Ignaz Gorischek - 19 - "Paid to play" and Christmas windows
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Ignaz Gorischek - 19 - "Paid to play" and Christmas windows
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Crawl tubes amazing to watch people everyday after work, windows were always unique but holidays were always most special, enjoyed reinstating holiday trees in the Palladian windows (Stanely Marcus tradition of trees ended in 1960s), would work on trees up to a year in advance, HGTV holiday tree coverage several years in the 1990s and early 2000s to follow concept and making, importance of starting traditions, created "City Lights" event that drew around 40k people with Santa flying in on a jetpack and repel from a helicoper and zipline in from blocks away, all to unveil holiday windows, "like putting on a fortnight just for holiday," people would come year after year with one couple whose life developed every year and City Lights became a family tradition