The G. Fox & Co. Christmas Village

This video remembers the two Christmas villages that appeared on the marquee of the G. Fox & Company department store in Hartford, Connecticut. The first village was created in 1959 and the second in 1967.
Original 8mm movie of the Christmas village from 1960: • 1960 Christmas Scene H...
The Early History of G. Fox & Company (Hartford, CT)
• The Early History of G...
The Growth of G. Fox & Company, Hartford, CT from 1917 to the 1960s:
• The Growth of G. Fox &...
Christmas display, G. Fox, Hartford, 1959:
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[@TT-fl8jt]

G.Fox had the best Christmas displays! It was beautiful! Especially seeing all those lights as a kid! G.Fox downtown was such a glamourous store! Stunning and classy.

[@DeniseinAsheville]

I remember these so well. We always look forward to the Christmas displays.

[@robertroddy]

Enjoyed the video, the former mayor of Hartford Ann Ucello has just died at 100. When I researched her it said she worked here which bought me to your video.

[@historywithdansterner263]

Thanks for watching my video! I am sad to hear of Ann Ucello's passing.

[@warrenguy76]

I’m seeing this display for the very first time and it’s so cool! Thanks for the video!

[@UncleTravelingMatt2]

I got to experience the Christmas displays here when I was a little kid in the early 90s. Yes, they had them even then. It had to have been right before they closed because I was 7 in 1993 the year they closed.

[@Bronson2024]

I remember my sister taking me to G Foxes. We took the bus from Wapping CT to Hartford for 25 cents. I was alway thrilled to ride the elevator with the elevator operator wearing a uniform.

[@historywithdansterner263]

Thanks for sharing that memory!

[@arbrimmer3813]

We loved to go see the G Fox display around Christmas time when we were kids,Our parents woul take us owntown to see the isplay and Constitution Plaza lighting tat was just after thanksgivin to see the plaza all ecorated and lit so nicely,It seeme like a great time to grow up to see all these isplays,Thanks for sharing with all of us Dan!

[@historywithdansterner263]

Thanks for watching!

[@rovingdesigner7431]

Dan- You outdid yourself again! What a wonderful video history of a storied display. You kind of wish someone would create a third generation of this...even if G.Fox is no longer there.

[@historywithdansterner263]

I was thinking the same thing! I wonder if Capitol Community College would be interested?

[@LouiseKoss]

Wonderful video. It sure does take me back.

[@davidagiborah]

Nice job Dan!!!! Darcie :)

[@Anitasemp]

I remember this display 💖

[@Hadd13]

I Remember it well great video Dan

[@historywithdansterner263]

Thanks!

[@billvolovski2440]

Just curious, does anyone know what became of the various Christmas buildings?

[@reneecase5324]

Yes, I was wondering that too, it certainly seems like something an employee would have saved?

[@ropeburnsrussell]

Maybe they became doll houses.

[@junkandthangs]

I'll have to watch this later, just turned the notification bell as well... didn't know it was off. 2am at work training, can't watch right now

[@LoveTierraElizabeth]

I remember this!!!!!! I always looked forward to this!!!

[@ELLIS1737]

Excellent video, I love your commentary about the Christmas villages. Dan, you are a great Hartford historian; thank you for all the time and effort you spent creating these masterpieces. Your work will be appreciated for many years to come.

[@historywithdansterner263]

Thank you for watching and thanks again for your help with that 8mm film!

[@cherylcohen8965]

I sure do remember it! Thanks for the memories!💓

[@junkandthangs]

at about the 4 minute mark there’s a building north of G Fox (not the Youth Center) across Talcott Street but then when the new display was shown soon after that big building isn’t there, just like today it looks like a surface lot. What was that building just north of G Fox. I think I just remembered as I was typing… storage area for G Fox maybe?

[@pamelalevy6042]

Maybe it was the garage? It had a car elevator which we kids thought was the coolest thing on earth.

[@junkandthangs]

@@pamelalevy6042 it was right up front along Main Street, not back by the bridge

[@joane.landers9151]

As I recall, there was a parking garage, just North of G.Fox & on the same side (East) of Main Street as G. Fox.

[@ropeburnsrussell]

Friends of mine got to see it, but my family never went😢.

[@emerogork5376]

It would have been nice if a sentence or two was included to describe how they were assembled for the display and then disassembled for storage the rest of the year. How long did it take to set up the display? Where are the parts of the display today.

[@historywithdansterner263]

I would have to ask the Wethersfield company that fabricated the buildings.

[@AmyCiota-tn5qc]

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