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Sunday, November 26, 2023

The 2023 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

I no longer brave the elements and the crowds to attend the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade but it happily goes on just the same without me. Here is a small sampling of photos courtesy of Uki and Friend who did not shrink from the festive multitude or the mild November weather.

Bluey

Spongebob Squarepants & Gary

Sinclair's Dino

Celebration Gator

Leo

Goku

Magic Meets the Sea

Stuart the Minion

Uncle Dan

Elf Pets

Pikachu & Eevee

Heartwarming Holiday Countdown

Palace of Sweets

Macy's Singing Christmas Tree

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023

A Macy's Ad . . . and a William Steig Cartoon

A 1943 ad for Macy's crudely imitates The New Yorker's well-known cartoon style without employing any of its well-known cartoonists. A wife awakens to her bedside alarm which is set for six a.m. Her husband turns his head towards her and says, "Can't they open Macy's in the morning without your help?" The advertising copy informs us that Macy's opens at 9:30. The husband, we don't need to know, is named Egmont. His value-hunting wife is just "The little woman."

The New Yorker had a reputation for keeping its advertising and editorial content completely separate, and usually it did. Six years later, whether it was done knowingly or not (almost certainly it was not), cartoonist William Steig revisited the ad's scenario in his own published New Yorker cartoon. Steig demonstrated why Macy's should have hired him on the first go round.

"Macy's is closed!"

William Steig

The New Yorker, June 4, 1949, p. 22

A floral spot by Suba, a cartoon by Alan Dunn, and an advertisement from Macy's

https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1943-01-16/flipbook/046/

Cartoons by William Steig and Alan Dunn

https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1949-06-04/flipbook/022/

Alan Dunn
The New Yorker, June 4, 1949, p. 23

Floral spot drawing

Susanne Suba

The New Yorker, January 16, 1943, p. 46

"I have a message for you here somewhere, sir,

from field headquarters."

Alan Dunn

The New Yorker, January 16, 1943, p. 46

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Friday, November 25, 2022

The 2022 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

A quick check of the blog archives reveals that it has been twelve years since I attended the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and six years since I visited the balloon inflation. Any reasonable person would conclude that I have officially retired from parade going. Fortunately, three million other people still do go and one of them, my friend Uki, provided me with some photographs for which I am very grateful. These pictures were taken at Columbus Circle as the parade turned from Central Park West onto Central Park South—while I watched on TV at home.