Remember Cobo Hall Christmas display?

[MustangMan]

Wow, you guy's are great!! It sure is nice to hear other people's memories' about a time that will alway's be one of my favoite "Detroit" memories'. Thank's

[Bodybagging]

I remember a christmas festival event at cobo hall, to a young boy it was a wonderful experience!

[Lorax]

Not to threadjack here, but does anyone remember the tudor house on Jefferson Ave. in Grosse Pointe Farms, near Rose Terrace that had a Christmas "village" set up behind the gates in their front driveway?

As a kid of 12 or so I remember going there several times. It created quite a traffic jam, and was open only after dark to show off the lights and automatons bobbing around in the village houses and shops.

[krapug1]

The Cobo Hall Christmas Carnival became even larger for a time in the 1980's after Hudson's closed downtown. This started with the Christmas Season of 1983.
One season Hudson's had it's "Little People's Shop" set up a Cobo, another year
[[84, or 85) they set it up at the Ren Center.

For the "youngins" on the forum, The Little Peoples Shop was a special Christmas Season department where kids could buy inexpensive gifts for their parents, teachers, and the like.

Ken

[Poet1959]

I want to ses an image of the big Snowman slide that's displays during Christmas time at CoBo hall in détroit. Mich. The links posted here dont work. TIA Send To: tmat1959@gmail.com

[stasu1213]

I remember going to the Christmas Party and carnival at Cobo Hall in 1970

[detlump]

Maybe with the Auto Show moving to the summer, the Christmas Festival could return to Cobo. I know winter blast is after the holidays, but maybe the Christmas Festival could be a kickoff for a bunch of winter events downtown.

[Sandhouse]

Ray1936,

I was about to post a note asking whether I recalled correctly that the Cobo Hall display was a response to loss of the Ford Rotunda, so you're not the only one who remembers this. I recall being taken there in its first[[?) year around 1962 or `63, probably as a diversion from a trip to Hudson's.

The only thing I remember is a big installation of AMT-brand slot cars, the only time I saw these sophisticated, rare, toys.