On a cold Sunday all bundled up KT and I parked and walked around City Hall and stared in amazement at the Christmas, Holiday, Christmas village...with wooden stand after wooden stand after wooden stand of Christmas...stuff...German dancers?... and lots and lots of scarves and pashminas...all 3 for $25.00... so if you get one from me don't be that impressed...
Anyway KT was freezing...my 62 year old body wasn't that cold, oddly enough...so we went for lunch (of course, although no Crystal Room or Harvey House available) and then a little shopping. We ended up in Wanamaker's, now Macy's, and found ourselves right smack in the middle of the light show...now the LED show. KT wanted to watch for awhile so I wandered into the shoe department to find a seat but instead found myself standing in the background watching her watching the show and she was smiling from ear to ear...I looked around and so many memories in that very spot with the Eagle in the background came to me...including my brother getting lost, Aunt Mag buying specially mixed foundation for herself...the most sophisticated thing I had EVER seen... and my mother breaking a fabulous high heel. And now in 2010 my beautiful daughter smiling at the sight and also, I am sure, at her very own special memories... oh yes, it is Christmas time in Philadelphia... 
7 comments:
Bravo, another great story.
Wonderful memories! It has been a very long time, but I remember eating in the Crystal Tea Room, too, and riding the train around the toy department - on the 7th floor??? I didn't realize the Tea Room was no longer around. Thank you for writing!
oh mommy...! so good...very well written....thanks for a great day...love you most...xxoo
I love to start the morning with a teary eye - so many memories.....thanks!
"Aunt Susan", what memories! I want to take my kiddies to see it too. Remember that dinner Aunt Mag use dto take us for lunch and we needed a quarter for the toilet? Good times.
Matthew
I know! Going downtown at Christmastime WAS the thing to do! As a kid, it was all so magical. Thanks for bringing back some of those memories for me, Suz. :-)
Great story all Phily kids remember My shoes were always too tight but Roie always made it fun for me she was the one who took me every year and dinner at the Pub Tiki. I am guessing Betty and Al had a date that day.
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