Hudson's in its heyday, employed two display personnel per floor. At Christmas the main floor was decorated with dozens of Christmas trees impeccably decorated in different themes. Literally thousands of glass ornaments were strung together and hung in bunches in the inner part of the trees, and amazing themed ornaments on the tips. The other floors were also decorated lavishly. When the trees were taken down, all the glass ornaments were crushed.
[[they were dusty and required too much time and money to store) On the long walk to see Santa,miniature amazingly elaborate displays at kid's eye level were created in windows along the route. No expense was spared. Compare that to the paltry and unimaginative Christmas displays in department stores, including Macy's today. Only Manhattan department stores retain the tradition today.
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