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Lazarus department store was a Columbus institution for nearly 175 years before being absorbed by Macy’s in 2005. Ironically, many Columbus and central Ohio residents associated Lazarus with the ...

No holiday shopping season would be complete without festive window displays. For more than a century, it's been a tradition for department stores and local shops alike to entice shoppers to come ...

The mechanically powered holiday scenes that once filled department-store windows in Canada are still humming. Here’s where to find them. By Ian Austen Decades ago in many Canadian cities, Christmas ...

Jackie Nance Sons is the CEO and Founder of Native Wildflowers Nursery. She is a master gardener and loves to travel. Spring is coming, and retailers everywhere are starting to think about and create ...

Robert Stakeley of the Senator John Heinz History Center gives a presentation Saturday to the Bethel Park Historical Society about the window displays at Kaufmann’s Department Store in Pittsburgh.

Manhattan is merry and bright! New York City’s department stores have decked the halls for the holiday season, with their window displays spreading joy to New Yorkers and visitors alike. “The holiday ...