Oh sure they’re all colorful now. Big brightly-colored balloons. Floats with popular children’s show characters. But as I looked back in our archives of some of the photos from the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade from the early days, it was kind of gloomy and creepy!

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  Total nightmare fuel. From the 60s, Alice and the White Rabbit in the Thanksgiving Parade in New York.

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  Crowds watching the Thanksgiving Parade in 1961 near Times Square, New York.

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  I'd be weirded out too kid.
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  Mad Magazine's Alfred E. Neuman's oversized head... creepy.

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  Imagine how scary Bluto must've been.

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  Even Popeye looks menacing.
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  Tell me the young kids weren't crying tears of terror when they saw this coming.

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  Walking pigs... creepy.

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