This Week in Odessa History

A busy and prosperous holiday shopping season was in store for Odessa merchants 77 years ago.

The Odessa Record gave this report on the wide variety of gift merchandise available in Odessa in the issue of December 13, 1935:

Stores bustling with activity, large additions to sales force, red and green Christmas colors interspersed with gold and silver tinsel in profusion in store windows, dozens of shoppers inquiring about particular gift merchandise indicate that Christmas is less than two weeks away.

If one is to judge by the display of gift merchandise now to be seen in the Odessa stores ther...