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The lively nations celebrate each and every moment they can. Ticket Tape Parade 2009 is another way to have a celebration and this time it is being celebrated after quite some time. The ticket tape parade for Yankees has been planned on Friday at 11 am at the same formal route. Past records show that Yankees ticket parade was being attended by 3.5 million people and it is being anticipated that this time this record is going to be broke.

Ticket Parade has quite an interesting history behind. The first ticket parade was celebrated in 1986 in New York. The waste papers were showered on the route from the building on reaching of convoy. The term ticket tape is usually used for the ticket tape machine’s paper, which is used in the stock exchanges for the updating of the market rates. The shredded paper has been used to greet the convoy.

Yankees were on the road back in 1996 and 1998 to celebrate the parade. It was attended by the millions of people to grace the occasion. The same famous route for Ticket Tape parade has been used in the past and will be used in upcoming parade. The parade will go by the Canyon of Heroes route and the Yankees players are quite familiar with the route as they did it before. The parade will also overtake Battery Park, Up Broadway and after passing though Financial District, the parade will arrive at City Hall Plaza. At the City Hall Plaza the Mayor Bloomberg will handover the keys of the city to the team.

Well, the last time Yankees parade was attended by 3.5 million fans and no wonders if this year parade might break all the records behind.

If you can’t make it to the parade, you can be a part online with live streaming. The only difference you would have is that, you won’t be able to shower the papers on the Yankees team but you can watch the Memorial Day.