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In New York City, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (often erroneously referred to as the "Macy's Day Parade") is held annually every Thanksgiving Day from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Macy's flagship store in Herald Square. The parade features parade floats with specific themes, scenes from Broadway plays, large balloons of cartoon characters and TV personalities, and high school marching bands. The float that traditionally ends the Macy's Parade is the Santa Claus float. This float is a sign that the Christmas season has begun. Thanksgiving parades also occur in many cities such as the 6abc Ikea Thanksgiving Day Parade in Philadelphia (which claims the oldest parade), the McDonald's Thanksgiving Parade in Chicago (carried by WGN-TV and WGN America), the America's Hometown Thanksgiving Parade in Plymouth (covered by WHDH-TV), the H-E-B Holiday Parade in Houston (televised by KHOU-TV), the America's Thanksgiving Parade in Detroit (where it is the only major parade of the year, televised on WDIV-TV), the Ameren St. Louis Thanksgiving Parade (aired on KMOV) and the Fountain Hills Thanksgiving Parade, among various other cities. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania holds the Macy's-sponsored Celebrate the Season Parade on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, co-sponsored and televised by WPXI. Within the New York metropolitan area, the city of Stamford, Connecticut holds an alternative parade called the UBS Parade Spectacular (with different character balloons from the Macy's parade) the Sunday before Thanksgiving that has attracted over 250,000 people in recent years.
Several other parades have a loose association with Thanksgiving, thanks to CBS's now-discontinued All-American Thanksgiving Day Parade coverage. Parades that were covered during this era were the Aloha Floral Parade held in Honolulu, Hawaii every September, the Toronto Santa Claus Parade in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and the Opryland Aqua Parade (held from 1996 to 2001 by the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville); the Opryland parade was discontinued replaced by a taped parade in Miami Beach, Florida in 2002. A Disneyland parade was also featured on CBS until Disney purchased rival ABC.
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