Bill Smith (nice guy!) has answered thusly:
Thank you for your email. Yes- I know the details of that picture. It was taken Thanksgiving morning 1962 in NYC on West 77th Street. The year of the debut of the Donald Duck balloon. It was a cold, rainy "duck day".
He is netted, kept secure by sandbags awaiting his handlers to report. The other balloons that year included The Woman On The Flying Trapeeze, Happy Dragon, Popeye and Bullwinkle Moose.
Glad you enjoyed the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade book by Robert M. Grippo. Watch in February for another new book about Macys 150th illustrated store history by Grippo. He promises yet more parade images and facts will be included.
I am also in the process of writing (finishing) my own book on the history of Parade Figure Balloons. This will come out in October 2009.
Thank you once again. Hope that this information helps.
Bill Smith
Mickey Mouse at the 1934 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
FELIX: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Thanksgiving
Thursday, November 25, 2010 Sassy Sanctuary
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