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Changing times, changing shopping trends lead to changing traditions. By the 1960s, '70s and '80s, Longstreth said, department stores, like the downtowns that once held them, were changing.
A 1963 DIspatch photograph of the Lazarus department store in downtown Columbus decorated with holiday lights. One of the light displays formed a Christmas tree around the Lazarus water tower on ...
Also, inside the store, was "Santa's Secret Shop". Off-limits to the adults, children entered an enclosed mini shopping area. All of this "spirit of Christmas" started at the street level with animated window displays such as angels playing violins in the windows. The Rich's department store chain was sold to Federated Department Stores in 1975
Sterling Lindner Davis (SLD) was a major department store in downtown Cleveland's Theater District which operated from 1845 (with the founding of Sterling & Welch) to 1968. [1] The retailer was primarily known for displaying the largest decorated Christmas tree in the state of Ohio, this tradition started in 1927. [ 2 ]
Dee Moore, 84, can't forget his mother buying him Buster Brown shoes at one downtown store with an X-ray shoe-fitting machine. The devices, in wooden boxes similar to an old radio console, were ...
Tom Keogh designed the annual Christmas windows for Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The Fenwick (department store) in Newcastle is known locally for its Christmas window display. Since 1971 there has been a Christmas display in the shop's windows, and people come from near and far to look at them.
Founded in 1881 as a clothing store for men and boys in downtown Detroit, the Hudson's 25-story building stood as the world’s tallest department store until 1961.
He retired in February 1985, and Doug Hawkes took over the time slot. Pallan said his favorite broadcasts were the Christmas season shows that KDKA originated daily from the downtown department store windows as a fund-raiser for Pittsburgh's Children's Hospital. Pallan was also a singer who cut several records in the 1950s.