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James Edgar (1843 – 1909) was a businessman who has been credited with being the one who first came up with the idea of dressing up as Santa Claus for Christmas. [1] He started the tradition in 1890 in his Brockton, Massachusetts , department store.
Trains brought families from Boston and Providence to Edgar's to see Santa. In the early 1960s Edgar's was bought by Almy, Bigelow and Washburn, Inc. The corporation ran department stores under various names in eastern Mass. By the mid 70s, some of the stores were renamed "Almy's." The store sold clothing, home goods, jewelry, cosmetics and ...
Grotto at Queensgate Shopping Centre, Peterborough, England Santa's Workshop at Dayton's Department Store in Minneapolis. The world's first Christmas grotto was in Lewis's Bon Marche department store in Liverpool, England. [5] The grotto was opened in 1879, entitled "Christmas Fairyland." [5] The idea then took hold in the rest of the UK. [6]
Macy's got its start as America's first department store before the Civil War, and with all the ups and downs of the last 160+ years, the brand still lives on today.
In 1937, Charles W. Howard, who played Santa Claus in department stores and parades, established the Charles W. Howard Santa School, the oldest continuously run such school in the world. [43] In some images from the early 20th century, Santa was depicted as personally making his toys by hand in a small workshop like a craftsman.
Nine years later, the first known association between reindeer and Santa Claus appeared in an anonymous poem entitled “A New Year’s Present”. The unnamed deer are mentioned briefly and only ...
While still at Wanamaker's department store, Lawfer began decorating his own store as early as Christmas in 1904. Lawfer's was the first local department store to feature a separate toy department that it called "Toyland". At the center of the toy display that Christmas was a twenty-four-foot-tall, one-ton figure it called "Santa Claus’ Father."
His Santa journey began in 1988, when he was hired as a decorator by the Nordstrom store at San Diego’s Horton Plaza; his ebullient personality made him an obvious candidate for the Kris Kringle ...