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		<title>The Santamobiles of Bradburn&#8217;s Department Store</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/12/15/the-santamobiles-of-bradburns-department-store/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through the mid part of the century, the City&#8217;s Downtown was home to several large department stores, most of which were flagships of local or regional chains- Osberger&#8217;s, Whitestone&#8217;s, Bradburn&#8217;s, Foster &#38; Asher&#8217;s, Harriman Bros. and even a branch of Gimbels. Of these, only Whitestone&#8217;s is still extant and the Macy&#8217;s in the old Bradburn&#8217;s space is technically the &#8220;cousin&#8221; of the long-dead Osberger&#8217;s, through various mergers and acquisitions (but that would take a flow-chart to accutately explain and our time here is short). Every year, these stores would decorate to the hilt- well, maybe not discount house Harriman Bros., which always played things close to the margin- with trees, garland, lights, fake snow and all of the other trappings associated with good old fashioned city department store Christmas celebrations. Of course, the main component was the store Santa, the big attraction that brought kids into the stores, along with their pursestring-holding parents. In 1952, though, Haskell Bradburn decided to bring the Santas to the city&#8217;s neighborhoods with the creation of the Santamobile. Inspired by the library system&#8217;s bookmobiles, Bradburn outfitted a fleet of ten of his delivery trucks with downsized replicas of his store&#8217;s Santa&#8217;s Toyshop attraction and sent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go There: Future Christmas Wonderland</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/12/11/go-there-future-christmas-wonderland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go There is a feature in which our writers tell you about tourist attractions and other places of interest around the city. In 1960, the downtown Osberger&#8217;s Department Store unveiled the Future Christmas Wonderland, an audio animatronic attraction that took up half of its sixth floor shopping space. Visitors were directed by temporary holiday employees in silver and gold lamé jumpsuits through a winding path past scenes of what Christmas would be like in the distant future. The display was a yearly tradition through the 1975 holiday season, replaced by a bicentennial attraction for 1976-1977 and then a standard &#8220;Santa&#8217;s Workshop&#8221; theme until the store&#8217;s closing in 1993. The pieces of the Future Christmas Wonderland were packed away, presumably forgotten. A few years ago, the family of the man who used to maintain the Wonderland discovered it in a storage space he&#8217;d rented for years near his home in Wicker Hills. When this hit the news, retirees Mary and Lewis Henry called the family and offered to take it off of their hands and they were more than happy to oblige. Mary had been the director of the DiFlorio Children&#8217;s Museum in University Center for many years and thought the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Permanence of Gillard&#8217;s Electric Typewriter Service</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/04/25/gillards-electric-typewriter-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All large cities feature that staple of stand-up comedy, the retail storefront which seems to change hands every few weeks, and our own is no exception. The left-center unit of the Pioneer Square strip mall, currently S.E. Huang&#8217;s Kenpo-Karaterie, was a Spanish-language tax preparation service catering to the South Street area&#8217;s large Ecuadorian population as recently as last November- and, in the summer of 2006, it was a boutique specializing in salsa-related merchandise. Lot 47 in the Galleria at Woldman Heights is particularly infamous in this regard; in the last three years alone, it has been a Wittman&#8217;s, a Sunglass Hut, a Gap for Seniors, a Dobbins Farm Dairy outlet store, and a shop where one could commission tailor-made potato chip varieties. Perhaps more curious, however, is the diametric opposite of this phenomenon: the retail store that has remained exactly the same, regardless of market forces or consumer trends, defying all known rules of shopping for astonishing periods of time. There is no more stubborn an example in the city than that of Gillard&#8217;s Electric Typewriter Service, which has occupied the same spot at 2704 West 31st Avenue since 1911. Located on the ground floor of what was once a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, You Never Knew It! &#8211; Jan. 17</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/01/17/oh-you-never-knew-it-jan-17/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: In 1918, an accident at the Jackson Independent Pharmaceutical Company caused a tank to burst, releasing 1.7 million gallons of the company&#8217;s patented Menth-O-Lux mentholated topical creme (a similar but different-enough-so-as-to-avoid-legal-action competitor to Vicks VapoRub) down Pikers Hill, in the Benson Park neighborhood. The initial six-foot-high wave damaged nearby buildings and killed eleven people and three horses, with the resulting four-foot-deep river of slightly clear muck ensnaring many more as it slowly flowed down hill to the old Lewison Quarry, which had years before become a spring-fed lake. The cleanup took weeks, with virtually the entire city smelling, as the Evening Ledger reported at the time, &#8220;like the sleeping chamber of a weak asth-matic child.&#8221; To this day, people visit the small observation dock at Lewison Quarry during cold and flu season, convinced that the vapors actually do some good. They are more likely to be inhaling oil from automobiles and trolley cars which were discarded in its almost bottomless depths by the city until the mid-1950s. :: With winter weather finally hitting the area this week, the local chapter of PETA has released its schedule of upcoming action events. If you are prone to wearing fur or fur-related [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why it is called &#8220;Black Friday&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2006/11/21/why-it-is-called-black-friday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Friday after Thanksgiving has become known in the last few decades as one of the busiest of the year for retailers, the traditional start of the holiday shopping season. One of the names used for this day is Black Friday, which some say comes from the fact that it is the biggest shopping day of the year, putting stores firmly in the black. This is false, as the days closer to Christmas generate more in sales. For the true origins of the term, we have to dig back a few decades. Laurence H. Black was one of the best floor men in town, working in the men&#8217;s department of the old Osberger&#8217;s Department Store for over thirty years. He had been with the store since its humble beginnings as a menswear store on Richmond Avenue in the late 1920s. Except for a very brief stint in the service during World War II, he remained with the store as it grew, eventually settling into its later eight-floor retail palace on North Geary Street. Black was a fixture in the store, presiding over the suits, shirts, ties and millinery in his ever-present black suit (&#8220;That&#8217;s how they remember me. Black suit, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why it is called &#8220;Black Friday&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Friday after Thanksgiving has become known in the last few decades as one of the busiest of the year for retailers, the traditional start of the holiday shopping season. One of the names used for this day is Black Friday, which some say comes from the fact that it is the biggest shopping day of the year, putting stores firmly in the black. This is false, as the days closer to Christmas generate more in sales. For the true origins of the term, we have to dig back a few decades. Laurence H. Black was one of the best floor men in town, working in the men&#8217;s department of the old Osberger&#8217;s Department Store for over thirty years. He had been with the store since its humble beginnings as a menswear store on Richmond Avenue in the late 1920s. Except for a very brief stint in the service during World War II, he remained with the store as it grew, eventually settling into its later eight-floor retail palace on North Geary Street. Black was a fixture in the store, presiding over the suits, shirts, ties and millinery in his ever-present black suit (&#8220;That&#8217;s how they remember me. Black suit, [...]]]></description>
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