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When the Christmas Toy Land opened in the J.W. Knapp Co. department store, there were toys to delight every boy and girl. In 1912, the department store's Doll Land had 5,000 brand new dolls, including ...

You might think “A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens’ fable of redemption, is just a part the holiday. But in fact, it pretty much started the whole thing. This weekend, KPCC’s Off-Ramp program, ...

From an electric ice cream scooper to a dipstick cleaner, the newest gadgets on holiday shopping lists in 1983 looked a lot different from what's available today. From an electric ice cream scooper to ...

With Christmas just a few days away, From the Archives goes back to Christmas Eve 1958 with this outstanding picture of a holiday party for a baby gorilla, chimpanzee, and orangutan at the San Diego ...

When temperatures drop, the culture wars heat up. For many, Christmas isn’t just a time to count blessings with friends and family, don loud sweaters and pound eggnog — it’s a season so vital that ...

Mickey Mouse in Whitney's Christmas Parade, Albany, New York. November 14, 1964 (Times Union Archive) The W.M. Whitney & Co. store put on an annual Christmas parade in downtown Albany with Santa Claus ...

Maybe it’s because I’m a pastor and my social media is flooded with churchy headlines and hashtags, but I’ve grown weary of the Christmas tradition of bemoaning the commercialization of the season and ...

“The Christmas celebration in Germanic lands is not an invention of the Christian Church but of our forefathers. The day of the Winter Solstice was holy to our ancestors and the period around the ...

Oh ho ho. Welcome to the financial district in San Francisco. And what may go down in shopping history is the first yuppie Christmas young urban professionals. Yuppies go to places like this. It's ...