Unseen Legend Behind The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Floats



John Cheney has worked at the Macy’s Parade Studio as a carpenter for more than 40 Thanksgiving Day parades. NBC News’ Joe Fryer shares more about John’s creations over the years.

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10 comments

  1. NBC had the vegetable from the White House call in. I mean his wife called in. You know Potato Joe is too
    brain dead to even make a call.

  2. FIRST THANKSGIVING & NOW !!

    The pilgrims held their first Thanksgiving

    At Plymouth in October 1621.

    The bitter winter of 1620, was over

    With a loss of many father, mother, daughter or son.

    Life for survivors was much better now

    As a good harvest improved what was rationed

    Settlers enjoyed good health and prosperity

    As homes were raised from the logs they fashioned.

    They walked unafraid and safely in the woods

    For they had made peace with the Indians.

    After the signing a long-lasting treaty

    Natives and Pilgrims shared the land as friends.

    Sending four men to shoot waterfowl and wild turkeys

    The Pilgrims decreed a holiday of good fortune

    A chief was invited who brought 90 braves

    And five deer to increase the portion.

    It was an open-air roast and festival

    Held along the north bank of Town Brook.

    Where there were games of skill, chance and dance

    While everyone gorged on the feast they cooked.

    From then on Thanksgiving spread through the colonies

    Though each region chose its own date.

    Till in 1789 President Washington proclaimed

    November 26 a day to give thanks and celebrate.

    The theme of Thanksgiving has always been the same.

    Though its date has changed many times.

    A day for giving and remembering the less fortunate

    Expressing thankfulness with our prayers, hearts and minds.

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  3. Why can't I watch the parade lie on here. Everything is saying you can yet I don't find it.

  4. Thanks NBC for making me feel like I live in a foreign country for Thanksgiving.
    Pathetic. Two Thums Down.
    👎👎

  5. lHappy Thanksgiving Everyone ! Whatever happened to actually annoyncing each band and float?

  6. All I see (every year) are Liberal / Democrat 🤡s…👍🏼

  7. He has to be such a winner for them to keep him for that long

  8. Big events happening in the next week including The World Cup in Qatar, The Thanksgiving NFL Game between The Dallas Cowboys, and The New York Giants, The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and The ACC Championship game between Clemson, and North Carolina in Charlotte.

  9. Shout out to George Floyd on 912 days of sobriety. It took some tough love but he did it. Say his name liberals! Where’s Jackie?