As Barney slowly imploded, volunteers and police officers teamed together to wrestle his flailing fuchsia frame to the ground. Forty-three-mile-per-hour winds whipped the balloon to and fro.
This week, TikTok account @onlyninetieskidsknow posted a vintage clip of the Barney balloon in the 1997 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade careening out of control over Manhattan’s Sixth Avenue ...