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To: Ilaine who wrote (89369)	12/5/2004 3:46:57 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793923

there was a department store, Maison Blanche That brought back memories. I got a great purse there on my first business trip to New Orleans. I always stopped in when I was in town.

To: Ilaine who wrote (89369)	12/5/2004 9:33:47 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793923

My Christmas memories include annual trips into Detroit, to see the JL Hudson's display and their fantastical Santa Village. And I agree, I do not recall any municipal displays of creches or other similar displays. They were limited to the churches.

To: Ilaine who wrote (89369)	12/6/2004 1:00:59 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793923

Ahhh...memories! Denver in the 40's and 50's had wonderful Christmas display windows at the May Company! It does seem to me they had a window with the manger scene, but most of the windows were filled with "stories" of the legends of the more modern Christmas....from the 1840's forward when St Nick first made his appearance in our Christmas fables. In very early American times, we didn't have Christmas in the New England colonies until the early 1800's (they didn't like the pagan ideas of Winter Solstice), while the Southern colonies (Williamsburg VA, etc) had Christmas much earlier. But no Santas' or St Nicks until the 1840's.