I was born in the 60's, although my parents sure lived like it was 1955 until the late 70's! LOL! We had old fashioned TV's, tables, clothes, sinks, etc. I can relate to these pictures and times, even if I was about 15 years too late (as a small child). However, let's not forget the nostalgia factor. We always love the past. We look back fondly while forgetting the bad. The same will be true of the present in years to come. At some point, people will look at Xmas 2000-2010 and say the same.
Sorry ClintonNearlWalker about what happened to your friend's brother; that must have been horrible to witness! I did try to sled on a drive-through bank ramp once & fortunately the tellers told me to leave.
All those boys sledding on the street! The streets in my neighborhood were too busy; we generally used snowhills at plowed parking lots for sledding. I wonder if the girl at :29 wanted to run her brother's American Flyer train; I recall giving my little sister lessons on running my HO train. The snowblower at the end; how nice it would have been to have one if you shoveled snow in the upper Midwest during the winter of 1975 & had to clear a driveway in front of a 2 car garage!
@Petemonster62 Your comment about sledding brought back a sad memory for me. We used to sled all the time on the hill right in front of our house, still do sometimes. One of my school mates younger brother was sledding on a steep dirt road up to a graveyard in about 1972, a car tried to get a big run up that hill, and you can guess what happened. That was one of my first experiences with death :( I associate that with sledding to this day.
after reading some of these comments I never realized how many wackjobs owned computers. or did they just go to their local public libraries ? free computers there you know. they just also can't download kiddie porn.
Give the fighting a rest! If you try hard enough, you can find fault with EVERYthing. If you try hard enough, you can find the GOOD in things. TRY to accept this video offering in the vein in which it was intended -- providing fond memories of celebrating Christmas as kids. The 50's represent the last decade that God was 'allowed' in schools & the public square. The 60's signaled the beginning of the end. The end of God & morality. The beginning of enlightenment (God is dead) & hedonism.
The problem is that it wasn't. There were a lot of minorities around -- you just never heard about them/saw them. And you could even have problems if you were the wrong "kind" of white. The Irish and Italians had a hell of a time of it, and even then there were still a lot of places that refused to serve Jews. America was just as much of a toilet then, in its own way; the difference was that nobody talked about it.
In other words, you don't care about other people's happiness. You are invoking the celebration of the birth of Jesus for no other reason than to affirm your own righteousness.
In other words, you don't care about other people's happiness. You are invoking the celebration of the birth of Jesus for no other reason than to affirm your own righteousness.
Thank you for the Time Machine back to my childhood. I was 4 and I remember my easy bake oven, race car set and Lionel Train set on Xmas morning. Its not such much the toys but it was a time when both my parents were alive and life was so simple.
Ah, scenes of the beautiful Old Republic. Wonderful times that we are taught, even coerced, to reject because minorities, gays, lesbians, and other social outsiders aren't represented. America was America back then by choice. Those scenes cannot be reproduced today by simply reproducing the image in life. Those scenes represent a time, mindset, and social fabric that is mocked and hated by today's media and power elites.
@InfiniteMushroom They were only wonderful if you were white and middle-class to rich. Everybody else got shat on. America back then had as many problems as it does now -- they were just different.
@SpamWarrior3000 The majority of the Old Republic WAS white and mostly middle and working class. We thrived under the protection of the New Deal. Whites had struggled for labor rights, fought two world wars, and were enjoying their hard-won fruits.
White America was then subdued, polluted, and its inheritance robbed by the biggest Fifth Column in history. Did you get what you want? Is this what America was meant to be? I'd rather have the Old Republic that the toilet we have now
Back when Negros knew their place, (in the back of the bus,) Queers stayed in the closet, or got beat-up or arrested, the Indians were still the "bad guys", the KKK weren't, and Commie Witch Hunts were all the rage, in Washington, DC.
And if you watched TV or movies back then, those pesky "ethnics", were only seen as comical stereotypes.
Darn those "media and power elites", for taking all the fun out of racism and bigotry.
@skeilak HA.........ha...... clap...........clap. Obama is half white and Wall Street's houseboy. Real neighborliness involves sociological dynamics that you either don't understand or refuse to see. Neighborhoods are organic things that cannot be ordered into existence by government decree or NGO meddling.
Deed Restricted HOA's are a mockery of the old White Neighborhood. Whites endure self-imposed tyranny to make it less attractive to minorities. It wasn't necessary back in the 50's
It's appalling the the oppression Whites are forced to endure, these days.
