Click here to watch the Murphy Family home video from the 1953 Foley's Thanksgiving Day Parade from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image
Theme: Disney's Peter Pan
Grand Marshal: Uncle Bert
Uncle Bert hosted the local television show "Looney Town" on KPRC.
There were 12 floats (up from 5 the prior year) and 33 balloons piloted by 200 clowns (boy scouts).
Six bands, two drill teams, and a drum corps marched.
The Most Typical Cowpokes got to meet the Cisco Kid this year and have special box seats to the rodeo in the coming year.
While the prior year there had been a couple of antique cars, this year there would be more than 30 driving in the parade.
The weather was in the 60s.
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