Where to find holiday things that aren’t there anymore

In a region where the concept of “Things That Aren’t There Anymore” is documentary-worthy, is it so surprising that we can feed that hunger this holiday season?

The Heinz History Center’s A Very Merry Christmas features holiday things that aren’t there anymore, including Santa’s chair from Kaufmann’s Santaland, and the mailbox thousands of locals used to send Christmas wish lists to the North Pole.

While most of us are probably hoping to make new holiday memories, would we be real Pittsburghers if we didn’t feed our nostalgia, too?

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– Paul Furiga, WordWrite