Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade by Robert M. Grippo and Christopher Hoskins (Paperback)

Book Description:

"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.

• Author(s): Robert M. Grippo and Christopher Hoskins
• ISBN: 9780738535623
• # of Pages: 144
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• # of Images: 200

100% made in the U.S.A. by Arcadia Publishing in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.