Olive Oyl is widely reported to be the "first official female character" to earn a balloon, but historian and author of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Robert M. Grippo, told Bustle that in his ...
The first-ever character balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was Felix the Cat in 1927. Creating a Macy's parade balloon is a complex process that takes about five months to complete. The ...
Faster than a speeding dirigible! More powerful than a horseless carriage! Able to leap short cottages in a single bound! It’s a bird! It’s an aeroplane! It’s a… jumper balloon? In the go-go 1920s, ...