Best Pittsburgh Holiday Memory Contest

[Joanne Quinn-Smith]

Best Pittsburgh Holiday Memory Contest: Win $40.00 in Gift Certificates to Nakama or Tambellini 7th St.

All You have to do is post your best Pittsburgh Holiday Memory in the forum right here. Reply to this one. If you are a member, just join the group, answere the Pittsburgh Profile Questions and Create Your Own Positive Pittsburghers Page.

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Here's my best Pittsburgh Christmas Memory.

I lived in lower Fayette County and mom brought me once a week to Pittsburgh on the Greyhound Bus for allergy treatments. I always loved seeing the lights on the side of the old Horne's Department Store. Then we had to take the trolley to Oakland and we waited right under Kaufmann's clock for the trolley so I got to see all of the wonderful decorations in Kaufmann's window. Once in a while mom would take me inside jsut to see the decorations, we never brought anything because my dad was a coal miner. In those days coal miners did not make a lot of money. But to me it was just exciting to be in a store that big with all of that stuff and all of those decorations. Of course it was free to visit Santa Claus and somehow the big city Santa in Pittsburgh was always a little better and more convincing than the one in Uniontown, no malls at that time.

But the real treat was being able to ride the escalator and look down at the floor below and pretend that all of the decorated displays were Santa's workshop. Now if I was really good, mom would take me on the elevator and I loved to hear the attendant, say, "10th floor, bedding, furniture and appliances," and call out all the floors in between.

Now most of you are wondering if I am old enough to remember elevator operators that called out the floors, how in the world can I remember when I was seven or eight. All I have to say is: "A good memory lasts a lifetime.

Here's hoping you make great Pittsburgh Holiday memories with your kids like my mom did with me." Whatever you call the holiday or whatever you celebrate, just keep on making those memories.

Editor, PositivelyPittsburghLiveMagazine.com, Publisher, Positive Pittsburghers
Joanne "LaMonica" Quinn-Smith

[Judy Tornoff Pometto Duffy]

HI JOANNE:
MY FAVORITE MEMORY OF A PITTSBURGH CHRISTMAS WAS CHRISTMAS DAY AROUND 1983. I ALWAYS ORDERED A CAKE FROM POTOMAC BAKERY THAT STATED "HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS". I WOULD MAKE CELESTE, TONY AND JOEY SING HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JESUS CHRISTMAS MORN BEFORE THEY COULD OPEN ANY GIFTS.
THIS YEAR MY MOM HAD A STROKE AND THERE WAS AN ICE STORM CHRISTMAS EVE. I ARRIVED AT POTOMAC BAKERY AFTER VISITING HER IN THE HOSPITAL AND IT WAS CLOSED. BUT THE OWNER "MR. TATE" (if i am remembering his name correctly) TOOK MY CAKE TO MY MOTHER-IN-LAWS HOUSE AFTER THE BAKERY CLOSED SO I WOULD BE SURE TO HAVE IT FOR CHRISTMAS MORNING. HE WAS A WONDERFUL MAN AND GAVE ME THIS WONDERFUL MEMORY OF CHRISTMAS SPIRIT.

[Joanne Quinn-Smith]

What a wonderful memory, Judy of Pittsburghers and how they typically go the extra mile for friends, family, customers and often just acquaintances or strangers. Have a blessed Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Thanks for sharing. Hopefully you will inspire many others to share also.

[Judy Tornoff Pometto Duffy]

HI JOANNE:

I REMEMBER THE ELEVATOR OPERATOR'S IN JOSEPH HORNES AND KAUFMANN'S. AMAZING WHAT WE DO REMEMBER.