Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (NY) (Images of America)

Brand: Arcadia Publishing

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$14.01 - $15.31
UPC:
9780738535623
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
10/20/2004
Release Date:
10/25/2004
Author:
Robert M. Grippo;Christopher Hoskins
Language:
english
Edition:
Reprint Edition
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Product Overview

Let's have a parade is the phrase that begins a beloved American tradition, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. In 1924, employees of the R. H. Macy and Company store in Herald Square, many of whom were immigrants and first-generation Americans, chose to give thanks for their good fortune in a manner reminiscent of the festive parades held in their native countries. The excitement and praise from crowds lining the route that first year led Macy's to issue an immediate proclamation: the parade would become a tradition. Before the parade's first decade passed, Macy's welcomed the huge and spectacular helium character balloons that became its goodwill ambassadors.

Since then, the parade has become a world-famous treasure. Through rare and historic images, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade offers readers a chance to reminisce, explore, and delight in eighty years of this thoroughly American celebration.