What is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?🦃

The following video provides a brief history of the parade which occurs every Thanksgiving Day in New York City. Teachers, find us on TpT: bit.ly/2fSXb3V
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Each year, families across the country begin their Thanksgiving Day by watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. How did this yearly tradition start?
In the 1920s, there were many immigrants living in large cities such as Boston, Chicago, and New York City. These immigrants were proud of their new American home and desperately wanted to participate in the country’s holidays and customs.
So, in 1924, the Macy’s Department Store (which employed many immigrants) decided to hold a parade in honor of the Thanksgiving holiday. A mix of employees and hired performers marched through the streets of New York City. The parade featured many of the elements of the modern spectacle, including floats, performers, and live animals. At its conclusion, Santa Claus was introduced to the crowd while sitting on a balcony above the Macy’s store. Over 250,000 people attended this first parade, and Macy’s instantly declared that it would be an annual event.
Three years later, in 1927, an important feature was introduced. That year, crowds first saw the large balloons, usually in the shape of cartoon characters. The first resembled Felix the Cat, who was a popular animated figure of the silent film era. Many different characters have appeared over the years, but the reigning champion is Snoopy. Snoopy has regularly been featured as a balloon since 1968, and has been represented by six different balloons during that time.
Originally, at the conclusion of the parade, these balloons were released into the air. The balloons would travel for several days before losing air and landing. Address labels were sewn to the balloons, and those who found them could mail them back to Macy’s and receive a gift.
The parade continued to become more and more popular throughout the 1930s. The parade route was expanded, and eventually more than one million people would line the streets to watch the parade go by.
In the early 1940s, the parades were cancelled because of World War II. It was determined that the rubber used to create the parade balloons would be better used for the war efforts. Therefore, from 1942-1944 there was no parade.
The first parade to be broadcast on television was in 1948. Every parade since that year has been seen on television by an ever-expanding audience. To this day, it is broadcast yearly by both NBC and CBS.
Today, it is estimated that over 44 million Americans watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade each year.

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Nice video.
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Thank you for this video! We read Balloons Over Broadway and then watched this.

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Very interesting, thank you

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You are very welcome!

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As a child, I would visit Santa every year at Macy’s Herald Square, but I’ve never been to the parade. Have only seen it on TV

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List of balloons. Teddy bear 1:30 tin man 1:33 the cat 1:41 NOT FELIX.

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I'm not from the States but I knew the event exists because of the American band Green Day.

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It's hard not to fall asleep during this thing.

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I hope you mean the parade and not the video. :-)

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@@accent77 lol now its 2 hours this year

[@ChrisDrummond99]

Well done. One important omission is that Macy's President Herbert Strauss copied the idea from Philadelphia’s Gimbel Brothers Department Store, which held the first Thanksgiving parade, complete with a fireman dressed as Santa, in 1920. Seems strange to mention Boston & Chicago, but omit the pioneer city of Philadelphia.

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I also agree there thanks for the video now I know the history of the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade. Especially when NBC first started broadcasting the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parad on Thursday November 26th 1953. And I can tell you from experience just watching those parades on NBC over those years kind of makes you wonder where has it been over the last 68 years. But this year was it 69th year broadcasting the parade. Next year NBC will reach a milestone. 70 years of broadcasting excellence when broadcasting the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. But as a matter of fact that's what happens when you have the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade being celebrated over the past 95 years. But I can't wait until Thursday November 24th 2022 when the 96th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade begins. And NBC will start broadcasting their 70th edition of that parade.

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