We all have special memories, scents and/or special ornaments that mean Christmas to us. One of my fondest memories that Christmas was coming was going downtown with my mother and sister (yes, Virginia, before conglomerate malls, people did dress up and go into ‘town’) to look at the window displays in the large department stores. They were truly wonders to behold. Designers would go to great lengths to create engaging displays with mechanical toys and charming villages that glittered and glowed with hundreds of lights, fake snow and bows everywhere while music poured out of loudspeakers to draw you into their store. In mimic of this confectioned delight, one could go to the five and dime and purchase little villages made out of painted chipboard and adorned with lots of glitter and mica snow to display on mantles or tabletops festooned in batting and bottle brush trees sprayed with flocking. Of course some of them even had holes in the back to put lights in so your village could glow or candles awaited the anticipated eve to be lit for Santa to see when he came to deposit his goods under your tree.
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