Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade - 1945

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MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE - 1945
Friends and family-
This home movie is of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1945 in New York City. World War II had just ended several months earlier. The parade had been suspended the prior 3 years due to the need for rubber and helium in the war effort. The movie was filmed by my grandfather, William Whitman, Sr. on 16mm film, and the music is by my daughter, Anna Haas.
I hope you enjoy...
David
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26 ноя 2014

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@ensetaro 7 лет назад

I was living in NYC at that time and went with my parents to see the parade. I was 4 years old!

@davidshebiro3562 4 года назад

Watching this on Thanksgiving Night 2019 - it was a different world for better or for worse, a place which the majority knew the meaning of right and wrong. This footage is so right, and the music perfectly accentuating the lost innocence of man.

@philipc7599 2 года назад

All the people watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade celebrate the end of World War II. It was an exciting victory. And we enjoyed peace and freedom in the United States. And after that we celebrated Veterans Day on November 11, 1945 before Thanksgiving. My family and I weren't born to see it, but this is a video montage that I'm watching. All people throughout the decades have good memories of the parade in 1945. That's what I learn.

@ebt12 3 года назад

Thanksgiving must have been extra special that year, the biggest war the world had ever seen was over.

@ellenrobison9717 6 лет назад

Thank you so much for posting this. So lovely to be able to see a parade that happened before I did. Just watched it with my 92 yr old mother. Memories for her. My dad was in the Navy at that time.

@Kinseydsp 7 лет назад

Such a much simpler time and People were so much more down to earth! Thank you so much for these wonderful movies!

@marylivingstone9815 6 лет назад

Yeah, I feel the same way about the 1970s because I am getting old and you always look back and think your young years were a more simple time. But then I remember the history of the 60s and 70s and realize I am kidding myself.

@dualkids601 3 года назад

This made me cry. How beautiful,

@Jonathanbroder 6 лет назад

Nice. Thanks for posting. I like looking at people's faces. So long ago (before I was born) always seems like it never really existed. But you look at faces, especially because these are in color, and it makes it so real.

@brithgob1620 5 лет назад

The photographer was standing on Central Park West, across the street from The Dakota, between West 72nd and 73rd Street. This was only three months after the end of World War II. The Japanese signed the surrender documents on the USS Missouri on September 2 1945.

@eighthoneknows8273 6 лет назад

I remember as a kid , watching the parade with officer Joe Bolton . Does anyone else remember him ? I loved his voice and his face !

@4021971 8 лет назад

A much simpler time. I wish we were like this today.

@mkl62 6 лет назад

After a three year suspension due to the USA being at war, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was held again. I have heard that the biggest reason was because the military needed the rubber that was used on the balloons. It was very bittersweet for my mother and grandparents as she lost her oldest brother (their oldest child) on April 1, 1945, in Germany. But I thank him for his service & sacrifice for his country.

@davidw.haasm.d.7502 6 лет назад

mkl62 thanks for the info

@mkl62 6 лет назад

What made it worse was the fact that my aunt (sister to them) got married on that same day. A few weeks later, a letter arrived from the Department of the Army informing them of his death.

@buckeyefangirl1976 3 года назад

Thank you for sharing this. I'm 65 and still love this parade. Happy Thanksgiving.

@michaelwilliams2865 6 лет назад

You have the most precious and cherished memory right here. One that not a lot of people have. Wow!!! Words can't explain. is this the real color? It feels like it was only recorded yesterday. I became choked up while watching it. NYC and America was so different then. I was thinking about my family all so young at that time.

@davidw.haasm.d.7502 6 лет назад

Michael Williams yes it's the original color - glad you liked it

@eighthoneknows8273 6 лет назад

I had the same reaction . My NYC is so different now , and my parents are gone . Seems like the whole world is deteriorated into something very ugly . 😥

@bcc63 3 года назад

This video warms my heart and also makes me a little sad. My grandparents had just gotten married around this time... guess i'm just missing them! Thank you for this wonderful film!

@cometopapa5907 6 лет назад

Beautiful song and voice, so nostalgic.

@davidw.haasm.d.7502 6 лет назад

cometopapa I couldn’t agree more

@LandondeeL 5 лет назад

2:30 For the next year, the clown balloon was changed into a ball player, as anyone who has seen 'Miracle on 34th Street' knows!

@Nikkii199045 3 года назад

I know

@joelmaqueira4851 3 года назад

BEAUTIFUL! THANKS FOR SHARING!

@sylviahacker6695 6 лет назад

Love the music. It's a perfect fit with the video.

@davidw.haasm.d.7502 6 лет назад

Sylvia Hacker thanks!

@robertmeyer5094 3 года назад

love it

@goombabear 2 года назад

That is good quality film.

@davidw.haasm.d.7502 3 месяца назад

Yes it is. David

@ronshapley5718 5 лет назад

beautiful......thanks for posting... Your daughter is a recording artist ??

@superpikachutyler4439 5 лет назад

Marching band Boat Clowns War cars Ice cream Turkey Marching band Spinning cards Bicycles Scarecrow Clowns Pumpkin patch Mammoth pumpkin Liberty bell Native American head Shed Bobo the hobo Trampoline Acrobat Animal cage The wizard of oz Rocket Marching band Teddy bear Humpty Dumpty Rocking horse Santa

@davidw.haasm.d.7502 3 года назад

Here’s the official video of FIND YOUR HOME

@poetry3725 9 лет назад

Despite the atrocities of WWII life appeared more simple

@davidw.haasm.d.7502 9 лет назад

Poetry - well said...

@mikenewton474 6 лет назад

The war was over when this footage was shot....Notice the display of flags on the one float...Back then, there were only 48 stars in the flag. People had a lot more to be thankful for back then.

@Dulcimertunes 2 года назад

No parades 1942-44. First post war parade 💕

@Nikkii199045 3 года назад

THE TEDDY BEAR BALLOON VERSION 1 IN COLOR! 3:27

@jamesrobiscoe1174 2 года назад

By simpler I take it to mean less complicated, more direct, with fewer diversions. Yes! In 1945, fifteen years of the Great Depression and the austerity of WWII, consumerism shot into high gear. The thrift and cordiality which had prevailed for a decade and a half were thrown off in favor of the so-called pride of possessions. In the war-recovered economy, industry boomed (returning soldiers needed JOBS!) and the country seemed pressed into being less about people and more about things.

@zacheryalderton7721 3 года назад

20th annual

@davidw.haasm.d.7502 3 года назад

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@arieliondotcom625 6 лет назад

The only "simpler" thing was knowing right and wrong because we still believed in GOD and didn't seek to defy Him by living in and endorsing perversity as "love" while accusing He Who is Love of being unloving.