1. My mother would make us dress in our Sunday best for a trip to Boston. If Dad was taking us, he'd drive to Woodland Station, park the Dodge or the green Studebaker wagon, and we'd take the streetcar to Park St. If Ma was taking us by herself, we'd take the bus from the end of our street to Park Sq. Ma would hurry us through the Combat Zone (red light district) on lower Washington St. to the store
2. From Park St. we'd walk a block over to Washington St. where Ma would do Christmas shopping at Jordan Marsh and Company. (In 1996 Jordan's was bought out by Macy's)
3. When her shopping was done, she'd take us upstairs in the store to The Enchanted Village. While waiting in line to see the Big Man, we'd be entertained by a huge Christmas display of mechanical dolls, lights, and electric trains.
4. After, we'd get to have lunch at Kresge's lunch counter, a baloney and onion sandwich though I had mine with yellow mustard and no onions.
5. Before going home, we'd get to walk around Boston Common looking at the Christmas lights and the skaters on the Frog Pond.
Did you do anything like this when you were a kid?
We used to go to see the windows on Fifth Ave. And we continued the tradition when our kids were little until we moved away from NY.
ReplyDeleteWe used to drive around on Christmas Eve after the church service to see all the lights.
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