World of Tomorrow
Then, in 1934, Mickey Mouse made his debut as a balloon, and the parade had become so large that at any given point along the route, it took an hour for all the performers to pass.
By 1937, it included seven different musical organizations, featured twenty-one floats and balloons, including Pinocchio with his gigantic nose, and more than four-hundred costumed marchers.
But this year, amid the strangeness of ‘Franksgiving’, a newly-coined portmanteau of Franklin and Thanksgiving, or called by some the ‘Democratic Thanksgiving Day’, despite the debut of a Superman balloon, the favorite had been the Tin Man, a full six stories tall and straight off of the screen of Wizard of Oz. And as always,
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