As Andy Williams reminds us in his 1963 classic, Christmas is “the most wonderful time of the year”. The song is a celebration and description of activities associated with the Christmas season, focusing primarily on get-togethers between friends and families.
In that first holiday season of the Great War years, Christmas shopping more or less involved a family navigating their way through the snow and mud in that one horse open sleigh of yore or trudging through the ruts and strolling along the wooden sidewalks that bordered all of the roads at that time.
Thanks to popular culture, our nostalgic remembrances of Christmas shopping in times past does not rest in this earlier, post-Edwardian life. In fact, it is almost always reminiscent of mid-20th century modes of dress and decor. As a throwback to the simpler times, you could bypass Woolworth’s and Kresge’s, and head to Birks-Ellis Jewelry to purchase a vanity set for the special lady in your life, “an impressive gift that merits confidence.” Of course, since we’re down that way, let us not forget about Eaton’s, that Canadian retail mecca that continued the tradition of being the go-to shopping destination at the corner of Durham and Larch which began with the Twin Stores.
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