How can you call it "freedom", when it's considered "bad taste" to hate someone's guts, simply because of the color of their skin, or their religion, or who they have sex with? It's even illegal for government, and private businesses, to discriminate against people for the same reasons!
Is that the "Liberty" our Founding Fathers had in mind?
@skeilak oh boy i was enjoying being on here reflecting on my 66 years on the planet then i come across you guys. what a load of elephants poo you come out with. can't you just enjoy the moment? i've never been to the usa and don't think i'm missing anything if you lot are anything to go by. chill, your a long time dead, as we say in scotland. x
Whoever donated their family Christmas pictures to this video...a very big Thank You. Seems like we had to pose with our toys for the camera. Unfortunately my family didn't have a camera for indoor shots. We have one photo of all of the grandchildren with my grandmother (who looked like and acted like Aunt Bee). She had a old farmhouse in New Hampshire that was right out of Clement Moore's poem. If you spent one Christmas Eve, you came away being a believer in Santa Claus.
Were those cops "walking the beat?" I remember when police officers used to walk the streets downtown and they always had a smile and a kind word to say..I miss the store front windows in their chrismas displays...woolsworths..etc..thanks for the fun post!
I'm 16 years old, so i was born in the 90s and honestly? I really wish I could have lived in the 50s, I know everything was different back then and maybe not everything was good, but I mean today ... still not everything is good. Well you get the point. I just love everything about the 50s. Thank you for this video helping me imagine how times were back then!
OMG ! I'm only 42 but I love this. I recall in the 70's my house being filled with relatives. Both sets of my Grandparents, Aunts & Uncles, cousins ect. I loved it so much. Now allmost all of them have passed on. I sure miss them. But Thank the good Lord I still have my parents here. Mom is 69 and Dad is 67. My brother and sister had a wonderful childhood. I just miss all the other family memebers that are gone. Wish I could get a time machine for Christmas !!
@bigcarguy69 yeah, you're lucky....the 1970s were the last vestage of traditional American Christmas. I was born in 1954. When I was a kid the center of every town was loaded with colored lights and a big bell hanging in the intersection....every store had Christmas displays in the window and inside would be Christmas songs playing. A few years ago when I was a retail store manager my boss actually insisted that Mel Torme's "Christmas Song" was called "the holiday song"......
You should've shown him the record and asked him to point out the title, and who it was written by. I'm quite sure Mel knew what he wanted to call it.
@MISisback he knew exactly what the title was....I worked in a music shop and my boss wasn't Christian.....he was trying to belittle Christmas by insisting the "The Christmas Song".....was called the holiday song. Even though it's copyrighted under that title, all the sheet music is under that title & the CDs are under that title.
So, in other words, he just took great joy in being a dick, belittling other peoples' traditions just because they didn't fit his own agenda? What the hell has happened to people? *shakes head*
@MISisback you said it perfectly. He was everything a person should not be. He was terrible with the customers, he was a moron who only got the job because someone in his family owned the place. He was paid 3 time what he was worth. He would accuse innocent employees of stealing and would try to screw you every chance he got. He is due for some very bad Karma
Absolutely loved it esp. the glass wax stencils on the mirror (I think they were). Great post - brought back many memories! Scenes from now will NOT be nostalgic - the pace is too damn fast. Also you can't say Christmas and there is always some jerk complaining about public Nativity displays as well as decorations themselves! Our era was wonderful!
@CD122344 OH YEAH.....i forgot about that "glass wax" stencils. What was the actual purpose of glass wax?.......i'll have to look that up. Why did people want to wax their windows???
@CD122344 OH YEAH.....i forgot about that "glass wax" stencils. What was the actual purpose of glass wax?.......i'll have to look that up. Why did people want to wax their windows???
Its true, instead of being happy watching a film like this , i feel hurt and sadness, that things have changed so much, The world our parents lived in ,doesnt work anymore .And we were a part of it , and expected a new house , job and a car . Looks like its China' s turn to be the Top country in the world. I cant believe we are letting it happen.
@1952kid@1952kid Scenes from today will be nostalgic 50 yrs. from now, for those our age now. And so on it goes... World power has continually shifted eastward...after China it will be....??
A time when christmas did mean something, but today people wish you a merry christmas and for the rest of the year nothing, just like christmas today, it means nothing. They could ban christmas and it wouldnt bother me a jot, after all they dont mean it.
