Dick Clark appears on the TV show This Is Your Life

American Bandstand with Dick Clark Philadelphia, PA 1956 American Bandstand announced that clean-cut 26 -year old Dick Clark will become the new host. Locally produced now, it will soon air it's first national show in 1957. The regulars on Bandstand, Kenny Rossi, Arlene Sullivan, Bunny Gibson, Eddie Kelly, Pat Molittieri, Carmen Jimenz, and Joyce Shafer are not paid actors or dancers. They are real kids from Philly, and if you watch every day, you can tell who is breaking up and who is making up.

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Macy’s Employees Celebrate Their Third Thanksgiving Day Parade

New York City 1927 What a Hit ! Now in it’s third year, over a quarter million people lined Fifth Avenue to celebrate Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Proud of their new American heritage, many of Macy's department store employees, helped create this parade based on the traditions of the festivals they loved in Europe. The employees marched from 145 Street down to 34th Street dressed as clowns, cowboys, knights and sheiks. There were floats, professional bands and 25 live animals borrowed from the Central Park Zoo. This year the parade had its first huge balloon Felix the Cat. After the parade he was released and will float for days until a lucky finder can claim the prize!