Nice story and photo, Frank. Reminded me of seeing the Christmas windows at
Marshal Fields and Carson Pire Scott department stores on State Street.
Fields is gone; it's now Macy's, and Carson's is also gone. Cheers,
Christine
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From: "frank theriault" <[email protected]>
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 3:05 PM
Subject: PESO - The Christmas Window
As many of you know, when I was a kid I lived in Montreal. There
were no less than four major department stores downtown back then
(don't know how many there are now, but I know that in Toronto there's
only one of the old stores left). It was always a treat to be brought
downtown by my father during the Christmas season. We always had to
walk by all four stores, to look at the Christmas windows. Morgan's
was at one end of the shopping area of St. Catherine's Street (the
main drag), and we always started there and walked west to finish at
Ogilvy's. Ogilvy's had to be last, because they always had the best
windows. They alternated annually between two completely different
animated woodland scenes.
Sometimes the crowd was three or four thick in front of Ogilvy's
window - people stood there forever, just watching. My dad would
always exhort me to push my way to the front; being a kid had some
privileges, I guess. He'd wait patiently at the back of the crowd for
me, never once telling me to hurry or that it was time to go.
I think he enjoyed it as much as me.
As I said, Toronto has one grand old department store left: it was
once Robert Simpson's, now it's the flagship store for the Bay
(Hudson's Bay Company). I saw this mother and daughter enjoying one
of their windows, and the memories came flooding back:
http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-window.html
I would have liked to taken a few more than this one, but the fur
protesters caught my attention, and the one I took of them was the
last of the roll.
Leica CL, Summicron C 40mm, Ilford HP5+
Hope you enjoy. Comments always welcome.
cheers,
frank
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