I was living in NYC at that time and went with my parents to see the parade. I was 4 years old!
@davidshebiro35625 жыл бұрын
Watching this on Thanksgiving Night 2019 - it was a different world for better or for worse, a place which the majority knew the meaning of right and wrong. This footage is so right, and the music perfectly accentuating the lost innocence of man.
@hollymorales7444Ай бұрын
Thank you so much for sharing this lovely video of the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade
@ellenrobisonfrost97177 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for posting this. So lovely to be able to see a parade that happened before I did. Just watched it with my 92 yr old mother. Memories for her. My dad was in the Navy at that time.
@Kinseydsp7 жыл бұрын
Such a much simpler time and People were so much more down to earth! Thank you so much for these wonderful movies!
@marylivingstone98157 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I feel the same way about the 1970s because I am getting old and you always look back and think your young years were a more simple time. But then I remember the history of the 60s and 70s and realize I am kidding myself.
@philipc75992 жыл бұрын
All the people watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade celebrate the end of World War II. It was an exciting victory. And we enjoyed peace and freedom in the United States. And after that we celebrated Veterans Day on November 11, 1945 before Thanksgiving. My family and I weren't born to see it, but this is a video montage that I'm watching. All people throughout the decades have good memories of the parade in 1945. That's what I learn.
@tootiejamba21 күн бұрын
This is nice. Thanks for giving us this insight into the world right after the War.
@HeresWhatJonathanSaid7 жыл бұрын
Nice. Thanks for posting. I like looking at people's faces. So long ago (before I was born) always seems like it never really existed. But you look at faces, especially because these are in color, and it makes it so real.
@dualkids6014 жыл бұрын
This made me cry. How beautiful,
@buckeyefangirl19764 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this. I'm 65 and still love this parade. Happy Thanksgiving.
@eighthoneknows82737 жыл бұрын
I remember as a kid , watching the parade with officer Joe Bolton . Does anyone else remember him ? I loved his voice and his face !
@michaelwilliams28657 жыл бұрын
You have the most precious and cherished memory right here. One that not a lot of people have. Wow!!! Words can't explain. is this the real color? It feels like it was only recorded yesterday. I became choked up while watching it. NYC and America was so different then. I was thinking about my family all so young at that time.
@davidw.haasm.d.75027 жыл бұрын
Michael Williams yes it's the original color - glad you liked it
@eighthoneknows82737 жыл бұрын
I had the same reaction . My NYC is so different now , and my parents are gone . Seems like the whole world is deteriorated into something very ugly . 😥
@brithgob16206 жыл бұрын
The photographer was standing on Central Park West, across the street from The Dakota, between West 72nd and 73rd Street. This was only three months after the end of World War II. The Japanese signed the surrender documents on the USS Missouri on September 2 1945.
@bcc634 жыл бұрын
This video warms my heart and also makes me a little sad. My grandparents had just gotten married around this time... guess i'm just missing them! Thank you for this wonderful film!
@ebt123 жыл бұрын
Thanksgiving must have been extra special that year, the biggest war the world had ever seen was over.
@cometopapa59076 жыл бұрын
Beautiful song and voice, so nostalgic.
@davidw.haasm.d.75026 жыл бұрын
cometopapa I couldn’t agree more
@40219719 жыл бұрын
A much simpler time. I wish we were like this today.
@mkl627 жыл бұрын
After a three year suspension due to the USA being at war, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was held again. I have heard that the biggest reason was because the military needed the rubber that was used on the balloons. It was very bittersweet for my mother and grandparents as she lost her oldest brother (their oldest child) on April 1, 1945, in Germany. But I thank him for his service & sacrifice for his country.
@davidw.haasm.d.75027 жыл бұрын
mkl62 thanks for the info
@mkl627 жыл бұрын
What made it worse was the fact that my aunt (sister to them) got married on that same day. A few weeks later, a letter arrived from the Department of the Army informing them of his death.
@sylviahacker66957 жыл бұрын
Love the music. It's a perfect fit with the video.
@davidw.haasm.d.75027 жыл бұрын
Sylvia Hacker thanks!
@joelmaqueira48514 жыл бұрын
BEAUTIFUL! THANKS FOR SHARING!
@LandondeeL6 жыл бұрын
2:30 For the next year, the clown balloon was changed into a ball player, as anyone who has seen 'Miracle on 34th Street' knows!
@Nikkii1990453 жыл бұрын
I know
@robertmeyer50944 жыл бұрын
love it
@goombabear3 жыл бұрын
That is good quality film.
@davidw.haasm.d.75029 ай бұрын
Yes it is. David
@ronshapley57186 жыл бұрын
beautiful......thanks for posting... Your daughter is a recording artist ??
@davidw.haasm.d.75024 жыл бұрын
Here’s the official video of FIND YOUR HOME
@poetry372510 жыл бұрын
Despite the atrocities of WWII life appeared more simple
@davidw.haasm.d.750210 жыл бұрын
Poetry - well said...
@mikenewton4747 жыл бұрын
The war was over when this footage was shot....Notice the display of flags on the one float...Back then, there were only 48 stars in the flag. People had a lot more to be thankful for back then.
@superpikachutyler44395 жыл бұрын
Marching band Boat Clowns War cars Ice cream Turkey Marching band Spinning cards Bicycles Scarecrow Clowns Pumpkin patch Mammoth pumpkin Liberty bell Native American head Shed Bobo the hobo Trampoline Acrobat Animal cage The wizard of oz Rocket Marching band Teddy bear Humpty Dumpty Rocking horse Santa
@Dulcimertunes3 жыл бұрын
No parades 1942-44. First post war parade 💕
@Nikkii1990453 жыл бұрын
THE TEDDY BEAR BALLOON VERSION 1 IN COLOR! 3:27
@jamesrobiscoe11743 жыл бұрын
By simpler I take it to mean less complicated, more direct, with fewer diversions. Yes! In 1945, fifteen years of the Great Depression and the austerity of WWII, consumerism shot into high gear. The thrift and cordiality which had prevailed for a decade and a half were thrown off in favor of the so-called pride of possessions. In the war-recovered economy, industry boomed (returning soldiers needed JOBS!) and the country seemed pressed into being less about people and more about things.
@zacheryalderton77214 жыл бұрын
20th annual
@arieliondotcom6257 жыл бұрын
The only "simpler" thing was knowing right and wrong because we still believed in GOD and didn't seek to defy Him by living in and endorsing perversity as "love" while accusing He Who is Love of being unloving.