The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is a time-honored tradition, but the annual holiday spectacle has changed a lot over the years.
In its 90-year-plus history, the parade has gone from a regional attraction featuring live animals and Macy’s employees to a time-honored tradition attended by 3.5 million people and watched by tens of millions more on TV and YouTube.
1924: The First Parade
Macy’s
The annual holiday parade got its start in 1920, featuring Macy’s employees in costume and animals from the Central Park Zoo. Animals were banned from participating in 1926, reportedly because they were frightening the children. The company then recruits puppeteer Tony Sarg to design the giant balloon characters the parade has been known for since.
1932: Balloon Meets Airplane
For the first few years of the parade, organizers would release some of the balloons into the air with attached instructions for how onlookers could exchange...
In its 90-year-plus history, the parade has gone from a regional attraction featuring live animals and Macy’s employees to a time-honored tradition attended by 3.5 million people and watched by tens of millions more on TV and YouTube.
1924: The First Parade
Macy’s
The annual holiday parade got its start in 1920, featuring Macy’s employees in costume and animals from the Central Park Zoo. Animals were banned from participating in 1926, reportedly because they were frightening the children. The company then recruits puppeteer Tony Sarg to design the giant balloon characters the parade has been known for since.
1932: Balloon Meets Airplane
For the first few years of the parade, organizers would release some of the balloons into the air with attached instructions for how onlookers could exchange...
- 11/23/2020
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Growing up, it was a tradition in our house to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade while mom got the turkey in the oven, but as my tastes turned to the horror side of the fence, interest in the annual event waned. This year, however, there's a new entrant designing a balloon who promises to bring a bit of spooky to the show: the one and only Tim Burton!
Per The New York Times next month the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will feature a new balloon designed by Tim Burton, the artist and filmmaker who has brought a Gothic sensibility to movies like Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands as well as his adaptations of Sweeney Todd, Alice in Wonderland, and the upcoming Dark Shadows.
“It’s such a surprise to be asked, and it was great,” Burton told the Times in a telephone interview from London. “It’s such...
Per The New York Times next month the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will feature a new balloon designed by Tim Burton, the artist and filmmaker who has brought a Gothic sensibility to movies like Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands as well as his adaptations of Sweeney Todd, Alice in Wonderland, and the upcoming Dark Shadows.
“It’s such a surprise to be asked, and it was great,” Burton told the Times in a telephone interview from London. “It’s such...
- 10/22/2011
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
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