How absolutely marvelous-have never heard this reording [ so well done!] Christmas hasn't changed that much [the fashion & interiors yes] but spending time with family and friends and sharing gifts is still the same- Your choice of images makes this a perfect Holiday treat!
@mrmagicroundcircle You don't own anything but a bad attitude. From the looks of your profile, you're nothing more than a troll leaving negative comment of Christmas videos. Grow up.
@mrmagicroundcircle And I run a large company. I'd like to buy up your company, liquidate all your assets and lay you off by Christmas 2011. You can then go to the Salvation Army soup kitchen for your Christmas dinner and, if I see you on the street, by all means hit me up for a buck or two. I like a good laugh at Christmas ! I'd laugh at you and proceed to donate a few Benjamins to your former staff and give you a big 'Ho, Ho, Ho'.
Well, our kids don't know what they're getting, nor do our grandkids ... we still have that magical element. Tradition! The tree, next morning the gifts and a big breakfast, if there's snow we sled etc. ... fire in the fireplace ... oh we have so much fun!
I got to enjoy Christmas in the sixties! So different from today . The kids today live in world that isn' t nearly as fun. They already know what they are getting for Xmas and then they just sit around all day in their own little world. The magical element of the day has been lost. And thats sad.
@Sunsetmills I know. It's a shame. Christmas was always the best time of year in the 50s and 60s. Our presents were actually a surprise. We were not allowed to know what we were getting until Christmas Day. The next morning we would wake up with the fire running and we had loads of presents under the tree! And after we opened all our presents we would always go out sledging if we had snow on that day, skiing, making snowmen and then come back in the afternoon and watch Rudolph.
@Sunsetmills These days children aren't that interested in going out in the snow anymore because they're all stuck to the internet and video games. We always made the most of the holidays when we were young. It's so strange how the world has changed. No matter what, even to this day, I ALWAYS go out and play in the snow and I'm 57!
Great capture of Christmas in the fifties! There's even a photo of those stencils made with some kind of polish on the mirror ... ours were on the window. What a wonderful time to be a kid ! Thanks for posting
Looks like a wonderful time to have been alive, if only I had been there. I am constantly tell people I was born in the wrong decade, wrong generation lol.
Ahhh ... the 50's .... and CHRSTmas ... my two favorite things together!!!! Odd how I can be nostalgic for a time I wasn't part of. Born 60 years too late!!! Love it!
Snowball fights, hot cocoa, window shopping, outdoor skating and sitting around an open log fire. Dad would set up the Christmas tree and we kids would try to untangle the wad of a gazillion lights. The ritual of midnight Mass on christmas eve The times were wonderful. you could leave your door unlocked at night. It isn't just the memories of christmas. It was christmas in a wonderful time.
That is what Christmas is all about. Families spending time together and not in front of the TV or the computer. If only we could go back .................
@thebradybunchlover we lost this country as far back as the 1970's. I feel sorry for young people who never got to experience christmas "in the old days".......Christmas specials on TV, Christmas decorations in the center of town (many towns have banned them)...........in fact the word "Christmas" has become politically incorrect to even say. The USA has become a decayed, roted, moral trash heap. I am really glad I am old enough to be dead w/in 20 years, I just do not want to see the "end"
@inkey2 I think it depends on what part of the country you're in.. Growing up in the midwest we still had very traditional Christmas' until the mid 80's. I'm sure the bigger cities and more populated areas lost it way sooner. I am also pretty sure that the word Christmas will no longer exist soon because the US government will be afraid to offend someone who doesn't believe in Christ..
Could see myself and sister in some photos good stuff
buffspringfield 1 month ago
I was born in the 60's, although my parents sure lived like it was 1955 until the late 70's! LOL! We had old fashioned TV's, tables, clothes, sinks, etc. I can relate to these pictures and times, even if I was about 15 years too late (as a small child). However, let's not forget the nostalgia factor. We always love the past. We look back fondly while forgetting the bad. The same will be true of the present in years to come. At some point, people will look at Xmas 2000-2010 and say the same.
doctoru2 2 months ago
Sorry ClintonNearlWalker about what happened to your friend's brother; that must have been horrible to witness! I did try to sled on a drive-through bank ramp once & fortunately the tellers told me to leave.
