Eaton’s Toronto Santa Claus Parade (1954)

[@davidlewis1815]

George Feyer was the artist who did the "Pick a Letter" series of cartoons that ran on CFTO (now CTV Toronto) when I was little.

[@rontyler1234]

Also known as Mile a minute George...

[@jamesgraham8584]

It's amazing that you can go back in time and see the Santa Claus Parade from Eaton's in Toronto Eaton's was a good store I missed it it's too bad they weren't around anymore they were a good store they had everything you could ask for the catalogues you don't order stuff and you do you know and it was just that good good of a store all was good but to go back and see the Santa Claus parade in Toronto back in the 50s it's awesome

[@rontyler1234]

Looks like University Avenue, in front of the US consulate?

[@kevinbutler1955NYC]

A few years later.."The Eaton's Santa Claus Parades"would be videotaped and seen in The USA on"The CBS TV All American Thanksgiving Day Parade Telecasts".

[@ztian2506]

Amazing

[@lazyorangehousecat9164]

This is Toronto. How did we all let it get destroyed?

[@siroptimistic]

The mini-skirt has long been thought to have been introduced to the fashion world in the mid-1960s during the era of the ‘Swinging Sixties’ in ‘Swinging London’, and popularized by British fashion models Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy. But here in the Eaton’s Toronto Santa Claus Parade of 1954 we see the mini-skirt more than a decade earlier worn by Toronto’s young women marching-majorettes at many times during the course of the parade (video times 13:00, 20:55, 24:15, 27:40). Perhaps we should change our view of pop-culture history and recognize that it was actually Toronto’s young women who introduced the mini-skirt to the world in the early 1950s.

[@adammsbarry]

whats with the cut at 18:15? what are you hiding from us?

[@adammsbarry]

im commenting because no one else will, and i just huffed peppermint oil