Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 100th Anniversary
Santa Claus "passed triumphantly through the streets" of Manhattan in the first-ever Macy's parade - then known as the Macy's Christmas Parade - on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 27, 1924. (New York Daily News) A float depicting "Little Miss Muffet" takes part in the Macy's Christmas Parade on Thanksgiving Day in 1924. (Courtesy Macy's, Inc.)