JAN 26 1979: Will Spring Ever Get Here? A passing shopper looks longingly into the window of Neusteters department store at 16th and Stout streets, where the mannequins are modeling breezy spring fashions. (Dave Buresh, Denver Post file photo)
I was visiting New York not too long ago — a little before Christmas — and I happened to be in midtown, which doesn’t really happen all that often. But I found that I couldn’t resist taking the opportunity to take a look at some of the department store window displays, which are always done up at that time of year. Stores don’t really make great use of those window displays anymore, and it’s not new to say that, and it would be disingenuous to say that there’s some nostalgia around it for me, or at least authentic nostalgia, because I’m frankly too young for that.
But maybe there is some imprinted nostalgia.
Because now those window displays really do mean Christmas, and looking at them in New York I got the same kind of sweet, melancholy feeling I get when I think about the many Christmases I’ve spent with my family, and so I texted home to say where I was and that I was looking at the holiday window displays.
But this one, pictured here, was just a window display. It probably didn’t have any of that meaning loaded into it. It was used all year round, and in this case, a little tauntingly. And with backwards arms for some reason. And look: The RTD signs haven’t changed much, have they?
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