Rather, I am going far back in time to the Gimbels Thanksgiving Day Parade that was considered a Santa Claus delivery system in its early years and originated here in Philadelphia in 1920.

Take that, other cities! Started in 1920, Philadelphia’s Thanksgiving Day parade (originally sponsored by Gimbels!) has been delighting Philadelphians with music, floats, performances and giant ...

Philadelphia’s annual Thanksgiving Day Parade, sponsored by a local ABC affiliate ... It was first organized in 1920 by Gimbels, a now-closed department store that was once Macy’s primary ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The oldest Thanksgiving Day parade in the nation kicked off ... on Market Street and we watched Santa go up into Gimbels." We saw other familiar faces, like singer CeCe ...

The first Thanksgiving Day Parade wasn’t intended for ... of Thanksgiving Day parades started with the Gimbels Department Store in Philadelphia in 1920. Louis Bamberger, the owner of Bamberger ...

“As a little girl growing up in New Jersey, the Thanksgiving Day parade was what you always tuned into and the balloons were, of course, the best part,” says Traci Paige Johnson, the co ...

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 ...