Watch: Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade

In 1924, Macy's held its first parade but instead of focusing on Thanksgiving it was called Macy's Christmas Parade. The parade was held just by store employees and the hope was the celebration would influence customers to shop for the coming Christmas holiday.

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    1. Beautiful New York ,, Hallelujah. Happy Thanksgiving Day.
      Mary Mc ALL Palmer , ALASKA. Class of ‘57… Port Washington , Long Island. New York. Go Port Washington.

  1. To USA TODAY and the Associated Press reporter that covered this, thank you so much for your uninterrupted and de-monitized coverage of this years parade. TV stations around the country should take lessons from you on how to do this. Thank you again and Merry Christmas 🎄

    1. USA Today leading the way on a holiday tradition. Thank You for letting us enjoy the Parade without being drowned in advertising. Happy Holidays

    2. @beemayhemful n not to mention NBC cut away from Santa after 2 mins and had 6 mins of Mariah. I like Mariah but SANTA IS THE KING OF THE MACYS PARADE!

    3. @Alphawolf0 Yes. When we watch it on television we would like to see enough to feel immersed in the event so the enjoyment and happiness the parade brings to most is realized. Unfortunately someone else at the network sees an opportunity to exploit and monetize further an event we use to be able to watch uninterrupted for a longer periods of time. Happy Holidays

  2. Love the coverage (no commercials, lip synced performances, & theater commercials), just like being there. Happy Thanksgiving!

  3. I love the opportunity to watch the parade without all the ads. A real at the parade experience. However I would say that being fully zoomed in on people on the floats takes away from the experience. I’d like to see the full float and not be forced to just watch one person whom is riding on said float. If you wanted to zoom in to show who was on the float for a second or two and then zoom out to see the float that would’ve been better. Just a missed opportunity to be the best video of the parade. If I wanted to focus on the people on the floats I’d watch it on NBC or CBS but I really just wanted a better experience watching the parade in full and all the extreme zooming ruins seeing the floats.

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      Pressing the economics further, less than rich is most in debt, an the back bone of the rich, and the flesh and blood for the animal, All in the name of what, property values. The color of money makes people go wild (mad) an adds to its fire. Let me give it to you in other terms, terms you can understand. They cut it like Bolvin coca, Afghani opium and Libyan oil, cut like silver and gold. Lords that have strings tied to the money, an every dollar in its web, hooking the foolish fish in the sea into its financial threshold.
      Bending indexes, the color of money, dollars, dollar bills and currencies on a spectrum in a temple dimension, attracting interest . A twenty/eighty cut is knot well/fare, it cuts like a knife, a double edge sword, it gives with one and takes with two, we want face value, the whole in one, par , one over one, knot promises or the color of money, that s blinding you.
      ” O say can you see,” … the twilight…
      Blind and color blind? So cover your eyes, and listen,” and listen to your sub conscious maybe you’ll learn something” . Its a figment of your imagination that’s running wild like a bull, a shift to red , so let me give you the 20/20, the whole 9/1/1 doppler tax free fix, in the city that never sleeps. Its supply and demand. They build it up and take them down , and the penny is losing one for everyone made. The nickel cant hold its weight , but its losing, an its face value is deceiving the public eye, so save what you can .
      They cant afford it or don’t have it to give away, nor can they make anymore, Its coming from the blood that is spilling from the holes in ones pocket and clothing, and the bodies that are falling. Desire is working ten times harder for ten times less and buying things ten times over exhausting its horns and pleasures. At the end of the sale, and day , after all the hands have taken a pinch out of the dollar , dollar bill, one is paying with the bottom dollar, and by the time it gets home to its family, its taxed for the waste, so save what you can.
      Either way I, the self, put it , between the differences , it gives one the sum of the hole, the color of money and the same sum and truth ,the wholesumtruth. Now that the money can be made at home , it does not give one the right to cut it out of a sheet of metal and stamp it with a dye, or (DIO ?), ” O, Alice, your the Greatest “, its de-facing the value . ” Its not what your country can do for you , but what you can do for your country.” ” We the people”, put our trust in the government, ( each other), to provide honest scales and due process, but those who aren’t themselves are favoring one side, one side of the scale, the dark side, even though the wind is not for sale, it gives one direction and shows the way , an only a fool doesn’t pay attention to signs, lining its pockets , the holes in its clothing with the blood on its hands. Those who live by it , live by the dollar , dollar bill , fall by it, and those who trust in it, give its power and right over their lives, ( soul) . ” O, say can you see”
      The only one who cares for a title, is lost and needs to be found, an in need of a personality, the individual, and needed to be served with love and sincerity. The servant , common worker, the confidence and capital from whom has a title paid for, is free of, and develops its independence from a co-dependent sovereign and shadow government. ” O say, can you see”… the twilight…
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      We were given stripes , color and life , light for a conscious , a lamp of knowledge (law) , a guiding light, and land to harvest. The brave to boycott, pro/test, protest in writing; Declare Independence, and reveal the truth and reap whats sowed. Fear not, ” fear only fear it-self “, “we are not left to live under ourselves ” , we have been brought to consciousness , life, and Yahweh ( Jah e vah ) (יהוה ) . Compose yourselves, bring yourselves together, because no matter how much one celebrates it will not raise the dead, nor bring back those who have passed, and neither free one from the misery and trial its been living.
      ” O , say can you see……” ” The fault is not in the stars , but in ourselves.”

      …….made in usa……

  4. Best parade coverage this year! It felt like I was there watching it myself. No annoying commentators opinions. No cutting away to interview anyone.

    1. And on this video of the parade, we get to see many things the tv does not show because they feel the need to put commercials on,,,I especially love seeing all the people dressed up and the smaller floats and the balloon handlers as well! ☺️🥰🌈

    2. @Rita we were watching nbc with Savanna and Hoda,, ..I do enjoy their interviews with people, but they have too much broadway stuff on, so thats why we like to watch it on youtube at the same time☺️🌈

  5. I love this! I feel like I’m there and get to see everything. No cheesy news anchors, no selective shots or ditzy performances. Just raw parade….I love it 😀 😍

  6. We switched to this stream when a couple of people on Twitter suggested it. A LOT more enjoyable to watch than the network TV coverage (especially CBS). We caught stuff in the parade that were skipped in the coverage. Thank you for the video!

  7. Thank you for showing the parade my daughter really wanted to see the balloons and was sad when ABC kept cutting away. We found this and I hope you do it every year. ❤️

  8. Less than 2 minutes in, and we hear one police officer say, “She had a seizure and wasn’t acting right.” And a Happy Thanksgiving to you too, officer.

    1. I heard that. He is observant. We’re I that person, it would be comforting to know he could get me out of that crowd and to an ER for help!

  9. This brings back memories of watching the parades with my grandmother as a child. Will always love the Macy’s parades

  10. Looks like PERFECT Parade weather! When we marched it was 13° and my fingers and lips almost froze to my trumpet! It was brutal!!

  11. A beautiful sunny day in New York and a spectacular parade! Very impressive marching bands and air balloons with fantastic coverage by USA Today! Happy Thanksgiving Day!

  12. Thank you for showing the parade my daughter really wanted to see the balloons and was sad when ABC kept cutting away. We found this and I hope you do it every year. ❤

  13. How great to see the Macy’s parade at street level, just like I was really there! And the Grogu (AKA Baby Yoda) balloon, chasing his favorite shifter knob toy, was so cool! Big Grogu/Mandalorian/classic SW fan here, lol! Thank you for the footage! Happy Thanksgiving, everyone, and Season’s Greetings to the world.

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