Is it me or would these balloons and costumes have freaked you out a little as a kid? These first two pics especially would have given me nightmares!

• Thanksgiving Parade

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  26th November 1961: Costumed participants in a New York Thanksgiving Day Parade. Some are dressed as pigs others as harlequins. (Photo by William Lovelace/Express/Getty Images)

• Peacock Float

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  1961: A peacock float taking part in a Thanksgiving Day Parade in a US city. (Photo by William Lovelace/Express/Getty Images)

• Popeye On Parade

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  26th November 1961: An inflated Popeye floats above the Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York as it nears Times Square. (Photo by William Lovelace/Express/Getty Images)
• Moose On Parade

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  26th November 1961: An balloon shaped like Bullwinkle, of 'Rocky and Bullwinkle' fame, floats above the Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, past cinemas and theatres, as it nears Times Square. (Photo by William Lovelace/Express/Getty Images)

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