Higher-end department stores, once a fixture of urban commercial districts, emerged after World War II as a place for shoppers to browse, have lunch and visit in-store salons and service providers ...

Department stores go all out on Christmas displays Curtains lift today after months of designing, building and installing By CHRISTINE FREY , SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER Nov 28, 2002 ...

In time for the December shopping season, Manhattan department stores have unveiled ornate displays. The light display on the facade at Saks Fifth Avenue on Monday night. It’s Holiday Window ...

Department Store Event Ideas. ... To attract people to your event, decorate your store's windows and displays with spring colors and imagery that depicts blue skies, ...

Visitors take in the windows of Rike's department store in 1952. Frederik Rike, owner of the Rike-Kumler Co., moved the Christmas window displays from New York City to downtown Dayton in 1945.

Macy’s is celebrating its 150th year of holiday window displays, a tradition that started at the department store in 1874. This year’s iconic displays bring the immersive and stylized Macy’s ...

Department stores have unveiled their Christmas window displays for the upcoming festival.(Photo: Xinhua) Pedestrians take photos of Christmas decorations at the Galeries Lafayette Haussmann ...

A Carson Pirie Scott & Co. 1880 wholesale invoice on display in the “Lost Chicagoland Department Stores” exhibition at the Elmhurst History Museum in Elmhurst on Oct. 5, 2023.

The annual ornate department store window displays are spectacular — Saks’s light show and windows alone took more than 250 people around 40,000 hours to complete — but they are a dying art.

PHILADELPHIA − A crowd waited outside Macy's for the doors to open on a cloudy, foggy Tuesday morning a couple of weeks before Christmas. Some were there to shop, but others, such as Bryan and ...

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.