Christmas in New York Review
New York seems to be the center of the universe during the Christmas season, from Santa’s arrival in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade to Times Square on New Year’s Eve. After all, New York is the birthplace of electric Christmas tree lights, F.A.O. Schwarz, Lionel trains, and “White Christmas.” Here, Daniel Pool takes readers on a tour of the seasonal attractions and recounts the history of the holiday. 90 photos
What I truly loved about this book, aside from it’s fun, compact, easily tote-able size, is that it tells the story of many beloved New York holiday landmarks and traditions, from the Thanksgiving Day Parade to the Tree at Rockerfeller Center. As a New Yorker, these are integral aspects of Christmas–Celebrated and admired year after year with little question or understanding as to where their traditions stemmed. This book takes you back to the first windows ever displayed on 5th Ave, while telling fun, quirky stories about the Macy’s Parade balloons and how in the early years, they were actually released into the air at the end of every parade. This was eventually halted when an airplane almost crashed into one, and ships on the Atlantic reported strange floating sea creatures! I have always loved New York during the holidays and I feel as if this book has increased my appreciation of them by giving me a greater connection to their origins. It’s a quick read, which is good in one aspect, (it covers a lot of topics) but you don’t get a whole heck of a lot of detail on each topic. Though, it is just enough to keep you interested and moves you right along to the next topic. The only reason I didn’t give this book 5 stars is becuase none of the photographs in the book are color. Personally, I would have been willing to pay slightly more for the book to get color pics.. You just dont do justice to Christmas anything in black and white–but its nice that there are a few pictures, especially that of the first Rockerfeller Christmas tree ever, that workmen erected on the then construction site during the depression. The men spent so much of their time their, they got their own little tree and decorated it with cans and other things that were strewn about… But truly this book would have been much improved if color photographs were included. Otherwise this is a fun coffe table table medley of history and tradition!
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- ISBN13: 9781888363555
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