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Balloons Over Broadway

the True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade
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Many of the people working at Macy's were immigrants, and as the holiday approached, they missed their own holiday traditions of music and dancing in the streets. Macy agreed to put on a parade for their employees, and they hired Tony to…
"From the time he was a little boy, Tony Sarg loved to figure out how to make things move. He once said he became a marionette man when he was only six years old."
" Macy's had heard about Tony's puppets and asked him to design a "puppet parade" for the store's holiday windows."
"With a marionette, the controls are above and the puppet hangs down.."
“I have never done a stroke of work in my life” by Tony Sarg
"Every Thanksgiving morning for more than eighty years, mammoth-size balloons have risen to the skies to wobble and sway, sally and shimmy, up and down the canyons of New York City. Just how did this beloved tradition come to Broadway? Who…