Feb 5, 2018 · The former downtown York Bon-Ton's interior today. It serves as a county office building, a controversial move by county commissioners in the 1990s. Opponents felt the millions in...

The Bon-Ton wasn’t alone in the holiday pin business downtown. Roger Fuller of Yoe shared this Christmas pin from Bear’s Department Store, which he got at an estate sale. ‘I never knew that Bear’s gave out Santa pins until i saw this one at the sale,’ he noted.

Apr 23, 2018 · Only in York County reader Tom Keasey recalls The Bon-Ton at its downtown York, PA, location. The department store...

Sep 3, 2022 · In 1898, Samuel Grumbacher (and son, Max) opened a one-room millinery store on Market Street in York. The store eventually filled a handsome building on a main intersection of the downtown.

Dec 25, 2014 · Stephen H. Smith with Santa Claus in The Bon-Ton Toyland; downtown York, PA, during 1952 (Collection of S. H. Smith) During the early 1950s, some of my earliest memories are of going Christmas shopping in downtown York with my parents.

Jul 11, 2017 · This postcard is of The Bon-Ton’s former location in downtown York. It’s a “Commercialchrome” card published by Fair & Square Bargain House of York, PA. It was mailed by Lucy Snyder of East King Street, York, to Freda Hatt of Annville, Ohio, with a …

Dec 21, 2014 · June Kester's is one of many who remember pieces of The Bon-Ton and other department stores in downtown York. There's one particular blank she's looking to fill.

Best known for hosting Santa during the holiday season, who arrived via the York airport astride a fire truck, the building and department store are fondly remembered by most of York’s older residents.

Mar 1, 2021 · What started as a small dry goods store soon grew into Lebanon’s largest department store, The Bon Ton. Throughout its 67 years in business, The Bon Ton proudly touted itself as “Lebanon’s Greatest Store” in daily advertisements …

Santa’s annual visit to the Bon-Ton and downtown York, Pa., came after he landed first in the York Airport along Roosevelt Avenue and later its Thomasville location.