Petemonster62 2 months ago
All those boys sledding on the street! The streets in my neighborhood were too busy; we generally used snowhills at plowed parking lots for sledding. I wonder if the girl at :29 wanted to run her brother's American Flyer train; I recall giving my little sister lessons on running my HO train. The snowblower at the end; how nice it would have been to have one if you shoveled snow in the upper Midwest during the winter of 1975 & had to clear a driveway in front of a 2 car garage!
Petemonster62 2 months ago
@Petemonster62 Your comment about sledding brought back a sad memory for me. We used to sled all the time on the hill right in front of our house, still do sometimes. One of my school mates younger brother was sledding on a steep dirt road up to a graveyard in about 1972, a car tried to get a big run up that hill, and you can guess what happened. That was one of my first experiences with death :( I associate that with sledding to this day.
clintonearlwalker 2 months ago
after reading some of these comments I never realized how many wackjobs owned computers. or did they just go to their local public libraries ? free computers there you know. they just also can't download kiddie porn.
MrRETEROROB 2 months ago
loves , ya baby boomers had the good stuff from interainment, prices, cars, more compassionate, etc
bonjovigirl2011 2 months ago
Give the fighting a rest! If you try hard enough, you can find fault with EVERYthing. If you try hard enough, you can find the GOOD in things. TRY to accept this video offering in the vein in which it was intended -- providing fond memories of celebrating Christmas as kids. The 50's represent the last decade that God was 'allowed' in schools & the public square. The 60's signaled the beginning of the end. The end of God & morality. The beginning of enlightenment (God is dead) & hedonism.
Hypsan 2 months ago
The problem is that it wasn't. There were a lot of minorities around -- you just never heard about them/saw them. And you could even have problems if you were the wrong "kind" of white. The Irish and Italians had a hell of a time of it, and even then there were still a lot of places that refused to serve Jews. America was just as much of a toilet then, in its own way; the difference was that nobody talked about it.
SpamWarrior3000 2 months ago
These photos really bring back memories` Christmas in the 50,s had a
special charm and spirit that seems to be less felt these days. MeryChristmas.
globehunter2 2 months ago
MERRY CHRISTMAS Everybody !
& for you POLITICALLY CORRECT Jackasses
out there MERRY CHRISTMAS ! That´s
right I didn´t wish you a happy holliday.
INDYOSKARS 2 months ago
@INDYOSKARS
In other words, you don't care about other people's happiness. You are invoking the celebration of the birth of Jesus for no other reason than to affirm your own righteousness.
4a8p9x 2 months ago
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@INDYOSKARS
In other words, you don't care about other people's happiness. You are invoking the celebration of the birth of Jesus for no other reason than to affirm your own righteousness.
4a8p9x
@4a8p9x
"HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN"
John Lennon.
INDYOSKARS 2 months ago
Thank you for the Time Machine back to my childhood. I was 4 and I remember my easy bake oven, race car set and Lionel Train set on Xmas morning. Its not such much the toys but it was a time when both my parents were alive and life was so simple.
mgc2125 2 months ago 2
Wish I lived during these times. :C
happybassist 2 months ago
THE good old days.
My grandmother told me stories of the Christmas Season back in 1950's, and it was very classic and very much like these photos... Just a fine time.
LDis1 2 months ago
no video games, no ipods, ipads, no large hd 3d tv
families got together to be with each other not a machine
CanadaguyRudey1 2 months ago 2
Ah, scenes of the beautiful Old Republic. Wonderful times that we are taught, even coerced, to reject because minorities, gays, lesbians, and other social outsiders aren't represented. America was America back then by choice. Those scenes cannot be reproduced today by simply reproducing the image in life. Those scenes represent a time, mindset, and social fabric that is mocked and hated by today's media and power elites.
Baby, it's not America outside...
InfiniteMushroom 3 months ago
@InfiniteMushroom They were only wonderful if you were white and middle-class to rich. Everybody else got shat on. America back then had as many problems as it does now -- they were just different.
SpamWarrior3000 2 months ago
@SpamWarrior3000 The majority of the Old Republic WAS white and mostly middle and working class. We thrived under the protection of the New Deal. Whites had struggled for labor rights, fought two world wars, and were enjoying their hard-won fruits.
White America was then subdued, polluted, and its inheritance robbed by the biggest Fifth Column in history. Did you get what you want? Is this what America was meant to be? I'd rather have the Old Republic that the toilet we have now
InfiniteMushroom 2 months ago
@InfiniteMushroom
Ah yes, "the good old days".
