![]() ![]() In 2007, the parade presented the first parade float with a built-in ice rink. ![]() In 2005, it had the most stars in history, as well as eight new balloons, more than ever before. An opening number paid tribute to the celebrities who had participated during its history. In 2004, the parade celebrated its 85th anniversary with new balloons and floats. 6abc is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company (since 1996), and thus, this parade benefits from access to Disney characters and personalities. They renamed the event as the 6abc Boscov's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Boscov's (a family-owned department store based in Reading, Pennsylvania) and WPVI (self-named "6abc" in its programs and promotions) therefore took over sponsorship. was unable to find a buyer for Gimbels in 1986, the department store chain liquidated the fate of the country's oldest parade was up in the air. The parade tradition continues today.Įnd of Gimbels Era Parade logo during Boscov's title sponsorship Block's example led to the founding of similar parades in other cities. The Santa Claus Parade in Peoria, Illinois, is held on the day after Thanksgiving and is the oldest, continuously held holiday parade in the country since 1887, under the sponsorship of Frederick Block and the Schipper & Block (later Block & Kuhl) Department Store. Gimbels emulated other holiday parades already in existence. The parade featured floats as marchers paraded down Market Street, with the finale consisting of Santa Claus arriving at the eighth-floor toy department at Gimbels by climbing the ladder of a Philadelphia Fire Department ladder truck. He had more than 50 store employees dressed in costume and sent to walk in their first Thanksgiving Day parade. Ellis Gimbel, one of the founders of Gimbels Department Stores, wanted his toy land to be the destination of holiday shoppers everywhere. The Gimbels department store sponsored the 1920 parade as the Gimbels Thanksgiving Day Parade it continued annually despite World War II. Like other parades of its type, it features balloons, floats, high school marching bands, and celebrities. The Philadelphia parade first started in 1920 and is considered the oldest Thanksgiving Day parade in the country. The Gimbels Thanksgiving Day Parade was held until the department store closed operations in 1986.įollowing Gimbels closure, it would be known as the 6abc Dunkin' Donuts Thanksgiving Day Parade, 6abc IKEA Thanksgiving Day Parade, 6abc Boscov's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Channel 6 Mellon PSFS Thanksgiving Day Parade, and the Channel 6 MasterCard Thanksgiving Day Parade. ![]() It is currently the oldest Thanksgiving parade in the United States, having been held through the Great Depression & World War II, and was created by Gimbels department store in 1920. The 6abc Dunkin' Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual Thanksgiving Day parade held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is presently sponsored and aired by ABC owned-and-operated television station WPVI-TV, through a co-sponsorship agreement with restaurant chain Dunkin'. ![]() Parade logo, introduced with IKEA's sponsorship of the parade in 2008 Parade logo with Dunkin' Donuts co-sponsorship introduced in 2011Ģ0th and JFK Boulevard, across JFK Boulevard to & around Philadelphia City Hall across the Benjamin Franklin Parkway to the Philadelphia Museum of Art ![]()
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