Lynda Luxton’s 53 Years Fond Memories of Santa & Christmas at Vancouver Downtown Woodward’s
Many long time Vancouver residents have fond memories of the old downtown Woodward’s store. It was a place where they came to shop and socialize and during Christmas time, posed with Santa inside the department store too.
Ask Lynda Luxton and she will tell you all about it. On December 16, 2010 she returned to the newly-renovated original 1903 building that now housed the TD Bank and reunited with Santa for old time’s sake. She got to relive that treasured feeling of posing with the jolly old fellow with a white beard way back in the 1950s when she was just a little girl. Luxton also brought along a well-preserved sepia-toned photo taken in 1957 depicting herself and her sister Carole and brother Ronnie sitting on Santa’s lap serving as a testament of the times throughout all these years.
The rejuvenated Downtown Woodward’s is now a mixed-use building complex which contains SFU Woodwards with The Fei & Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, commercial retail spaces, a community arts centre, upscale apartment units and non-market social housing. In January of 2010, the famed ‘W’ sign that was a famous Vancouver landmark for so many years had also been reinstated to its original rightful place atop the newly-redeveloped Woodward’s building on Hastings and Abbott street.
Woodward’s Building, Hastings and Abbott street
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