Back when Negros knew their place, (in the back of the bus,) Queers stayed in the closet, or got beat-up or arrested, the Indians were still the "bad guys", the KKK weren't, and Commie Witch Hunts were all the rage, in Washington, DC.
And if you watched TV or movies back then, those pesky "ethnics", were only seen as comical stereotypes.
Darn those "media and power elites", for taking all the fun out of racism and bigotry.
skeilak 2 months ago
@skeilak Yep, White America was beautiful while it lasted. White Bread America is now covered in mold and fit only to be thrown in the trash.
InfiniteMushroom 2 months ago
@InfiniteMushroom
I hear ya, ol' buddy! And you're 100% right!
Especially since one of them colored got to be President.
In fact, you might as well hop right in that old trash can, and I'll even snap the lid on for you.
Neighbor helping neighbor. That's what America used to be about!
(Something them Commie-Liberals will never figure out.)
skeilak 2 months ago
@skeilak HA.........ha...... clap...........clap. Obama is half white and Wall Street's houseboy. Real neighborliness involves sociological dynamics that you either don't understand or refuse to see. Neighborhoods are organic things that cannot be ordered into existence by government decree or NGO meddling.
Deed Restricted HOA's are a mockery of the old White Neighborhood. Whites endure self-imposed tyranny to make it less attractive to minorities. It wasn't necessary back in the 50's
InfiniteMushroom 2 months ago
@InfiniteMushroom
You're preachin' to the choir, pal.
It's appalling the the oppression Whites are forced to endure, these days.
How can you call it "freedom", when it's considered "bad taste" to hate someone's guts, simply because of the color of their skin, or their religion, or who they have sex with? It's even illegal for government, and private businesses, to discriminate against people for the same reasons!
Is that the "Liberty" our Founding Fathers had in mind?
skeilak 2 months ago
@skeilak oh boy i was enjoying being on here reflecting on my 66 years on the planet then i come across you guys. what a load of elephants poo you come out with. can't you just enjoy the moment? i've never been to the usa and don't think i'm missing anything if you lot are anything to go by. chill, your a long time dead, as we say in scotland. x
stewmar1946 2 months ago
@stewmar1946
I wonder if you sent a similar message to racist fool I was belittling, with (I thought, rather obvious,) sarcasm?
skeilak 2 months ago
loved watching this thank you for putting this up;)
noircat1874 3 months ago
Thank you for sharing this.... it brought back fond memories of the first decade of my life. Those were the days......
sbeesmarr 3 months ago
Whoever donated their family Christmas pictures to this video...a very big Thank You. Seems like we had to pose with our toys for the camera. Unfortunately my family didn't have a camera for indoor shots. We have one photo of all of the grandchildren with my grandmother (who looked like and acted like Aunt Bee). She had a old farmhouse in New Hampshire that was right out of Clement Moore's poem. If you spent one Christmas Eve, you came away being a believer in Santa Claus.
MrFrontrowkid 3 months ago
Its weird that I see myself in this clip. It was the 50s and you must had gotton them off my old flickr account.
hansk1955 3 months ago
Were those cops "walking the beat?" I remember when police officers used to walk the streets downtown and they always had a smile and a kind word to say..I miss the store front windows in their chrismas displays...woolsworths..etc..thanks for the fun post!
skylilly1 3 months ago
I'm 16 years old, so i was born in the 90s and honestly? I really wish I could have lived in the 50s, I know everything was different back then and maybe not everything was good, but I mean today ... still not everything is good. Well you get the point. I just love everything about the 50s. Thank you for this video helping me imagine how times were back then!
njudndudi 3 months ago
If only we could return to that wonderful time! Loved it!
reitzpaulette 3 months ago 2
What a wonderful world that was, too bad those days are gone. Thanks for the viedo.
ruxtondrive 3 months ago
What fun! thankyou for a trip down memory lane!
annie37618 3 months ago
OMG ! I'm only 42 but I love this. I recall in the 70's my house being filled with relatives. Both sets of my Grandparents, Aunts & Uncles, cousins ect. I loved it so much. Now allmost all of them have passed on. I sure miss them. But Thank the good Lord I still have my parents here. Mom is 69 and Dad is 67. My brother and sister had a wonderful childhood. I just miss all the other family memebers that are gone. Wish I could get a time machine for Christmas !!
