Holiday memories..

 I watched as they lit up the Santa and sleigh display on the side of the PNC bank building this evening, always a fun occasion.  If I'm being honest, I was not out there in the mob of people standing in line for hot dogs from Coney Island while they waited for the lighting.  I enjoyed the festivities from the comfort of my recliner, but it still brought back fun memories.  When I was very young, probably five years old, my father drove us down town to see Santa and his reindeer on the side of Wolf & Dessauer's Department Store.  If you Google Wolf & Dessauer's Christmas windows you can see what it looked like.  We also walked around outside to see the beautifully decorated windows with all the moving figures, and, and this is most important, W&D's had the real Santa Claus.  Years later I worked in the same real estate company with the real Santa in his every day disguise.  He was a delightfully jolly soul even then.