5 Fun Facts About The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

The Holiday season officially kicks off in Manhattan, NY with the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and Santa Claus riding down Sixth Avenue. Millions of people will once again kick off Thanksgiving by watching the parade from the city or the comfort of their homes. Below are 5 fun and strange facts about the parade.

• Santa Claus has been the finale of the parade every year except for in 1933. That particular year, he led the parade.
• The parade movie scenes in the 1947 holiday classic, “Miracle on 34th Street,” are actual shots of the 1946 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
• Since 1968, there have been seven different Snoopy balloons in the parade’s history, the most for any one character. There has been “Flying Ace Snoopy,” “Astronaut Snoopy” and even “Millennium Snoopy.”
• When the first parade was held on Thanksgiving Day in 1924 it was called the “Macy’s Christmas Parade.”
• In 1924 the parade featured live animals including elephants however starting with the 1927 parade, the live animals were out and were replaced with inflatable animals.

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