bigcarguy69 4 months ago
@bigcarguy69 I'm with ya on that time machine thing! :)
lander4545 4 months ago
@bigcarguy69 yeah, you're lucky....the 1970s were the last vestage of traditional American Christmas. I was born in 1954. When I was a kid the center of every town was loaded with colored lights and a big bell hanging in the intersection....every store had Christmas displays in the window and inside would be Christmas songs playing. A few years ago when I was a retail store manager my boss actually insisted that Mel Torme's "Christmas Song" was called "the holiday song"......
inkey2 3 months ago
@inkey2
You should've shown him the record and asked him to point out the title, and who it was written by. I'm quite sure Mel knew what he wanted to call it.
MISisback 2 months ago
@MISisback he knew exactly what the title was....I worked in a music shop and my boss wasn't Christian.....he was trying to belittle Christmas by insisting the "The Christmas Song".....was called the holiday song. Even though it's copyrighted under that title, all the sheet music is under that title & the CDs are under that title.
inkey2 2 months ago
@inkey2
So, in other words, he just took great joy in being a dick, belittling other peoples' traditions just because they didn't fit his own agenda? What the hell has happened to people? *shakes head*
MISisback 2 months ago 2
@MISisback you said it perfectly. He was everything a person should not be. He was terrible with the customers, he was a moron who only got the job because someone in his family owned the place. He was paid 3 time what he was worth. He would accuse innocent employees of stealing and would try to screw you every chance he got. He is due for some very bad Karma
inkey2 2 months ago
that was fun. would've liked to have seen more vintage toys though.
MrRETEROROB 4 months ago
@MrRETEROROB Funny you should mention that.. The next one I'm doing on vintage toys..
jukeboxjunkie13 4 months ago
What a voice Sammy had, amazing.
funygirl38 4 months ago
if there was a way to time travel this would be one of times i would place myself at
grizzleybearz282004 4 months ago
Alright I give up - where are the black people?
NorceCodine 4 months ago
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///---Alright I give up - where are the black people?---\\\
COULD IT BE THAT THEY WERE HOME WITH
THEIR OWN FAMILIES ?
INDYOSKARS 2 months ago
I wanted to hear the rest of the song
whatever3210 7 months ago
Absolutely loved it esp. the glass wax stencils on the mirror (I think they were). Great post - brought back many memories! Scenes from now will NOT be nostalgic - the pace is too damn fast. Also you can't say Christmas and there is always some jerk complaining about public Nativity displays as well as decorations themselves! Our era was wonderful!
CD122344 8 months ago
@CD122344 OH YEAH.....i forgot about that "glass wax" stencils. What was the actual purpose of glass wax?.......i'll have to look that up. Why did people want to wax their windows???
inkey2 3 months ago
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@CD122344 OH YEAH.....i forgot about that "glass wax" stencils. What was the actual purpose of glass wax?.......i'll have to look that up. Why did people want to wax their windows???
inkey2
@inkey2
For "FROST-ROSES" effect ?
(I live in Iceland)
INDYOSKARS 2 months ago
I was born in the 40s so I remember all the good times when Christmas was really wonderful and people had family values,
thank you
Tom R
crusher1944 10 months ago
@crusher1944
You are so right!
007CONROY 6 months ago
Most of these scenes are familiar to me & I was a kid in the 1960s/early 1970s.
Petemonster62 11 months ago
Its true, instead of being happy watching a film like this , i feel hurt and sadness, that things have changed so much, The world our parents lived in ,doesnt work anymore .And we were a part of it , and expected a new house , job and a car . Looks like its China' s turn to be the Top country in the world. I cant believe we are letting it happen.
1952kid 1 year ago 2
@1952kid Scenes from today will be nostalgic 50 yrs. from now, for those who'll be our age now. And so on it goes...
gabsylv 10 months ago
@1952kid @1952kid Scenes from today will be nostalgic 50 yrs. from now, for those our age now. And so on it goes... World power has continually shifted eastward...after China it will be....??
gabsylv 10 months ago
Great pictures. Thanks
Trolleymoose 1 year ago
yeah and i hope all your employees pull a johnny paycheck on you take this job and shove it up pipe hole you communist
rayalderson67 1 year ago
Does anybody have a time machine? I like to spend Christmas in the 1950's, hahaha! xxxxx Merry Christmas xxxxx
jeff1969z 1 year ago
A time when christmas did mean something, but today people wish you a merry christmas and for the rest of the year nothing, just like christmas today, it means nothing. They could ban christmas and it wouldnt bother me a jot, after all they dont mean it.
