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By Erika Enigk
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hanksgiving is
almost here. Across
the country, people
will be eating turkey
and mashed potatoes and
watching football and the
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day
Parade. But decades ago,
that was not the case.
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Thanksgiving
Santa Claus is still a big
part of the parade, it was
eventually named after
the holiday when it took
place — Thanksgiving.
The shopping season
If it sounds like the parade
was a clever way to advertise for Macy’s, it was. The
department store had just
expanded and wanted to
showcase its opening as the
“world’s largest store.” It
was also a clever way to get
people thinking about shopping for Christmas. In fact,
just a few years later, in
1932, the day after Thanksgiving became widely
known as the first day of the
Christmas shopping season.
The first parade
The Macy’s parade
(named for R.H. Macy &
Co., the department store
now simply called Macy’s)
was originally a very small
event, starting in 1924, and
although it took place on
Thanksgiving Day, it was
dubbed the Macy’s Christmas Parade. There were no
Old and new
huge balloons; instead, the
The zoo animals didn’t
store designed floats feaenjoy the journey and did
turing nursery rhymes to
not remain a feature of
match its holiday window
the parade, but in 1927,
displays. Store employees
the first of the Macy’s
dressed in costumes to
parade’s famous balmarch the 6-mile parade
loons was brought in.
route, and the Central Park
The route was cut from 6
Zoo loaned several animals
miles to two-and-a-half,
for the event. The very
but more and more floats
last float held Santa Claus
and featured performers
himself, and at the end of
were brought in. The first
the parade, he sounded
parade had only enough
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a trumpet to unveil the
participants to span a few
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store window displays.
blocks, but nowadays, the
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parade takes three hours to
success, with 10,000 people watch. And if you thought
coming out to watch. The
the first audience of 10,000
store was so happy with the
people sounded impresturnout that they quickly
sive, more than 250,000
announced there would
go out to watch the parade
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ing year. And even though
others watching on TV.
A Kung Fu Panda balloon passes through Times Square at
the 2010 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in Manhattan.
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