If you are not familiar with the Gimbels Thanksgiving Day Parade, let me take you to an article by Keith Kofsky, Esq. titled “History of Philadelphia’s Thanksgiving Day Parade” that appeared ...

Started in 1920, Philadelphia’s Thanksgiving Day parade (originally sponsored by Gimbels!) has been delighting Philadelphians with music, floats, performances and giant balloons for over a century.

Live coverage of the Thanksgiving Day Parade will begin on Thursday with a pre-parade special at 8:30 a.m. and the kickoff at 9 a.m. Viewers in the Philadelphia area can watch the parade on ...

6abc Dunkin' Thanksgiving Day Parade in Philadelphia kicked off the holiday season. ... I brought his brother and I used to come when it was on Market Street and we watched Santa go up into Gimbels." ...

The tradition of Thanksgiving Day parades started with the Gimbels Department Store in Philadelphia in 1920. Louis Bamberger, the owner of Bamberger’s Department Store in Newark, New Jersey ...

While Macy’s wasn’t the nation’s first Thanksgiving Day spectacle—that honor goes to Philadelphia’s Gimbels parade, launched four years earlier—over time it set the standard for what ...