Humbug!!!
bengusandlex 1 year ago
Very nice imagery...especially so many shots of the model trains and track around the tree or on the livingroom floor. I remember it well.
fiftiesflashback1953 1 year ago
Thank you I wish family's could be happy at Christmas again. There is just too many distractions now it's just all a big joke.
NODARRYL 1 year ago
This is delightful! I enjoyed it immensely. THANKS for posting it! Cheers.
yvonca 1 year ago 6
@yvonca - thank you so much
jukeboxjunkie13 1 year ago
How absolutely marvelous-have never heard this reording [ so well done!] Christmas hasn't changed that much [the fashion & interiors yes] but spending time with family and friends and sharing gifts is still the same- Your choice of images makes this a perfect Holiday treat!
thefabulousmark 1 year ago
I'm ready to go back to when I was a kid in the 50s. It wasn't all perfect but, it was better than now.
MrDanlj 1 year ago
@MrDanlj warm up the time machine!
Merry Christmas MrDanlj!
jack2breeze 1 year ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
i run a small company .and if i had my way i would abolish christmas for good and make the employees work whith no holidays at all
mrmagicroundcircle 1 year ago
@mrmagicroundcircle You don't own anything but a bad attitude. From the looks of your profile, you're nothing more than a troll leaving negative comment of Christmas videos. Grow up.
jukeboxjunkie13 1 year ago 16
@jukeboxjunkie13 Didnt say i own anything just that i run a small company apology would be appreciatwd
mrmagicroundcircle 4 months ago
@mrmagicroundcircle Are you serious? After your comments, you're not welcome here and you sure won't get any apology.
jukeboxjunkie13 4 months ago
@mrmagicroundcircle YOUR RIGHT CHRISTMAS IS A JOKE. GET RID OF IT IT HAS NO PLACE HERE. JUST ANOTHER SCAM
crusher1944 1 year ago
@mrmagicroundcircle hahaha bah humbug!
samuelshepard 1 year ago
@mrmagicroundcircle And I run a large company. I'd like to buy up your company, liquidate all your assets and lay you off by Christmas 2011. You can then go to the Salvation Army soup kitchen for your Christmas dinner and, if I see you on the street, by all means hit me up for a buck or two. I like a good laugh at Christmas ! I'd laugh at you and proceed to donate a few Benjamins to your former staff and give you a big 'Ho, Ho, Ho'.
See ya next Christmas hum bug !!
ironman5454 1 year ago
@mrmagicroundcircle BANG
crusher1944 10 months ago
@crusher1944 strange time of year to be watching christmas vids
mrmagicroundcircle 10 months ago
@mrmagicroundcircle then don't watch it you wanker !
MrRETEROROB 4 months ago
@MrRETEROROB BAH HUMBUG
mrmagicroundcircle 4 months ago
I run a small company and if i had my way i would abolish christmas for good
and make the employees work with no holidays at all.
mrmagicroundcircle
@mrmagicroundcircle
Even Scrooges had a change of heart,
& he was a real sick miser-bastard, so
there is still some change for you.
INDYOSKARS 2 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
I would go back to that time in a flash.
MrDanlj 1 year ago
The dad with the pipe on 0:58 classic. I can just feel the difference, do we really see all we have lost in the world of today?
notbuster126 1 year ago 2
The carpet at 1:22 brings back a lot of memories for me. It looks like the carpet my grandma had in her house. I really miss her.
clewi1091 1 year ago
Well, our kids don't know what they're getting, nor do our grandkids ... we still have that magical element. Tradition! The tree, next morning the gifts and a big breakfast, if there's snow we sled etc. ... fire in the fireplace ... oh we have so much fun!
estraven2008 1 year ago
@estraven2008 how do u feel about adopting a 41 yr old? ha! ha! Merry Christmas!
jack2breeze 1 year ago
@jack2breeze Hah! Merry Christmas backatcha.
estraven2008 1 year ago
I got to enjoy Christmas in the sixties! So different from today . The kids today live in world that isn' t nearly as fun. They already know what they are getting for Xmas and then they just sit around all day in their own little world. The magical element of the day has been lost. And thats sad.
