Did you know that the first annual Thanksgiving Day parade was started by Macy's competitor Bernard Gimbel of the Gimbel's Department Store family in Philadelphia in 1920? It is the oldest Thanksgiving Day parade in the United States.
The Philadelphia parade helped inspire the creation of the Macy’s Christmas Parade in 1924, which later became the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
It was started by Macy’s immigrant employees, many of whom were first- or second-generation European immigrants. They wanted to celebrate Thanksgiving in the manner of the Old World holiday festivals and street parades they had grown up with.
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