It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was originally established as a promotional tool for the iconic department store. Back in 1924 (the year of the first ...

Macy’s was not the first U.S. department store to hold a parade on Thanksgiving Day. In 1920, Gimbels held a parade in Philadelphia, featuring store employees dressed in costume escorting Santa ...

Getty Images; photograph colorization by Dana Keller That first parade held on a relatively mild Thanksgiving Day in 1924, was extolled as “a marathon of mirth” in splashy newspaper ads.

The weekly, citywide, yearlong celebration, organized by the Philadelphia Historic District 250th Committee, will honor ...

Conservative pro-family activists have a new boycott target: the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Right-wing group One Million Moms has its sights set, for the first time, on the Broadway-loving ...

NEW YORK — The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade marched, soared and roared into its second century on Thursday despite a drenching rain and a brief disruption from pro-Palestinian demonstrators.

There are several ways to donate and help send the Sounds of Dyn-O-Mite Marching Band to the Macy's Day Parade for the first time in history.

Here's a complete guide to the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade this year, including the celebrity performers joining headliner Cher Skyler Caruso is a Writer and Reporter of PEOPLE Digital ...

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade takes flight in pandemic times The balloons were in the sky and the marching bands took to the streets for the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday.