2008 6abc Ikea Thanksgiving Day Parade
Wednesday November 26, 2008
The 2008 6abc Ikea Thanksgiving Day Parade will take place tomorrow, beginning at 8:30 a.m.
The parade will be telecast on 6abc and hosted by Cecily Tynan and Dave Roberts along with the Action News morning team.
Special guests will include Rachel Ray, Pop Star Mario (from Dancing With The Stars), Syesha Mercado and Justin Guarini (from American Idol), singer Maxine Nightingale, Kathy Brier (from One Life to Live), Miss America 2008 Kirsten Haglund, Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2009 Taylor Fitch, Miss Delaware Galen Giaccone, Miss Pennsylvania Kendria Perry, Miss New Jersey Ashley Fairfield, the cast of The Wizard of Oz which is performing at the Academy of Music, The Von Trapp Children presented by Peter Nero and the Philly Pops, several 2008 Summer Olympic stars, Shae Laurel, Lauren Hart, the Drexel University Gospel Choir, several Disney on Ice, Sesame Place and Walt Disney characters, the Philadelphia Eagles Cheerleaders and, of course, Santa Claus!
The parade starts at 8:15 a.m. at 20th and Market Streets, then turns left on 15th Street. The parade continues left onto Arch Street and then proceeds northwest on the Ben Franklin Parkway ending at Eakins Oval at the Philadelphia Musuem of Art.
Ikea, the Swedish household furnishings retailer whose North American headquarters are in Conshohocken, came to the rescue of the Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade when Boscov's, a department store chain in the Mid-Atlantic region that declared bankruptcy in August. The parade was begun in the 1920's by a member of the Gimbels family, owners of the now-defunct department store chain that for many years was the top rival of New York City's Macy's which sponsors their own parade.
The company replaces Boscov's, a department store chain in the Mid-Atlantic region that declared bankruptcy in August, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Boscov's had warned WPVI-TV, the Philadelphia ABC affiliate, that it might not be able to reorganize in time to sponsor this year's parade. WPVI, owned by Disney, broadcasts the parade and is its other sponsor.
The parade will be telecast on 6abc and hosted by Cecily Tynan and Dave Roberts along with the Action News morning team.
Special guests will include Rachel Ray, Pop Star Mario (from Dancing With The Stars), Syesha Mercado and Justin Guarini (from American Idol), singer Maxine Nightingale, Kathy Brier (from One Life to Live), Miss America 2008 Kirsten Haglund, Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2009 Taylor Fitch, Miss Delaware Galen Giaccone, Miss Pennsylvania Kendria Perry, Miss New Jersey Ashley Fairfield, the cast of The Wizard of Oz which is performing at the Academy of Music, The Von Trapp Children presented by Peter Nero and the Philly Pops, several 2008 Summer Olympic stars, Shae Laurel, Lauren Hart, the Drexel University Gospel Choir, several Disney on Ice, Sesame Place and Walt Disney characters, the Philadelphia Eagles Cheerleaders and, of course, Santa Claus!
The parade starts at 8:15 a.m. at 20th and Market Streets, then turns left on 15th Street. The parade continues left onto Arch Street and then proceeds northwest on the Ben Franklin Parkway ending at Eakins Oval at the Philadelphia Musuem of Art.
Ikea, the Swedish household furnishings retailer whose North American headquarters are in Conshohocken, came to the rescue of the Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade when Boscov's, a department store chain in the Mid-Atlantic region that declared bankruptcy in August. The parade was begun in the 1920's by a member of the Gimbels family, owners of the now-defunct department store chain that for many years was the top rival of New York City's Macy's which sponsors their own parade.
The company replaces Boscov's, a department store chain in the Mid-Atlantic region that declared bankruptcy in August, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Boscov's had warned WPVI-TV, the Philadelphia ABC affiliate, that it might not be able to reorganize in time to sponsor this year's parade. WPVI, owned by Disney, broadcasts the parade and is its other sponsor.
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Our 11 year grandson Anthony McDonough,who’s visiting us from Florida, is walking with his cousin Jacob Graham and his Uncle Andy Graham, with the boy scouts of Delaware Valley
in the Thanksgiving day parade.
I just thought you might like to know the dedication of the boys scouts.
Happy Thanksgiving!
My boy scout troop is also marching in the Ikea Thanksgiving Day Parade in Philadelphia. I am the Senior Patrol Leader for Boy Scout Troop 63 located in Villas, NJ. It’s quite an honor to usher in Santa Clause in Philadelphia.
Villas is located in Cape May County