
The famous high kick! at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in 1964, the Rockettes (in teensy onesies) perform in front of thousands of bundled-up onlookers. From NBC/NBCU. Photo Bank/Getty Images. / src: Vanity Fair
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The famous high kick! at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in 1964, the Rockettes (in teensy onesies) perform in front of thousands of bundled-up onlookers. From NBC/NBCU. Photo Bank/Getty Images. / src: Vanity Fair

Otto Dyar :: Hollywood actors Fay Wray and Regis Toomey costumed as pilgrims out for a Thanksgiving hunt, 1931 / The press snipe reads: “PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – Fay Wray and Regis Toomey, Paramount players, emulate the originators of Thanksgiving Day.” / src: Grapefruit Moon Gallery on eBay
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Actress Helen Foster posing for a portrait while wearing “Pilgrim” garb and holding a live turkey, November 1927 (source: NYTimes)

Otto Dyar :: Hollywood actors Fay Wray and Regis Toomey costumed as pilgrims out for a Thanksgiving hunt, 1931 /
The press snipe reads: “PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – Fay Wray and Regis Toomey, Paramount players, emulate the originators of Thanksgiving Day.” / src: Grapefruit Moon Gallery on eBay