This weekend, my children and I had the opportunity to see the Shillito’s Elves display at Newport on the Levee. It was a good time and the elves displays was great to see.

In 2005 Bill Spinnenweber purchased the Santa’s elves from the old Shillito’s department store display. The animatronic elves, were the center of the Downtown department store’s elaborate Christmastime display from the 1950s though the 1980s. The display had the elves reading and organizing letters to Santa, making and painting toys as well as tracking Santa on the big day. At the end of the elves display was a huge, beautiful sparkly Christmas Dickens City.

Also on display was an amazing Lego City created by Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana Lego User’s Group. We had a great time and this was a great way for us to kick off our month-long celebration of the Christmas holiday. How was your weekend?