Archive for November, 2016

IT’S PARADE DAY AT MACY’S

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1931

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual event presented by the
department store chain Macy’s. The tradition started in 1924. Live animals
were borrowed from the Central Park Zoo to entertain the crowd at that first
parade, but were replaced with the giant balloons in 1927. Pictured above,
an alligator balloon in the 1932 parade.

The three-hour Macy’s parade is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m.
EST and has been televised nationally on the NBC-TV network since 1952.

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2015

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PIZZA MAN JOHN SCHNATTER IS 55 TODAY

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John H. Schnatter was born in
Jeffersonville, Indiana.

Schnatter is founder, spokesman, and CEO of the pizza company Papa Johns,
which he founded in 1984. He invested in pizza-making equipment by selling
his 1972 Camaro Z28 (shown below).

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A REVIEW OF PAST NEWS EVENTS

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Tim maguire
TIM MAGUIRE

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First LIFE magazine cover from 1936 with logo and photo
of Fort Peck Dam’s spillway by Margaret Bourke-White.

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Margaret Bourke-White
(June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971)

Margaret Burke-White is best known as the first foreign photographer
permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry, the first American female 
war photojournalist, and the first female photographer for Henry Luce‘s 
Life
magazine.

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FIRST JUKEBOX HEARD ON THIS DAY IN 1889


Saloon patrons listening to the first  jukebox in San Francisco. 

The first jukebox was installed at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. It
became an overnight sensation, and its popularity spreads around the world.

That first jukebox was constructed by the Pacific Phonograph Company. Four stethoscope-like tubes were attached to an Edison Class M electric phonograph
fitted inside an oak cabinet. The tubes operated individually, each being activated
by the insertion of a coin, meaning that four different listeners could be plugged
in to the same song simultaneously.

Towels were supplied to patrons so they could wipe off the end of the tube after
each listening.

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REMEMBERING THIS FATEFUL DAY IN 1963

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John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963)

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