(photo by ny daily news archive via getty images) a soldier is marching straight at the macy’s thanksgiving day parade in 1932.

Macy's thanksgiving parade vintage. These vintage pictures show just how much the parade has changed since then. A parade float from the macy’s thanksgiving day parade, 1927. Web here he is being watched by the crowd in 1925.

And don’t let that perspective fool you. Felix the cat, debuted in the thanksgiving day parade in 1927. A peanuts float is shown in the macy's thanksgiving day parade.

Web harold the fireman made his first appearance in 1948. Every year since 1924 the streets of new york have been dazzled by floats, marching bands. Web this blind pig is not a speakeasy.

Web fortunately, the parade’s organizers came up with an idea to fill the balloons with regular air, then hang them from large cranes that slowly toted them along the route. Pig is not really over empire state building. Web 24 quirky vintage photos show the nyc macy’s thanksgiving day parade the way it used to be published:

Some 2 million people are estimated to attend the traditional parade of balloons and marching bands. Web in the meantime, check out these macy’s vintage photos of some of the oddest, old balloons from the parade’s early years. Web at 9 a.m.

Take a look at floats and balloons through the years in our album of vintage macy’s thanksgiving day parade photos. Felix the cat balloon, 1927 photograph courtesy of macy’s,. Photo courtesy of macy's, inc.