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Ticker-tape parades may appear spontaneous, i.e. the honored guest rides in an open limousine up Broadway from the Battery to City Hall for an official welcome by the Mayor, showered by shredded paper and confetti (or in the pre-digital age, ticker tape), along the way.\u00a0Examining Whalen\u2019s records\u00a0shows that staging a ticker-tape parade was anything but spontaneous.\u00a0The Municipal Archives collections include the files Grover Whalen created during his multi-decade career as the City\u2019s official greeter. The eight folders generated for the Gertrude Ederle celebration are a good example.<\/p>\n
After receiving the green light from Mayor Walker, Whelan assembled a committee with representatives from city departments (Police, Fire, Docks, Street Cleaning, and Plant & Structures), news media, and people from organizations relevant to the honored guest. For Ederle, this included many athletic clubs and groups such as the New York Athletic Club, Millrose Athletic Club, and the Women\u2019s Swimming Association.<\/p>\n
Although Whalen and his committee could take advantage of the several-day ocean voyage before Ederle returned to America, they needed to move quickly.\u00a0He summoned committee members by telegram and held the first meeting on Monday, August 23.\u00a0The \u201cMinutes of Meeting\u201d are included in his files. Whalen opened the meeting: \u201cWe have come together this afternoon on a very interesting and, I am sure, a very pleasing occasion\u2014to plan for the welcome of one of New York\u2019s own\u2026.\u201d But then he added, \u201cI am sure that we all feel very proud of Gertrude, and we call her by her first name because we feel that she is very close to us and because she has done so much to make us realize that after all young womanhood today [is] not giving all of its time to smoking and drinking.\u201d The surviving records do not say what prompted that statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ticker-tape parades may appear spontaneous, i.e. the honored guest rides in an open limousine up Broadway from the Battery to City Hall for an official welcome by the Mayor, showered by shredded paper and confetti (or in the pre-digital age, ticker tape), along the way.\u00a0Examining Whalen\u2019s records\u00a0shows that staging a ticker-tape parade was anything but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7049213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12032],"tags":[15936,1159,6594,15935,13235,4834,211737,34701,5701,3482],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7049212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-history","tag-department","tag-home","tag-information","tag-nyc","tag-records","tag-services","tag-trudy","tag-welcoming","tag-wild","tag-york"],"yoast_head":"\n
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