Pip the Mouse makes a return

A local holiday tradition returned to its original site — sort of — when Pip the Mouse began appearing in a window at PPL Plaza, essentially the site of Pip’s former home, Hess’s Department Store, where the mouse began appearing in 1962.

What’s next? Pip will appear Fridays through Sunday through Dec. 27, and on Christmas and New Year’s Eve.

COURTESYPHOTO Pip the Mouse will“perform”his annual“The Mouse Before Christmas” show in a window at PPL Plaza, Ninth and Hamilton streets in Allentown with eight show times running on the half-hour, noon to 3:30 p.m. Fridays through Sundays.