As families gather around TVs to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade waiting on the food being prepared, many tune in to watch the annual Thanksgiving parade. Quiet as it’s kept, however, the Thanksgiving Day Parade was started in 1920 by Louis Bamberger in Newark, New Jersey at the Bamberger’s store, and was transferred to New York by Macy’s in 1924.
During the Bamberger’s boom years, New Jersey occasionally outshined New York on Thanksgiving. In fact, the Santa sled that appeared in the 1947 Christmas classic, “Miracle on 34th Street” was actually on loan from Newark.
