The mechanically powered holiday scenes that once filled department-store windows in Canada are still humming. Here’s where to find them. By Ian Austen Decades ago in many Canadian cities, Christmas ...

No holiday shopping season would be complete without festive window displays. For more than a century, it's been a tradition for department stores and local shops alike to entice shoppers to come ...

Rike’s department store was known for its decorations and activity around Christmastime. Many Daytonians may remember being enthralled by the animated store windows around the holidays. The iconic ...

It all began a couple of years ago when Adam Koch’s mother sent him a Dayton Daily News clipping about the “Merry Makeover” campaign to redesign the iconic Rike’s animated holiday windows. “I live in ...