When I was a little kid, back in the late 30s and early 40s in Chicago, my parents would take me downtown to the Loop shopping district and we'd look at all the extra-carefully elaborately decorated fascinating store windows. A high point in my Christmas season!
Now, in these days of shopping malls and the like, I wonder if any stores in any cities still do this? And if they do, if families still go to see them? There is nothing like this in my small city.