re: Macy’s Day Parade

You watching NBC or CBS.

Dated a former Kilgore Rangerette in the 80's.



They are always in the Macy's Parade, and they always appear at the Cotton Bowl. Most of them want to be Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders when they grow up.

Barenaked Ladies

Them Canadians looked like they were freezing.

Thanksgiving Day 1999 I marched in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade as one of the team pulling the Snoopy balloon.

Snoopy was Macy’s holiday stuffed animal that year, and it was also Snoopy’s first year back in the parade. So we were the first big balloon of the parade.

At the end of the parade, we wound up at the Macy’s store where you see it end on television. And in a banquet room upstairs, Macy’s staff had a huge buffet dinner for all event staff.

And all I have other than the memories and photos, is a t-shirt with Snoopy and the parade emblem with the year.

Greatest Thanksgiving yet!

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Neat to see the blowing of the balloons the night before

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We lined up at 4am and started pumping up the balloons the year I marched in the parade. IIRC it took about an hour, at least, to get the balloon off the ground.

Also, it was cold that year and the wind was blowing. But controlling that massive balloon against the wind as we turned from a street without wind onto a street with gusting winds kept us plenty warm.