The Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1961 Was Actively Terrifying

Yes, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is a hellscape of capitalism wherein children are indoctrinated into early submission by adorable dinosaurs sponsored by oil companies, but let’s discuss the alternative: this New York City Thanksgiving parade in 1961, pre-Macy’s, when every “fun” children’s character looked vaguely homicidal, if not serially so.

Even familiar figures had an air of foreboding.

These girls know shit ain’t right.