The approach road was closed off and barricaded with wooden sawhorses, banks of blinking amber lights, and a mobile electronic message board that warned: road closed.

Anyone can push a wooden sawhorse out of the way, or squeeze in between to get onto the parade route.

Beginning in the 1980s, steel barriers gradually took the place of wooden sawhorses at many events, including major holiday parades in New York City.

"Once I apply the violet pigments with a brush, the surface will become gold," he said, gazing intently at the 10-by-16-foot paintings resting on wooden sawhorses.

His selection from the lock-box menu was an adolescent female, tied across a padded wooden sawhorse.

The road was blocked by two wooden sawhorses!

Cold Angel slid the saddle--little more than a wooden sawhorse with oilskin stretched over it--off his pony, which was protected by coarse blankets.

Just a few feet away in the South Mountain Arena corridor, a crowd had gathered behind a wooden sawhorse.

As the marchers approached the barrier of wooden sawhorses behind which the police waited, they slowed.

A herd of wooden sawhorses cordoned off the block surrounding the Tower, making the hustle and bustle of Fifth Avenue seem a world away.