As a youngster or older, What stores did you do your holiday "shopping" at, that are no more? We would go to Kaufmanns
in Pittsburgh and look at all the decorated windows. We would go inside and with the eyes of a child, delight in the decorations. I don't ever remember buying anything myself, but the experience was magical.
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Santa.
But when my sister and I were kids, my parents took us to downtown Cleveland a few times, this would have been in the mid 60s. Among the several big department stores, there was one called Sterling-Lindner’s.
Every Christmas they had a huge real tree on display in the atrium of the store. The one in 1966 was 73 ft. Tall. Gazing up at that tree I felt like it must have reached into the heavens. I still remember it well to this day. We also went to Higbee’s, Halle’s, I’m sure others. It was such a magical time. Halle’s 7th floor was the toy floor. They had this guy there called Mr. Jingaling who was dressed in a costume supposed to be one of Santa’s elves. You could ride around the toy dept. on a little train and when you got off the train his helper would give you a little paper cup of Jordan almonds (which I disliked but that was a minor thing). Mr. Jingaling also made appearances on local kid TV shows so of course every kid in the area wanted their parents to take them to Halle’s 7th floor. Also the store had those vacuum tubes to send your payment to the office when you bought something. I was into Steiff stuffed animals back then and I remember my mother bought me a stuffed tiger. It was such a happy time.
Here is the Sterling Lindner tree from 1966.
My Dad graduated from Case, too.
line up.
Many good memories. 
Michigan department stores.
And going downtown to see the windows at O'Neil's and Polsky's
If I was lucky, Granma Schenk would take me to the Oak Room for "luncheon".
at the windows and decorations and maybe eat at the Tea Room .
This would have been the early 80s, my son was about 4 or 5. We oohed and ahhed at the Christmas decorations. And we saw Mark Malone sitting at a table signing autographs! There was a long line of people waiting for an autograph. He was quite good looking!
We had a small one in my little Kansas town, I bought a lot of record albums there...
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Though we probably bought more from the G. C. Murphy’s in West Newton.
beautiful displays.
Mother would buy their god awful hoagies to eat when we came back home. I would take all the mystery meat off and have a vegetarian sub.
Pittsburgh had one today. But it is put on by, I think , KDKA.
you displacedvermoter.
I was young I thought I wanted to do that as a living.
downtown Pittsburgh. It was an experience.
had all the toys. Went by myself and would just look around. They are long gone.
Coldwater Michigan. A old 3- floor department type store that specialized in millinery, i.e. carpet and flooring, draperies, and the like, but also a host of other home furnishing things. On the ground floor, they had an overhead cable system for sending a capsule to another room, for cash and receipts… operated until they closed in the mid 80s. Might have been the last operating capsule system, or whatever it was called, of that type. It was pretty cool!
My one purchase there was a stereo receiver… one of the best buys in my life. Still in occasional use! 
them too.