Sunsetmills 1 year ago
@Sunsetmills I know. It's a shame. Christmas was always the best time of year in the 50s and 60s. Our presents were actually a surprise. We were not allowed to know what we were getting until Christmas Day. The next morning we would wake up with the fire running and we had loads of presents under the tree! And after we opened all our presents we would always go out sledging if we had snow on that day, skiing, making snowmen and then come back in the afternoon and watch Rudolph.
boffinme80 1 year ago
@Sunsetmills These days children aren't that interested in going out in the snow anymore because they're all stuck to the internet and video games. We always made the most of the holidays when we were young. It's so strange how the world has changed. No matter what, even to this day, I ALWAYS go out and play in the snow and I'm 57!
boffinme80 1 year ago
Great capture of Christmas in the fifties! There's even a photo of those stencils made with some kind of polish on the mirror ... ours were on the window. What a wonderful time to be a kid ! Thanks for posting
4933juju 1 year ago
Looks like a wonderful time to have been alive, if only I had been there. I am constantly tell people I was born in the wrong decade, wrong generation lol.
LauraLynn2008 1 year ago
Ahhh ... the 50's .... and CHRSTmas ... my two favorite things together!!!! Odd how I can be nostalgic for a time I wasn't part of. Born 60 years too late!!! Love it!
lonewulf44 1 year ago
Reminds me of Christmas, St. Johnsbury, VT 1962.
Snowball fights, hot cocoa, window shopping, outdoor skating and sitting around an open log fire. Dad would set up the Christmas tree and we kids would try to untangle the wad of a gazillion lights. The ritual of midnight Mass on christmas eve The times were wonderful. you could leave your door unlocked at night. It isn't just the memories of christmas. It was christmas in a wonderful time.
MrGchiasson 1 year ago
That is what Christmas is all about. Families spending time together and not in front of the TV or the computer. If only we could go back .................
twinklez1985 1 year ago 13
What fun! Christmas from a simpler time.
thefabulousmark 1 year ago 2
great
CTMarineMom 2 years ago
i took Doc's Deloreran back to the 50's the other day... pretty cool!!!
usjets08 2 years ago
Great job reminds me of growing up in the 50s which I miss.
artiefun 2 years ago
Thanks for posting. This reminds me of Christmas as a kid.....a wonderful time to be a kid...
joetmack 2 years ago
It would be much better if you played some better Christmas music with the photos. This music was horrible.
IwshIcldstrtover 2 years ago
this is so cute!
CrazyBoutThe50s 2 years ago
These look so much like our old family photos that it's eerie! Thanks for the post of these blasts from the past!
renata777777 2 years ago
Its actually painful to look at this....how things have changed in this country
inkey2 2 years ago 23
@inkey2 I agree so MUCH! D`:
thebradybunchlover 1 year ago
@thebradybunchlover we lost this country as far back as the 1970's. I feel sorry for young people who never got to experience christmas "in the old days".......Christmas specials on TV, Christmas decorations in the center of town (many towns have banned them)...........in fact the word "Christmas" has become politically incorrect to even say. The USA has become a decayed, roted, moral trash heap. I am really glad I am old enough to be dead w/in 20 years, I just do not want to see the "end"
inkey2 1 year ago 4
@inkey2 COMPLETELY Agree! :`(
thebradybunchlover 1 year ago
@thebradybunchlover YOUR RIGHT IT OFFENS ME and this goverment should outlaw it
crusher1944 1 year ago
@inkey2 I think it depends on what part of the country you're in.. Growing up in the midwest we still had very traditional Christmas' until the mid 80's. I'm sure the bigger cities and more populated areas lost it way sooner. I am also pretty sure that the word Christmas will no longer exist soon because the US government will be afraid to offend someone who doesn't believe in Christ..
jukeboxjunkie13 1 year ago
@jukeboxjunkie13
I'm not afraid to offend somebody who doesn't believe in Christ. After all, they have no problem with offending ME, so what would be the diff?
MISisback 2 months ago
@inkey2
It's the same here in the U.K.
I really do miss the vintage Christmas tv shows, but sadly ours were wiped by tv companies.
You can still see some of your vintage Christmas tv shows on DVD if you go to Amazon.com
The 60s was our golden era!
raymondlang 1 year ago
Wonderful ! Memory Lane is my favotire street.
sueezee 2 years ago 2
cool
vtecivicsib18 2 years ago