6abc Dunkin' Donuts Thanksgiving Day Parade
The 6abc Dunkin' Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual Thanksgiving Day parade held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is currently sponsored and broadcast by ABC owned-and-operated television station WPVI-TV, through a co-sponsorship agreement with restaurant chain Dunkin'. It is currently the oldest Thanksgiving parade in the United States, having been held through the Great Depression and World War II, and was created by Gimbels department store in 1920. The Gimbels Thanksgiving Day Parade was held until the department store closed operations in 1986.
| 6abc Dunkin' Donuts Thanksgiving Day Parade | |
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Parade logo with Dunkin' Donuts' co-sponsorship introduced in 2011 | |
| Location(s) | 20th and JFK Boulevard, and then across JFK Boulevard, around Philadelphia City Hall, across the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and ending at the Philadelphia Museum of Art |
| Country | United States |
| Website | dig |
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