Macy's legendary Thanksgiving Day parade takes place in New York: how it was
'28.11.2019'
Source: twitter.com/macys
In the largest city in America, a traditional parade of giant inflatable toys was held, organized by the Macy's retail chain. Downtown New York in front of crowd of thousands sailed Dozens of giant balloons. The details of the event are reported on its official page in Twitter.
MacN's Thanksgiving Parade took place in New York Traditionally, 93 giant balloons depicting cartoon characters and 16 balloons of various shapes - inflatable stars, dinosaurs, clowns, pumpkins float over Sixth Avenue on this day.
At this time, American families come to the central part of New York to plunge into the atmosphere of celebration and fun.
In 2019, the start of the event was marked by the appearance of a balloon in the shape of a Sponge Bob.
.@spongebob says, “I'M READY!” It's confirmed ... balloons will fly! #macysparade pic.twitter.com/AocX3g3bPw
- Macy's (@Macys) November 28, 2019
This gave the green light to take off to other balls. Among them are The Nutcracker, Poppin 'Fresh, Pokemon Pikachu, Smokey Bear, who made his debut as a giant balloon character in 1966, Saiyan Blue Goku, Green Grinch, the popular Elf, and, of course, Santa!
Look who's jingling all the way down 34th Street & ringing in the holidays! Hi? Santa! #holidaysarehere #macysparade pic.twitter.com/t75GT6LQDt
- Macy's (@Macys) November 28, 2019
The height of some of the largest inflatable figures reached 18 meters, the publication notes. TASS. The total length of the route is more than 3 kilometers.
Festive route is decorated with garlands, enveloping everything around with the spirit of celebration and magic.
.@BalsamHill's Deck the Halls float, featuring @idinamenzel & trimmed with more than 300 ft of garland, is decking the #MacysParade route with holiday spirit! @nbc pic.twitter.com/AuqZBmsSpb
- Macy's (@Macys) November 28, 2019
The audience is entertained by almost 1000 clowns, as well as orchestras, support groups of various schools and universities, dancers, acrobats, and other artists.
Spectators were entertained by the special parade team, which organized an unforgettable specialized performance. It included dancers and fans from the team of Spirit of America Dance Stars and Spirit of America Cheerdiers. These groups, in turn, brought together over 1200 the most successful young people, selected from different cities across the country.
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According to TASSIn 2019, New York City police gave permission to include balloons in the convoy only an hour before the parade. The fact is that raising balls into the air is allowed only at a speed of gusts of wind less than 15 m / s, and the weather in New York today was pretty windy.
"Each of the giant balls is accompanied by a representative of the organizing committee of the parade with an anemometer - a device for measuring wind speed - in order to determine the safe height for each ball in real time," the publication said.
Recall that such security measures were introduced after four spectators were injured in 1997 due to the fall of a ball caught on a lamppost.
This year, weather forecasters also predicted a very strong wind on the day of the parade, so its conduct was in question.
Sam and Guy's hammobile on @netflix's Green Eggs and Ham ball is big enough to fit 4 million eggs or 14,000 hams. #macysparade @nbc pic.twitter.com/4Cez8GGoDq
- Macy's (@Macys) November 28, 2019
Note that the mass spectacle has been organizing the Macy's department store retail chain since 1924. Since then, this action has symbolized the opening of the Christmas season for discounts in New York.
