CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Before shopping malls, before online carts, before Christmas showed up on your doorstep in a brown box, downtown Corpus Christi was the holiday destination.
Packed sidewalks. Glowing store windows. And a kind of Christmas magic you couldn’t rewind or stream.
Rare photographs from the 1930s through the 1950s show downtown buzzing during the holidays — families bundled up, storefronts dressed to the nines, and crowds filling the streets. Many of those images were taken by Doc McGregor, a chiropractor-turned-photographer who documented everyday life in Corpus Christi for decades…