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"Christmas" Removed From Plaza in Philadelphia, Will Now Become "Holiday" Village
Crews remove the word "Christmas" from the sign at Dilworth Plaza. VANCE LEHMKUHL / Daily News Staff
philly.comIt's that season again, which means that for the third year in a row, the German Christmas Village has set up a cozy collection of wooden booths and tree vendors in Dilworth Plaza on the west side of City Hall.So Philly.com has a poll next to the story asking if people were offended by the word "Christmas"
But a few shoppers noticed something amiss yesterday on the tall metal archways signaling the entrances to the shops. The archways had just one word on top - "Village."
It turns out that the letters spelling "Christmas" were removed yesterday afternoon from the archways on the north and west sides of the plaza, at the request of Managing Director Richard Negrin. They will be replaced with the word "Holiday."
City spokesman Mark McDonald said Negrin asked for the change after the city received complaints from workers and residents.
Thomas Bauer, of the German American Marketing Inc., which runs the Village, said he was happy to change the sign. He said the brochures and the posters would keep the Christmas Village title.
"People have to go to public buildings. They shouldn't feel offended," Bauer said, stressing that the name was not intended to upset anyone. "It's been very successful the last two years. People like the name. We built it like a German Christmas market. We did not think a lot about it."
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