Ghost Walking the Christmas Streets of Knoxville: The Inaugural Knoxville Santa Claus Parade
These days, the annual Knoxville Christmas parade that rolls along Gay Street, typically on the first Friday of December, remains as popular as ever. But everything has to start somewhere, and we have to look back almost 100 years to see how it all began.
Cities of Knoxville’s size had been clamoring to get on the Christmas parade bandwagon since watching the Macy’s Christmas Parade be wildly received in New York in 1924. Even though that first one was staged on Thanksgiving Day, that Christmas parade was renamed the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1935.
Inspired by Macy’s wildly popular…
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