Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 278, Decatur, Adams County, 25 November 1958 — Page 13

TUESDAY. 'NOVEMBER 25, 1951

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No Santa Claus In Leading Toy Store Best Known Store Gives Its Reason By GAY PAULEY UPI Women's Editor NEW YORK (UPI)— The nat.’or.'s best-known toy store has r»c Santa Claus! This came as quite a shock to me; I expected Santa with his “ho ho ho” and “what do you want for Christmas sonny?” to be as traditional with F.A.O. Schwarz as its catering to the carriage trade. “We don’t have a Santa because we don’t believe anyone can imitate the old gentleman,” said Charles Veysey, executive vice-president of the 96-year-old company. “Santas after all are to attract children, and we don’t need to do that.” “One year,” he added, “someone dreamed up the idea we should have some telephone Santas; let the children call and at least talk. The result was pandemonium. Our switchboard was jammed. Businessmen complained they couldn’t get a call home to their wives to tell 'em what train they’d be on. We gave this up in a hurry.” Wonderland For Kids But even without Saint Nick the store is a wonderland for children, and nostalgic adults at this time’ of the year. Especially a wonderland if pop is well-heeled. Casing two floors of what Veysey said was 20.000 square feet of space containing 9,000 types of toys, I found these staffers for the Christmas stocking: A cedar log cabin, measuring six by nine feet, with porch and lookout tower, for $563. Vesey

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said eight already had been sold by mail order, including one to a customer in Switzerland. A child-size Thunderbird, bat-tery-powered for $507; an offwhite monkey, who sits and smokes (honest), fas' $295; a sixfoot, stuffed oitapi, for $295; a life-like cow, who chews her cud, for $175; A grocery store with groceries for $95; a toy refrigerator, bigger than some of those in modem apartment kitchens, for SSO; a sink, for $72.50; and a two-story colonial doll house, for $2lB. “That includes the curtains,” said a saleswoman. Good Year For Missiles Veysey assured me there are are plenty of toys less astronomical in price — some for as low as sl. But it’s toe larger sales that get mentioned most frequently. There was the year a customer bought an entire electric train display for $3,000; the time a Canadian bought a whole window display which included reindeer, huskie, seal, Eskimo and simulated ice. Veysey said toy preferences run in cycles, and this year looks like a good one for individual items such as a ballistic missile, a satellite launcher, and a fish that swallows another. Sometimes even with all its years of experience, Schwarz misjudges the length of a cycle. “We’re still trying to get rid of Davy Crockett caps,” toe store's chief buyer said. Family Breadwinner GRAND BAY, Ala. (UPD— While out dove-hunting with his father, Robert (Bobo) Cunningham, 11, spent his time gathering wild cucumbers—4o pounds of them. Dad didn’t get any dove, but Bobo sold his catch for $4.80 and treated toe family to a steak.

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