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Happy Thanksgiving from TFR

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1931

The New York Daily News offered a retrospective (if it can be called that) of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons. I liked it.

The display of art as time is something that places us all in a continuum...although without that last balloon (Jeff Koons), we seem skidded toward disaster.

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1937

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1937


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1968


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2005

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Jeff Koons 2007

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