Interestingly, the parade's signature balloons began as a solution to a problem.
The events at the first three years featured not floating fantasy creatures, but real ones like tigers, elephants, camels and donkeys from the Central Park Zoo.
Instead of entertaining the thousands of children watching, the animals scared them. So organizers in 1927 experimented with a new star: Felix the Cat, oversized and full of air, floating feet above the ground.
Now each giant balloon requires around 90 tether-holding handlers to string them along.
ARMED COPS REMAINS ON EDGE
New York Police Department increased security Thursday along the parade route as the parade came after a truck killed eight people when it mowed down pedestrians near the World Trade Centre in October.
Police officers with assault weapons and portable radiation detectors were circulating among the crowds, sharpshooters were on rooftops and sand-filled city sanitation trucks were poised as imposing barriers to traffic at every cross street. Each of the 81 blocker trucks weigh 16 tons. Filled with sand, they weigh up to twice as much.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner James O'Neill have also encouraged spectators to say something if they saw something.
In his Thanksgiving message to the police department, O'Neill thanked the force for spending their holiday keeping others safe, particularly the thousands deployed at the parade.
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