Tony Sarg Elephant Light. As the procession of bands balloons and high-production spectacles makes its annual appearance. They escaped the canyons of tall buildings and soared away into the sky to the delight of the crowds.
The balloons were rubberized silk pumped up with oxygen. Tony Sarg created the first balloons for the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1927. In my image you can see a total of six people five that are enduring the first quarter of the Twenty-first Century and one in black and white who seems to be pleasantly preoccupied in the second quarter of the century past.
E is for Elephant Tony Sarg c1926 Vintage Alphabet Page Illustration Book is in Collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art TransferofTreasures.
On Thanksgiving Day in 1941 parade-goers would first lay their eyes upon the cumbersome lumbering elephant as he lashed his long-winded trunk and lurched his latifolius 39-foot body above the streets of New York City. A team of the stores employees held them aloft with poles. Tony Sarg created the first balloons for the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1927. Macys released some balloonatics after the parades.