Black Friday has become a prominent informal holiday that marks the beginning of America’s Christmas shopping season. Retailers take this opportunity to attract customers by offering irresistible discounts as part of their marketing strategy. And […]
Do you ever wonder why we carve our gobblers on the fourth Thursday of November? Hint: It’s not because Thanksgiving Thursday is more alliterative than Thanksgiving Friday. In 1789, President George Washington declared Thursday, Nov. […]
While plenty of people eat turkey, mashed potatoes, and pie year-round, it seems like cranberry sauce almost exclusively exists in the Thanksgiving universe. Although we don’t know for sure whether it was eaten at the very first […]
Turkey, Grandma’s stuffing, and avoiding political discussions with out-of-town family members aren’t the only Thanksgiving Day traditions. The Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys of the NFL also have a tradition of playing football games every […]
Back in May of 1984, a 35-year-old former ice-cream truck driver from Lebanon Ohio named Michael Larson flew to California to audition for the CBS game show, Press Your Luck. Michael was no ordinary contestant […]
In today’s world of specialty shops, discount superstores, and all the choices we have online, it’s hard to imagine the role the department store once played in American life. Each town had one of these […]
Seinfeld, a show about nothing, actually gave us something for the holidays: a new December tradition in which everyone can participate. On December 18, 1997, all of us were introduced to Festivus, the holiday “for […]
Every year on Thanksgiving morning, while countless turkeys are roasting in the oven, over 3 million people bundle up and line the streets of New York to watch the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. In […]
In 1939, with the depression still casting a shadow over sales and war worries depressing the general mood, executives at Montgomery Ward were looking for a special Christmas draw to lure shoppers. Traditional themes – […]
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