Macy's Tap-o-mania (Second Annual) Social Event 1979-08-26 The supposed second annual Macy's tap dance parade, organized as a back-to-school promotion. "A leggy regiment of 528 tap-dancers clattered west on 34th Street at Noon from the Empire State Building through Herald Square to the entrance of Macy's. Cheerfully performing steps such as grapevine, traveling flaps, they rat-a-tapped down the street with hundreds of New York tap-dancers of all ages and descriptions." ("It's Shuffle-Shuffle-Bam-Bam to Macys" New York Times August 12, 1990.) Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.2327