(Thank you, @sirenofthesea) If there was one picture that represented your childhood memories of Christmas (or other holiday celebrations), what would it be ? This is mine—Pop took us to see the tree lighting every year…
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Midtown mall in downtwon Rochester and seeing Santa on top of Magic Mountain then riding the monorail around the entire mall court amd eventually through a tunnel that ran through magic mountain.
Afterwards going over to Sibley's where they had the Toyland tunnel. Which was this dark amd kinda spooky tunnel with all these Christmas animatronics from the 40's,50's, and 60's. Kinda like a Christmas dungeon. At the end you got a Rudolph coloring book amd a kazoo shaped like a trombone.
I was born just in time to see this spectacle because by early 90's Midtown Mall was a sinking ship and the place really turned into a dump afyer that. But man was it great.
@bijouxbroussard It was a gas. It's kinda sad Midtown went downhill after the suburban malls took over. Downtown Rochester just kina went to shit and lost any reason to really go there because of it. It was an amazing building when it was bustling. Depresssing AF when the stores started leaving. Like I said I got to see it at the tail end, the last ten years maybe, of when it was the place to go. But if you were a little kid in the 50's up until the late 80's this was the Christmas spot to be.
