{"id":2196,"date":"2012-12-19T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/?p=2196"},"modified":"2015-01-08T17:27:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T22:27:24","slug":"sunday-christmas-shoppers-at-kaufmanns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2012\/12\/19\/sunday-christmas-shoppers-at-kaufmanns\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Christmas shoppers at Kaufmann\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Photo by Anthony Kaminski, The Pittsburgh Press) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Cash registers rang out a Merry Christmas tune in the three biggest stores in the Golden Triangle on this particular Sunday. Retailers that had been banned from conducting Sunday sales for years by Pennsylvania\u2019s Blue Laws finally opened their doors on that day to Christmas shoppers.<\/p>\n

According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, stores opened for Sunday business after the state Supreme Court issued orders prohibiting prosecution of Blue Law violators \u201cuntil the validity of the controversial statutes can be tested in the courts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Downtown streets, particularly Grant and Smithfield streets and Liberty and Sixth avenues, were jammed with cars most of the afternoon. Shoppers crowded the main sales floors of Gimbels and Kaufmann\u2019s. And people seemed to be buying, not just looking, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cash registers rang out a Merry Christmas tune in the three biggest stores in the Golden Triangle on this particular Sunday.<\/p>\n

Look at the picturesSunday Christmas shoppers at Kaufmann\u2019s<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[946],"tags":[972,1143,982,1198,1042,1195],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tumblr_mf6rmqCmFC1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C1041&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2003,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2013\/03\/01\/tension-arrests-during-pittsburghs-department-store-strike\/","url_meta":{"origin":2196,"position":0},"title":"Tension, arrests during Pittsburgh\u2019s 1950s department store strike","date":"March 1, 2013","format":"gallery","excerpt":"We found in our files several dozen photographs made during the department store strike of 1953-55.","rel":"","context":"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tumblr_miyecaiG0p1rr5swxo2_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C905&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2210,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2012\/12\/13\/christmas-eve-streetcar-tragedy\/","url_meta":{"origin":2196,"position":1},"title":"Christmas Eve streetcar tragedy","date":"December 13, 2012","format":"gallery","excerpt":"You\u2019d think the conductor and motorman on trolley car 4236 would be civil to each other on Christmas Eve.","rel":"","context":"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tumblr_meyao7ktlV1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C996&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2266,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2012\/11\/21\/christmas-parade-in-downtown-pittsburgh\/","url_meta":{"origin":2196,"position":2},"title":"Christmas parade in Downtown Pittsburgh","date":"November 21, 2012","format":"gallery","excerpt":"Back then, the parade route was different.","rel":"","context":"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tumblr_mdjmsnC2pt1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=975%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2224,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2012\/12\/07\/young-men-volunteer-for-army-air-corps-after-pearl-harbor-attack\/","url_meta":{"origin":2196,"position":3},"title":"Young men volunteer for Army Air Corps after Pearl Harbor attack","date":"December 7, 2012","format":"gallery","excerpt":"Pittsburgh was \u201ccoming to a slow boil\u201d one day after Japanese fighter planes attacked Pearl Harbor, the Post-Gazette reported.","rel":"","context":"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tumblr_mem63pDWmw1rr5swxo1_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C792&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1213,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2013\/11\/15\/the-downtown-kaufmanns\/","url_meta":{"origin":2196,"position":4},"title":"The Downtown Kaufmann\u2019s","date":"November 15, 2013","format":"gallery","excerpt":"It may be called Macy\u2019s now. 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