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Since 1924,<ref name=fox12/> Woodward Avenue has hosted [[America's Thanksgiving Parade]],<ref name="route">{{cite web |title = See the Official Parade Route: Woodward Ave. Comes Alive with America's Thanksgiving Parade |url = http://www.clickondetroit.com/station/10309311/detail.html |date = November 13, 2006 |work = Click On Detroit |publisher = [[WDIV-TV]] |location = Detroit |access-date = May 26, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110609032104/http://www.clickondetroit.com/station/10309311/detail.html |archive-date = June 9, 2011 }}</ref> the second oldest [[Thanksgiving]] Day parade in the United States.<ref name=fox12>{{cite news |title = Correct! Philadelphia Held Its First Parade in 1920 |work = Our Daily Holiday Quiz |url = http://www.kptv.com/story/5663561/a |publisher = [[KPTV-TV]] |location = Portland, Oregon |access-date = November 20, 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131224105238/http://www.kptv.com/story/5663561/a |archive-date = December 24, 2013 |url-status = dead }}</ref> In 1925, the intersection between Woodward Avenue and State Street was busier than [[Times Square]].<ref name= stein>{{cite news |first = Jason |last = Stein |title = Woodward Avenue: More than Just the Heart of Detroit, It's the Soul of the Automotive World |work = [[Daily Herald (Arlington Heights)|Daily Herald]] |location = Arlington Heights, Illinois |date = September 13, 2009 |at = §9, p. 1 |oclc = 18030507 |url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21829523/woodward_avenue_more_than_just_the/ |access-date = July 13, 2018 |via = Newspapers.com |archive-date = July 13, 2018 }}</ref> On November 11, 1926, the [[United States Numbered Highway System]] was approved by the [[American Association of State Highway Officials]] (AASHO);<ref name=USH>{{cite book |first = Dan |last = McNichol |year = 2006 |title = The Roads that Built America |location = New York |publisher = [[Sterling Publishing|Sterling]] |page = 74 |isbn = 1-4027-3468-9 |oclc = 63377558 }}</ref> the M-10 designation along Woodward was replaced with [[U.S. Route 10 in Michigan|US 10]], a moniker that ran from Detroit to [[Seattle, Washington]].<ref name=USHM>{{cite map |author1 = [[Bureau of Public Roads]] |author2 = [[American Association of State Highway Officials]] |date = November 11, 1926 |title = United States System of Highways Adopted for Uniform Marking by the American Association of State Highway Officials |url = https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_System_of_Highways_Adopted_for_Uniform_Marking_by_the_American_Association_of_State_Highway_Officials.jpg |scale = 1:7,000,000 |location = Washington, DC |publisher = [[United States Geological Survey]] |oclc = 32889555 |access-date = November 7, 2013 |via = [[Wikimedia Commons]] |name-list-style = amp |archive-date = November 9, 2013 }}</ref>
Legal disputes over a plan to widen Woodward Avenue dating back to 1874 were resolved in 1932. Permission was needed from a majority of the landowners along Woodward Avenue to finalize the deal.<ref name=baulch/> John W. Chandler, general manager of the Woodward Avenue Improvement Association,<ref name=NYEP>{{cite news |url = http://fultonhistory.com/newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201929%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201929%20Grayscale%20-%200115.pdf |title = News from Other Cities: Detroit |work = [[New York Evening Post]] |date = February 4, 1929 |page = 28 |oclc = 9517291 |access-date = September 23, 2012 |via = FultonHistory.com }}</ref> pledged not to shave his face until he had the necessary permissions in hand. This resolution allowed Woodward to be widened from {{convert|66|to|120|ft|m}}. Several buildings were removed to clear the wider street path, and [[St. John's Episcopal Church (Detroit
[[File:Woodward Ave Detroit 1942.jpg|thumb|right|Looking south down Woodward Avenue from the Maccabees Building with the Detroit skyline in the distance, July 1942; streetcar tracks are visible in the middle of the street.|alt=Photograph of]]
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