The city of Hillsboro has officially claimed the new Guinness World Record for most people wearing Groucho Marx glasses in one place.At the city's Celebrate Hillsboro Presented by Intel Oregon event last summer, co-sponsored by United Way of the Columbia-Willamette and Intel Corp., 3,459 people gathered in the Hillsboro Civic Center plaza wearing the glasses, shattering the previous record of 1,750 set by Midwest City High School in Oklahoma.
In 2006, the city broke the record for most people wearing balloon hats -- 1,874 -- at Celebrate Hillsboro.
At the event this August, Hillsboro hopes to garneranother record, with the most people playing kazoos at once.
