With Thanksgiving just around the corner (and because Thanksgiving is slowly being squeezed out by Christmas), I'd like to do some Thanksgiving posts. Yea!!
As I've mentioned before, in previous blog posts, Thanksgiving is my FAVORITE holiday. Thanksgiving is a time to count our blessings, enjoy the company of family and friends, without all of the greed and stress that comes with the Christmas Season. Not that I don't like the Christmas Season. I do love the Christmas story, going to candlelight service, listening to Gene Autry's Christmas CD and hanging out with family. But let's face it folks...Christmas ain't what it used to be. It has become SO commercialized and over-the-top. Whatever happened to children getting one or two gifts from the Sears Wish Book. Whatever happened to an orange at the toe of a stocking being a treat!? (heck, with the price of oranges being what it is up here where I live, they are still a treat *wink*) Anyway...back to Thanksgiving.
This first post is actually about a Youtube video of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1940. The balloons are most interesting!
Take a minute to watch (it's only 2.5 minutes long).
I find the clown balloon a tad creepy and the Superman balloon looks mighty serious, but I'll bet the kids LOVED them! Apparently Superman had just come into being in 1938, so it's pretty impressive that he had a balloon already.
And of course, at the end, we see a Santa balloon and Santa in his sleigh!
The blog "The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit" did a neat article about the Superman Balloon HERE.
That's all for today. Until another time, have a happy vintage day!
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