Walking pigs… creepy.
(Photo by William Lovelace/Express/Getty Images)Oh sure they're all colorful now. Big brightly-colored balloons. Floats with popular children's show characters. But as I looked back in our archives of some of the photos from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade from the early days, it was kind of gloomy and creepy!
(Photo by William Lovelace/Express/Getty Images)Total nightmare fuel. From the 60s, Alice and the White Rabbit in the Thanksgiving Parade in New York.
(Photo by Express Newspapers/Getty Images)Mad Magazine's Alfred E. Neuman's oversized head... creepy.
(Photo by William Lovelace/Express/Getty Images)I'd be weirded out too kid.
(Photo by William Lovelace/Express/Getty Images)Even Popeye looks menacing.
(Photo by William Lovelace/Express/Getty Images)Crowds watching the Thanksgiving Parade in 1961 near Times Square, New York.
(Photo by Express Newspapers/Getty Images)Imagine how scary Bluto must've been.
(Photo by Express Newspapers/Getty Images)Tell me the young kids weren't crying tears of terror when they saw this coming.
(Photo by William Lovelace/Express/Getty Images)Walking pigs... creepy.
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