The Time Vacuum Cleaners Saved Baltimore's Thanksgiving Day Parade

On the afternoon of November 22, 1936, Hochschild Kohn Department Store was feverish with preparations for the next day's Toytown Thanksgiving Day Parade. It was learned that the Mickey Mouse balloons were on a truck, frozen in, in upstate New York. They would arrive very late in the morning - too late to be inflated with the commercial balloon pumps. But the parade went on, because the Mickey Mouse balloons did get inflated - in a very surprising way.