It's eerie around Christmas, on one block, there is only one house that shows any sign of Christmas, though in much of the other blocks, houses and yards are lit up like it's a retail space - just no Christian values just phony religiosity.
Of course the area churches preach social justice and "doing good (peanut butter Sundays peak off the charts)."
My parents started taking me to the Country Club Plaza at Christmas and we would drive up and down Ward Parkway beginning in 1945 and then I took my children every year beginning when they were babies. I had not been back at Christmas between 1985 and a quick trip back in 2010. What a HUGE difference in 2010. Not the same area at all. Really missed Harzfeld’s wonderful animated windows as well as Cricket West. Was at Plaza III when the big flood over ran Brush Creek and came through the front window. Wonderful memories.
I often wondered why the Mission Hills people just didn’t move over to the east side of State Line!