Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Vintage Detroit | America's Thanksgiving Parade

| Detroit, 1962 |

 Ever since I was a little girl, starting off Thanksgiving morning would not be complete without plopping myself in front of the tv to watch the Detroit Thanksgiving Parade, also known as America's Thanksgiving Parade.


| Detroit, undated |

Detroit's Thanksgiving parade was started in 1924 by the J. L. Hudson company.  Charles Wendel, Hudon's display director, got the idea after seeing the success of Toronto's Eaton's Santa Claus Parade.


| Detroit, 1973 |
Wendel also is responsible for one of the most iconic elements of the Detroit parade, large paper mache heads; which were inspired by those he had seen on a trip to Europe.


| Detroit, 1935 |
America's Thanksgiving Parade is the second oldest in the States, tied with the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.


| Detroit, 1940s |

While the parade is now shown nationally to over 100 million viewers, it was first televised in 1948 to local viewers.


Which Thanksgiving Day parade do you watch?

11 comments:

Joanna said...

My father loved to go into the city for the Thanksgiving parade so we'd all go along and battle the cold:) I don't remember too much about the parades just the crowds and cold:) When I am in Michigan and able to shop at vintage stores or even online and I see an old Hudson label, I just love it. Such a sense of nostalgia for what Detroit once was.

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