Neiman-Marcus Toy Department — 1965
by Paula Bosse
That kangaroo is fab… (click to see it bigger!)
by Paula Bosse
This photo shows the world’s least-cluttered toy department at the then-new Neiman’s store at the then-new NorthPark mall. What were the well-heeled tots of 1965 playing with? Model castles, stuffed tigers, dolls, robots, and kangaroo-shaped slides.
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This photo — “Toy Department, Neiman Marcus, NorthPark”– is from the Stanley Marcus Papers, DeGolyer Library, Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University; more info on the photo can be found here.
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Copyright © 2017 Paula Bosse. All Rights Reserved.
Flashback : Dallas 
The company is a shell of what it once was. As it nears bankruptcy. With billions in debt. Stanley would have never run it into the fround in such manner
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This is digging way back for me, but when Neiman Marcus had the Preston Center store, I think they had a seasonal toy department in the basement – at least in the early years. I think when we moved away in 1960 the basement was no longer customer-accessible.
Way in the back (northeast?) corner of the basement at one time there was a train layout. I remember seeing a little stove that you could actually cook on – and there was one of those crank music-box things (Faventia) – I remember they played it once and it sounded amazing.
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I remember the German made steam engine in toys.
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