The World's Largest Disco, an annual celebration held over Thanksgiving weekend in Buffalo, New York, draws thousands of disco fans in 1970s-era attire.

Sega had managed to sell 200, 000 32X consoles in the first three weeks of availability ; 100, 000 consoles being sold during Thanksgiving weekend alone.

With most school-age children and college students ( except those attending summer school ) on summer vacation during the summer months, especially in the United States, travel and vacationing traditionally peaks during the summer, with the volume of travel in a typical summer weekend rivaled only by Thanksgiving.

" Toy Storys first five days of domestic release ( on Thanksgiving weekend ), earned the film $ 39, 071, 176.

The Buffalo and Rochester metropolitan areas each played a championship game, the winners of which would advance to the " New York Pro Championship " on Thanksgiving weekend.

The Voyage Home opened theatrically in North America on Thanksgiving weekend, November 26, 1986.

As of 2009, the event has an annual attendance of more than 50, 000 over the weekend immediately prior to Thanksgiving each year.

* Thurman Country Christmas Bazaar Find a wonderful array of home crafted items on Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend at the Thurman town hall, 311 Athol Road, Athol, NY 12810.

A Christkindlmarkt is also held each year on Thanksgiving weekend.

In Thanksgiving weekend 1981, in what became a famous case in Puerto Rico, De Jesus was convicted of murder after killing a 17-year-old, over a traffic dispute.

1987's Blood Rage used a Thanksgiving weekend setting.

-All malls and department stores, as well as most other stores remain open longer hours between Thanksgiving weekend and Christmas Eve for Christmas and Holiday shopping.

During their two nights over Thanksgiving weekend at the Wetlands in New York City, the band recorded Loaf, their first official live release.

" A convention was called by four Socialist Party State Committees, the NEC of the YPSL, and the organized Left Wing organizations of Chicago and New York, slated to be held in Chicago over Thanksgiving weekend, November 25 – 28, 1937.

When the New York Pro Football League opened in 1919, the team, now reorganized into a franchise known as the Prospects, defeated the Rochester Jeffersons for the league title in a two-game Thanksgiving weekend tournament.

A major " Fall Festival " is held each year, coinciding with Canadian Thanksgiving weekend ( most of Ellicottville's tourists come from Canada ) and the peak of the leaf peeping season.

No one was injured in the incident however it did cause massive delays in the ferry system because of the already large volume of traffic for Thanksgiving weekend.

The novel takes place over Thanksgiving weekend 1973, during a dangerous ice storm and centers on two neighboring families, the Hoods and the Williamses, and the difficulties they have dealing with the tumultuous political and social climate of the day, in affluent suburban Connecticut, during the height of the sexual revolution.

Retailers noticed that many consumers, who were too busy to shop over the Thanksgiving weekend or did not find what they were looking for, shopped for bargains online that Monday from home or work.

The National Retail Federation releases figures on the sales for each Thanksgiving weekend.

When they could arrange child care, the Lehmers spent weekends staying up all night running such problems, the first over the Thanksgiving weekend of 1945.

Most of the businesses in the town are open from May until the Thanksgiving long weekend in October, and are closed for the other seven months of the year.

On November 30, 2006, singer / songwriter Willa Ford announced that Modano, her long-time boyfriend, had proposed to her during the weekend of Thanksgiving, 2006.

* the very popular Fall Colours Studio Tour, held annually on Thanksgiving weekend in October.

Following this, a Eucharistic Prayer ( called " The Great Thanksgiving ") is offered.

In 2004, it offered a complete, drinkable Thanksgiving dinner — five bottles — as a box set for $ 16.

Caroline's success as a cartoonist is well displayed throughout the first season, as she gets her own balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, has a park dedicated to her in her native Peshtigo, Wisconsin, and is offered her own cereal.

Montpelier is open to visitors every day except Thanksgiving and Christmas, with the following hours: January – March: 9: 00 a. m. to 4: 00 p. m, April – October: 9: 00 a. m. to 5: 00 p. m., November – December: 9: 00 a. m. to 4: 00 p. m. Montpelier also offers visitors the chance to explore the Gilmore Farm: A Freedman ’ s House, open daily ; a Hands-on-Restoration-Tent open from April – October ; Hands-on-Archaeology Lab and Kid-Sized Archaeology open daily ; Hands-on-Cooking offered April – October ; Civil War and Gilmore Farm Trail open daily ; and, the Archaeology Dig open April – October.

The marching band has a strong reputation and has preformed in many famous parades such as the Macy's Thanksgiving parade and Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

With strong reviews appearing all over the country, not only of Buffalo Springfield Again but of the band's performance as part of the Beach Boys Fifth Annual Thanksgiving Tour, things were looking up.

It was put in a strong wire cage and taken to the Auburn football game against the University of South Carolina in Columbus, Georgia on Thanksgiving Day.

Algonquin maintains a strong cross-town rivalry with Westborough High School, in which both teams compete in the annual Thanksgiving Day Football Game.

He claimed clear first place in the Toronto Thanksgiving Open 2000 with 5 / 6, ahead of several strong Masters.

* Every year in November, the Friday after Thanksgiving marks the start of Coeur d ' Alene's Christmas Lighting Ceremony including a parade, fireworks and special holiday candles given out by the local downtown businesses.

Prophetstown also hosts a Lighted Christmas Parade as the highlight of the start of the holiday season the Saturday before Thanksgiving.

That the day after Thanksgiving is the " official " start of the holiday shopping season may be linked together with the idea of Santa Claus parades.

In 1939, retail shops would have liked to have a longer shopping season, but no store wanted to break with tradition and be the one to start advertising before Thanksgiving.

White admitted to People magazine it was difficult " watching someone else do my parade ", although she soon would start a ten-year run as hostess of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade for CBS.

As the Halloween decorations and costumes dwindle in October, Christmas is already being pushed on consumers, and by the day after Halloween retailers are going full-force with advertising, even though the " official " season doesn't start until the day after Thanksgiving.

On the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade invited family members from Tuesday's Children, a family service organization that has made a long-term commitment to those directly impacted by 9 / 11 and terrorism around the world, to cut the ribbon at the start of the parade with NBC's Al Roker and led the parade with Amy Kule, the Parade's executive producer.

He returned to the starting lineup in Week 12 against the Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving, and went on to start four of the team's final five games after Thanksgiving.

They were well known for being one of the earliest radio stations in the entire United States to start featuring holiday music with a majority of other stations not starting until around Thanksgiving.

In the U. S., the traditional start of Christmas time is Thanksgiving, but now begins on ( or even before ) November 1, the day after Halloween.

Burroughs recites this dedication at the start of his Dead City Radio recording of the " Thanksgiving Day " poem.