Macy’s Thanksgiving Zoo Animals

Holidays, Thanksgiving, Totally Useless Thursday 1 Minute

Photo: Getty Images, parade in the late 1920s.

The first few years of the Macy’s Parade featured floats with puppets, celebrities, animals from the zoo, and Santa Clause. The traditional floats with balloons we all recognize today started 7 years after the initial Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in 1920.

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