was the first Black Santa to appear at Lazarus when he started working at the Downtown store in 1970. Joe Ann Lucas of Groveport also worked at Lazarus, and so did her husband. “Inside the tree, the walls were decorated with graffiti and quite a few rude jokes from years of bored occupants.” Tree, whose voice was provided by local actors and comics hired to “entertain shoppers and occupy the kids,” she said. I had to go into that window multiple times a day to pull out toys because customers insisted on getting that exact toy,” she said. “One year, we did the big corner window with a Toyland theme. Marie Haines, 67, of Columbus, worked in the display department at the Downtown store in the '80s, sprinkling fake snow, decorating the “complex pathway leading shoppers to one of six costumed Santas” and, sometimes fetching toys. 18, 1989: Brief, shining moment for Downtown mall What a great job to get everyone in the Christmas spirit!” she writes.Ĭolumbus Mileposts | Aug. I helped bring the little ones to Santa and took pictures. “I wore a cute little red dress and hat with white fur and high white boots. Kim Bell Baumann, 69, of Gahanna, was one of several readers who remembers becoming a “Santa Belle” for the season.
My friend and I, however, enjoyed a delicious lunch at one of our favorite lunch spots.”
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Needless to say, they ate little lunch as they were full of sugar water when the food arrived. ago Lazarus had, inside the store at the entrance to the restaurant on the right side a counter that sold Godiva Chocolates and on the left, a counter that sold Fresh baked bread and very freshly baked chocolate chip cookies with chocolate chunks of Godiva Chocolate in them.
While we were waiting for our waitress, the children entertained themselves by dropping sugar cubes in their glasses of water to watch the cubes disappear. Then on to the famous Lazarus Tea Roomfor lunch. “There were lots of oohs and aahs from the kids as they viewed all the fabulous decorations, including trees, trains, elves and all the lights. Helen Formet, 101, of Dublin, also shared fond memories. “Even though it was in 1950, it seems like yesterday that my best friend and I took our three children on the streetcar down High Street into Downtown from the University District,” she writes.
Tree’s official song, which can be listened to below.Her sons - now 69 and 70 - “looked soooo forward to seeing Lazarus' window and, of course, Santa Claus!” she said in a note forwarded by Lori Cecutti, who called her “the world's greatest mother-in-law and storyteller.” Get information, directions, products, services, phone numbers, and reviews on Lazarus Department Store in Louisville, undefined Discover more Department. Here in Richland County, we will remember trips to Richland Mall to see Santa and Mr. Tree has a Facebook page, though it’s primarily focused on the flagship Columbus store. Lazarus Department Stores, one of the icons of the American retail industry in Ohio, Indiana and West Viriginia, went through several mergers and was eventually absorbed into the Macy’s brand. Tree, as he was generally referred to, may have frightened you as a child or fascinated you. In the case of Lazarus, though, this is also means spending some time with a talking tree. Although the store, located at the Richland Mall, has long ago closed and was actually re-opened as the Avita Health System’s Ontario Hospital in 2017, memories of Christmases past at Lazarus remain.Ī remembrance of Christmas and a local department store typically means thoughts of visiting Santa. If you grew up in this area, you may remember Christmastime at Lazarus Department Store.
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