Christmas 1997

The holiday season is here again, a time for special festivities and a time for tradition; a time for friends and family and a time for quiet reflection on the year past. Happy holidays - may you be blessed with many more!


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[IMAGE: W. G. Swartz Co. store window ]

Christmas 1944 -- a crowd of shoppers pauses to watch Santa in the window of W. G. Swartz Co.


[IMAGE: Waterside Drive.]

December 1986 -- Norfolk's skyline is aglow for Holidays in the City.


[IMAGE: Diners and gifts]

Christmas dinner at Norfolk's Union Mission - December 1958.


[IMAGE: Postal workers as Santa.]

Norfolk postal workers, c1970.


[IMAGE: Children at mailbox.]

Mailing a letter to Santa at John Marshall School, c1956.

[IMAGE: Band members huddled in blankets]

A concert on the Hague on a cold December night in 1938.

[IMAGE: Counters filled with Christmas crafts.]

Everything for the "do-it-yourselfer" at Woolworth's 5 and 10 store, c1960.

[IMAGE: Children at Christmas tree]

Being in the hospital at Christmas time is tough, but it helps to have some new friends to share it -- Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, 1953.


[IMAGE: Christmas tree and gifts ]

Christmas at Norfolk Police Headquarters, 1966


[IMAGE: Ships.]

Ships at the Norfolk Naval Base, festooned for the holidays with many strings of lights, 1983.


[IMAGE: cartoon]

This message for Norfolk boosters appeared in the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot newspaper in 1913.


[IMAGE: Handing out gifts.]

During World War II, Norfolk's Fairfax Hotel became the "U.S.S. Fairfax" Residential Club. Here, gifts are handed out at a Christmas party in 1944.


[IMAGE: Santa and cheerleaders.]

The annual Maury-Granby Thanksgiving Day football game was a tradition for many years. Here, Santa pays a surprise visit in 1948.

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