Do you remember being promised a special trip “downtown” to see the holiday windows? Before there were malls, there were family trips to downtown department stores, where the windows offered […]
Remember Store Holiday Windows or a Visit to Santa? Read More »
The other day at The Autry National Center of the American West in Los Angeles, I came upon this wonderful International Harvester truck, and I thought it would be fun to post a “then” and “now.”
Then and Now: International Harvester Trucks Read More »
This year retailers are again offering “layaway plans” as a mechanism to stimulate sales.
Layaway Plans Are Back Read More »
I have read some stories of P.T. Barnum but over the weekend I came upon one I had not heard… about how he got his start promoting a slave whom he claimed was George Washington’s mammy.
P.T. Barnum Was Really Something Read More »
Today we awoke to news that a shopper at a California Walmart used pepper spray on other shoppers to gain an advantage on getting into the store for Black Friday shopping bargains. That’s a new one for the books.
Holiday Shopping Season 1929-Style Read More »
In 1939 and 1940 President Franklin Roosevelt was looking for ways to give the economy a boost so he proclaimed that Thanksgiving should be held on the third Thursday of November, a suggestion he hoped would extend the Christmas shopping season.
Why FDR Tried to Change Date of Thanskgiving Read More »
