Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade: 2020 highlights

2020 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
By: Natalie Dreier, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Updated: November 26, 2020 - 12:28 PM

NEW YORK — Like everything this year, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade looks very different because of the coronavirus pandemic, but as they say “The show must go on.”

Entertainers, massive balloons and musicians still filled a shortened route of the parade through part of Manhattan.

Take a look at the highlights.

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Performers dance along 34th Street during a pre-taping of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in front of the flagship store in New York, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020. At last year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the big fear was high wind. This year it's a deadly pandemic. But the show will go one thanks to an overhaul and creative thinking. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Performers dance along 34th Street during a pre-taping of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in front of the flagship store in New York, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020. At last year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the big fear was high wind. This year it's a deadly pandemic. But the show will go one thanks to an overhaul and creative thinking. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) (Mary Altaffer/AP)

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