I\u2019m choking on childhood nostalgia, KCitians.<\/p>\n
Does ANYBODY remember the mechanized dolls in the display windows at Harzfeld\u2019s at Christmastime? And if you do, do you have a decent picture or, better yet, a line on where I can get one of those dolls or six?<\/p>\n
There is a Harzfeld\u2019s page<\/a> and a Harzfeld\u2019s blog<\/a>, both created by historians with a book in the works, but neither has a search feature, and as far as I can tell, A couple years ago a Dresden Doll (right), said to be from Harzfeld\u2019s, was sold at a Kansas City area auction. This was a mechanical doll that may have been part of a Christmas window display.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n (I want want want one of these dolls, even if I have to build one. I\u2019m good at DIY! Promise!)<\/p>\n As an aside, I remember these chairs:<\/p>\n [2025-07-31: Image of a Harzfeld\u2019s \u201ccorset chair\u201d unavailable and I don’t remember what it looked like. That’ll teach me to hot link.]<\/p>\n But a trip to the Harzfeld\u2019s blog yielded something fabulous: Elle Decor<\/em> featured an article on Kansas City<\/a> (worth the read, even for non-Kansas Citians), and the this<\/strike> [dead link] is the only mention of the dolls:<\/p>\npicture gallery<\/strike> [dead link] features the usual suspects, but gorgeous as always.<\/p>\n