The Pink Pig (installed in 1956, and known originally as The Snowball Express) was a child-scaled monorail which was suspended from the ceiling of a portion of the Plaza level of the Store for Homes. Riders had a bird’s-eye view of the toy department below. In 1965, it was moved to the roof of the store where a second monorail was added and the duo became known as the Pink Pig Flyers (receiving the names of Priscilla and Percival in the 1970s). The front car of the trains had pig faces and the last cars had curly tails. For many years after the closure of the downtown store, the Pink Pigs were set up at the Festival of Trees at the Georgia World Congress Center.
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I can only barely remember it because I was a little kid at the time (looking at the history of it, it was probably the very last year before it shut down, or close to it). What I do know is that the suspended monorail at the Rich’s downtown was way better than the imitation BS they have at the Macy’s at Lenox these days.
The Pink Pig (installed in 1956, and known originally as The Snowball Express) was a child-scaled monorail which was suspended from the ceiling of a portion of the Plaza level of the Store for Homes. Riders had a bird’s-eye view of the toy department below. In 1965, it was moved to the roof of the store where a second monorail was added and the duo became known as the Pink Pig Flyers (receiving the names of Priscilla and Percival in the 1970s). The front car of the trains had pig faces and the last cars had curly tails. For many years after the closure of the downtown store, the Pink Pigs were set up at the Festival of Trees at the Georgia World Congress Center. Here is the article
I’ve ridden the Pink Pig!
I can only barely remember it because I was a little kid at the time (looking at the history of it, it was probably the very last year before it shut down, or close to it). What I do know is that the suspended monorail at the Rich’s downtown was way better than the imitation BS they have at the Macy’s at Lenox these days.