You just brought back my childhood. I was born in Detroit.
If you’re a Detroiter, you probably also know about that corner I described at Woodward and Griswold. That was the same spot where my dad would take us later that year on Thanksgiving Day to watch the big parade.
They still do have huge parades there, preceeded by an early morning ‘Turkey Trott”, where tens of thousands of Michiganders converge on Woodward for a walk/ or race around the blocks near Comerica Stadium. The runners dress up in costumes with Xmas and Thanksgiving themes. My sisters mow live near that stadium. Of course Tiger Stadium was torn down decades ago.