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'None of y'all working 9 to 5': San Francisco shows up for Dolly Parton Day · Best of: Features

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  None of y'all working nine to five, San Francisco shows up for
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  Dolly Parton Day. This article is being
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  read by an automated voice generated by Everlett. Friday afternoon in downtown
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  San Francisco, hundreds of people gathered who were definitely not working nine
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  to five. That's because it was Dolly Day, a celebration of Dolly
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  Parton, that took over Union Square, with fans decked out with wigs,
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  rhinestones, and a boundless love for the country music star. The event
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  celebrated the Nine to Five Inches Singer, cleverly scheduled on nine twenty
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  fifth, exactly one month after Dolly Parton's death, marking the end of
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  one of the most storied careers in both music and philanthropy. Parton
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  became a global icon for not just her songs, but also her
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  unabashed love of flashy clothing, compassion and limitless sense of humor, all
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  of which was on display at Union Square. The event featured musical
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  performances from Thee likes of platinum selling artist Robbie Fitzsimmons playing Here
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  You Come Again, as well as San Francisco Country Strummer's The Old
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  Country, who opened with a rambunctious version of nine to five. None
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  of y'all working nine to five, are ya? We're all taking the
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  day off for Dolly Day, proclaimed the singer of the old country.
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  A Dali costume contest brought twenty entrants to the stage, with a
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  final face off between Drag Queen Dirty Carol and Lisa Zefina, ending
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  with a victory for Zefina. Dolly, Willet Rios, a retired SFPD officer,
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  and her friend Jeanine Dubois, a retired electrical worker, drove up to
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  San Francisco from Pacifica for the event, decked out in poofy wigs
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  with butterflies in their hair. I've been obsessed with Dolly since I
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  was a little girl. I have a dolly toilet, a dolly bathroom,
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  a dolly coffee table, everything dolly, and she Just happened to die
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  on my birthday too, said Willet Rios. I really didn't know how
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  it would affect me until she passed away. I cried and I
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  cried I listened back to her music, and the whole thing about
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  where we were in the seventies and our jobs, and how we
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  were relegated to certain work. I love the song just because I'm
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  a woman, and I've seen how that song has evolved, said Dubois.
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  Scroll down to see SF Gate photographer Lizzie Myers images from the
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  event.