I am a full time store window designer and fabricator for a company in New York City and as you can guess, now is the middle of my busy season. My assistants and I are cranking full force to get our windows perfect for the big tourist onslaught. When we are installing the weeks before Thanksgiving we, the workers become the tourist draw during the days of installation. I have had people come by everyday sometimes more than once to watch the progress.
A few years ago I worked at the Rockefeller Center location and I was able to sneak a MTH standard gauge Girls set into the holiday display window. The store was carrying the set that year as a special product even though they do not usually carry trains. The prominent window was seen by thousands waiting in line to see the Rockettes and the big Christmas tree.
Moral of the story is that there are still holiday windows in the 21st century of stores that do not normally carry toy trains featuring them in their windows and there are still handcrafted display windows that are not flat printouts from home office.
