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America on Parade was a parade celebrating the Bicentennial of the United States. This parade ran both at Walt Disney World and Disneyland and during both the daytime and nighttime. The parade mainly showed on historical events in America such as innovations and activities. Because of this, there were floats such as a giant sandwich, box of popcorn, American Eagle, 20-foot rocking chair, 18 foot turkey and a 240 inch TV. Disney worked for over 2 years to make sure the parade would be ready to run at both parks with identical floats. The music for the floats was from an 1890 band organ named the Sadie Mae from Sikeston, Missouri. It used a type of punch cards instead of a music roll. Each float used the same sound system as the Main Street Electrical Parade.[2]
In the parade, there were over 300 8-foot tall costumed "People of America" who helped shape America's history. The costumes were later used at Epcot during its first few years and could be seen walking around the World Showcase. They were even in the Grand Opening show for Epcot.
The parade design was lead by Bob Jani who over saw everything from the floats to the 300 costumes characters.[1]
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