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If you were starting a company to produce ceramic replicas of idealized houses for different historical and fictitious settings what would you name it? I’m sure Department 56 is not the first phrase that comes to your mind; so how did it come to theirs? Let’s find out.
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One Christmas, a group of friends planned to celebrate the Holiday with a quiet dinner in Stillwater Minnesota, a peaceful village along the St Croix river. Decorated for the holidays and coated with a fresh blanket of snow, this idyllic and picturesque village captivated the friends. As they dined in a peaceful country inn, charm of the street lights sparkling on the freshly fallen snow evoked an evening of wonderful Christmas memories. The storytelling and memories were the inspiration for recreating this scene with a lighted Christmas village.
Over 30 years ago, Bachman’s, a premiere retail florist in Minneapolis, used a numbering system to identify each of its departments. The wholesale gift division was Department 56. The dream was brought to life when, in 1976, Department 56 introduced a series of six hand-painted, ceramic buildings. These premiere buildings were the foundation of the original Snow Village Series, and the rest is history.
Currently headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Department 56 is a leader in the giftware, collectibles and holiday decorating industry. They are best known for their hand-crafted lighted villages and Snowbabies(TM) figurines.
Some important dates in the history of Department 56 include:
1976 – Department 56 introduces of six charming, lighted, ceramic buildings. The Original Snow Village®.
1979 – Original Snow Village designs retired and 12 new buildings introduced. First Village accessories.
1984 – The Dicken’s Village Series® released (seven nostalgic shops and a church from Victorian England). First village in The Heritage Village Collection®.
1986 – The Heritage Village Collection expanded to include The New England Village Series and The Alpine Village Series® and The World of Snowbabies(TM) figurines are introduced.
1987 – Christmas in the City® and the Little Town of Bethlehem(TM) added to the Heritage Village Collection.
1990 – The North Pole Series(TM) is added to The Heritage Village Collection.
1994 – Introduction of The Disney Parks Village Series(TM) and Snowbunnies®.
1997 – The Classic Ornament Series introduced.
1998 – Seasons Bay(TM), the first year-round village, representing a late 19th-century American resort town.
Elf Land(TM), an extension of the North Pole Series(TM), is introduced. Also, Snow Village Halloween introduced (did you know that Halloween is the second most celebrated holiday in the United States?).
2001 – Special and Limited Edition pieces are designed to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of The Original Snow Village®
2005 – A new mid-tier Village series, “A Christmas Story” is sold exclusively through Sears Department stores.
Today, the Department 56 villages are a treasure of holiday memories that span a variety of times, places and your imagination.
I’m Mark and every year for Christmas, my family & I put together a village display featuring the Department 56 North Pole Village Series buildings and accessories. The scene is completed with a string of lights and a fresh coat of buffalo snow. To find out more, visit our Department 56 Villages blog.
Trying to remember name of a Christmas movie?
All I remember is it had a girl who was traveling to find who father, who maybe was a musician or business man. She was traveling with Santa and a rather large elf. At some point I know there was a hot air balloon. Sorry I can’t give more details but it’s all I remember. Thanks in advance.
In 1989, Wayne Osmond was featured in the movie, “It Nearly Wasn’t Christmas” playing a dad who was trying to make a living for his family as a musician (a piano player on a ship, I think). Is that the one?
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Wee Sing The Best Christmas Ever! $8.36 You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen, but do you recall how to have the greatest Christmas of all? With this “Wee Sing” Yuletide celebration, of course! Gather ’round the TV with your little ones and rejoice in the magic of the holiday season while singing along with some of the best-loved Christmas songs ever. 56 min. Standard; Soundtrack: Engli… |
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The Polar Express $4.98 In adapting Chris Van Allsburg’s beloved, 1986 Caldecott Medal winning children’s Christmas fable, director Robert Zemeckis fused the technologies of live-action motion capture and CGI to an unprecedented degree, producing a visual sensibility that perfectly embodies the netherworld between fantasy and reality that made the book so inviting. Musically, Zemeckis has shrewdly teamed longtime collabo… |
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Elf: Music From The Major Motion Picture $4.93 It takes a pretty deft touch to make us believe towering Will Ferrell as a displaced human cum Santa’s elf, Ed Asner as St. Nick and make a Christmas movie that’s as loopy/sassy as it is seasonally sentimental. Yet that’s what director Jon Favreau has done with this unlikely little holiday gem, and his hand-picked song score underscores its warm heart and comedic smarts with charm to burn. Suffuse… |
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Elf (Full Screen Edition) [VHS] $4.85 Elf is genuinely good. Not just Saturday Night Live-movie good, when the movie has some funny bits but is basically an insult to humanity; Elf is a smartly written, skillfully directed, and deftly acted story of a human being adopted by Christmas elves who returns to the human world to find his father. And because the writing, directing, and acting are all genuinely good, Elf is also genuinely fun… |
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The Santa Clause 3 – The Escape Clause [Blu-ray] $9.64 How about a new villain and a dash of It’s a Wonderful Life to spice up the third installment of the popular Tim Allen holiday franchise? Under the onslaught of another Christmas season, Santa Claus/Scott Calvin (Allen) is feeling even more pressure because Mrs. Claus (Elizabeth Mitchell, reprising her role from The Santa Clause 2) is expecting a little Claus and also longing for the company of s… |
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Wee Sing The Best Christmas Ever! [VHS] $9.98 Christmas Movie. Movie to watch in the comfort of your home…. |
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Elf (Infinifilm Edition) $2.02 Elf is genuinely good. Not just Saturday Night Live-movie good, when the movie has some funny bits but is basically an insult to humanity; Elf is a smartly written, skillfully directed, and deftly acted story of a human being adopted by Christmas elves who returns to the human world to find his father. And because the writing, directing, and acting are all genuinely good, Elf is also genuinely fun… |
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The Polar Express (Widescreen Edition) $3.78 Destined to become a holiday perennial, The Polar Express also heralded a brave new world of all-digital filmmaking. Critics and audiences were divided between those who hailed it as an instant classic that captures the visual splendor and evocative innocence of Chris Van Allsburg’s popular children’s book, and those who felt that the innovative use of “performance capture”–to accurately translat… |
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Last Holiday (Widescreen Edition) $2.98 Queen Latifah stars in this warmly funny remake of the 1950 Alec Guinness film, playing a store clerk who, faced with the news that she will soon pass away from an incurable illness, embraces life to the fullest. Traveling to a swanky Czech resort, she meets a legendary chef (Gerard Depardieu) she has always admired; in short order, however, everyone at the resort soon comes to regard Latifah’s li… |
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