Happy Thanksgiving 
everyone! We had such a great time watching the 96th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this morning and wanted to share some of the photos we took of the giant balloons while watching from the public viewing area. Did you know that 1924 is the year that Macy’s held its first parade and 10,000 came out to watch. That number of spectators has now grown to 3 million people! Even though the Parade is synonymous with Thanksgiving, did you know that the first parade was a Christmas 
event, but Macy’s who wanted to capitalize on the holiday shopping season, switched it to a promotional Thanksgiving Day festivity. Cleverly, merchandiser Fred Lazarus asked President Franklin Roosevelt to move Thanksgiving up a week early. We have the retail giant Macy’s to thank for convincing the President to permanently change the date of Thanksgiving in 1939.
everyone! We had such a great time watching the 96th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this morning and wanted to share some of the photos we took of the giant balloons while watching from the public viewing area. Did you know that 1924 is the year that Macy’s held its first parade and 10,000 came out to watch. That number of spectators has now grown to 3 million people! Even though the Parade is synonymous with Thanksgiving, did you know that the first parade was a Christmas event, but Macy’s who wanted to capitalize on the holiday shopping season, switched it to a promotional Thanksgiving Day festivity. Cleverly, merchandiser Fred Lazarus asked President Franklin Roosevelt to move Thanksgiving up a week early. We have the retail giant Macy’s to thank for convincing the President to permanently change the date of Thanksgiving in 1939.•
We hope you enjoy these photos and if you would like to see more, please check out our livestream video of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on our JamesandKarla YouTube channel. We even caught a marriage proposal on camera (she said yes!).
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Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 2022 LIVE 96th Annual NYC Parade w/ Hudson the Dog. Link below and direct link in our IG story too:
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