Christmas 1956 at Mike and Harriette Halepis House

This was 16mm film shot on Christmas day in 1956 at the home of Mike and Harriette Halepis in Garfield Heights Ohio.

[@maureenwilson6031]

Happy faces, happy people, simple times....great times...great childhood memories!

[@greyghostscsa394]

America was so much better back then. Today this country is a disgrace.

[@caroltenge5147]

reflections from a country thats finished.

[@davidstaudohar6733]

How about Dean Martin singing along great sound track 👍👍‼️

[@janettamcgee8124]

I was born a year later. This reminded me of Christmas at my grandmother's house. Everyone was dressed-up. Great memories. Thanks for posting.

[@bellalogan414]

I still say life was better back then.

[@mmwaashumslowww7167]

Absolutely! I have no doubt about that, who thinks that life is good now?. A world full of lies, corruption and greed that's off the scale and the true meaning of Christmas has been lost.

[@greyghostscsa394]

I’d give anything to be able to go back and live in the 1950’s forever. I can’t stand living in 2022. It’s a living nightmare.

[@bellalogan414]

@@greyghostscsa394 I agree

[@praline4157]

I agree!

[@mzwere1]

My parents who were teens in late 50s certainly loved it the just as I did being their age in 80s, two great time periods

[@IzwoldChannel]

Made me tear up again ... such beautiful times for most of us that is. I notice the children are playing games instead of playing on computer games,, how lovely. Everyone looks so happy and I see the men are all dressed in nice white shirts in those days, so refreshing. Excellent video and so many thanks for sharing ( I was 13 in 1956) Shared to my FB.😁

[@trixier6505]

I was 8 that year. Now I am 74. Those were golden days.

[@smokeynedith3555]

Back then people dressed up when they attended an event at a friend's or family member's house.

[@skylilly1]

This popped up in my recs. I'm happy to find it. It didn't matter how small your house was back then when it was holiday time we'd pack them in and have the greatest time. Everyone was together and sharing the holiday. Good times. You have a lovely family. :)Thanks for sharing!

[@vickieb72akavickie_tedslady]

Love home videos like this. Thanks for sharing 😍

[@jipfluffy2143]

How wonderful to have this living time capsule of your family !

[@davenone7312]

I was 3 months old on this Xmas. It was a good time to grow up. We have had a good life thanx to the greatest generation!

[@markstevens6682]

What a treasure this footage must be to the surviving members of this family… How awesome to be able to see your Grandpa & Grandma, your Mom & Dad having such a great time….

[@clarysl18]

I think the same!!👍👍

[@SamhainBe]

Thank you Mike and Harriette for inviting us into your home...we had a great time...Merry Christmas!

[@akeffo]

Schultz tall boy beers. Love it!

[@MR_MRM_]

A family with a 16mm camera was rare. They were either pretty well off or seriously into photography and films. The footage looks so much better than the more common (and lower resolution) 8mm film.

[@inkey2]

did they have Kodachrome back then.......the film is definitely not Kodachrome....too faded

[@miketype1each]

That's a good Christmas day if ever I saw one!

[@peggycrowley9534]

Love it! Could have been my family. Love when so much family was around. Now people move away. Everyone dressed up. Many times the women wore Christmas corsages they got at the 5 & 10.

[@evelintranoudi8807]

yes beautiful times. I too was 3 months old that year. it also seems this was a Greek family . what beautiful times. people then new what life was all about.

[@ilanamillion8942]

I was just 1 month old. Love the video!

[@mddemas]

Yes Greek

[@davidstaudohar6733]

How about the kids playing Ring around the Rosie pocket full of Posey ashes ashes we turn in the dust and We All Fall Down, I remember playing this game 🤣🤣🤣‼️

[@dianeellis3925]

Boy. Did that bring back memories😺. Thanks for showing this. And , yes people, it really was like that❤️💚

[@ablindgibsongirl]

Thank you so much for sharing this, my aunt and uncle, who just finished restoring my grandfathers home, hope to host a real Christmas like this one day. My cousins, and whoever else can come, will give it our best effort. As a family, we dressed up right up until the early 90s, and then it all just kind of stopped. When people die, traditions are lost, sometimes forever. Christmas just isn’t the same anymore.

[@williamschlenger1518]

Great clip.Brings back a lot of memories.

[@theteal123]

Great video, looks like fun times!

[@Petemonster62]

That little girl is destined to be Queen of the Hop! Looks like everyone had a good time!

[@fredericbontemps6569]

We could call it the golden age of the modern era. The mankind was recovering from WW2, building each day a better world for everyone. People were exactly like this, nice, simple, elegant: no roughness, sanity.

[@haroldsmith1213]

what,s lost is gone and whats gone is forever,so thakfully we have films like this to remind us how it was,how we were as a family,films like this are treasurs that should be seen by school kids so they would have an idea of traditions and family life during the Holidays in the middle of the 20 th century was like- to realize how far we.ve come is staggeringly sad-what first strikes me is how we all dressed nicely to celebrate and come together,it is special (christmas) and we dressed for it.looks like a nice family i just wonder what happened to them thru the decades.Thanks for this film its wonderful and i won't lie makes me a little tearful.👍🇺🇸🌻🌲

[@johngore7744]

Born in 1961. In Montreal. We’d re enact the nativity scene after Christmas Eve dinner the go to church and come home put cookies and milk out for Santa and apples and carrots for the reindeer. Good times.

[@mirellasanseviero472]

I am 90, I miss that time so much!

[@oldhippie81]

Great video. I was 15 years old Xmas 1956..

[@uslines]

I was 16.

[@nicksilverstein1193]

I'm only here because I typed Christmas 1956.....my husband was born the next day

[@tonyathomas9540]

I miss the old days…..enjoyed🥰

[@florencecavallaro4599]

love these videos//so very nice thank you for sharing/

[@sagarpuri7838]

I am watching this video on Christmas Eve of 2023

[@billy1673]

Those GIANT Tim cans of Schlitz beer! Awesome!

[@gilvogt4440]

I needed this, thanks......

[@kimyorkey3004]

Love these types of videos. Thanks for sharing!

[@jayarajjohnson2476]

One of the most Beautiful, Wonderful videos I have ever seen...

[@tinaokasi494]

Wish I had lived then, I might have been gone b4 the arrival of 5g generation Family then and now, *Stark Contrast *

[@wayhunglow1961]

wow thoses little kids are in the 70s and the older teens are in there 80s now

[@debbielenoir5472]

The little girl with the plaid jumper brings back memories.

[@aliciapilotta5913]

Everyone's so happy! It makes you just want to be there celebrating with them!! 🎄

[@winnienicklas2613]

Loved every minute of this!!! Thank you for sharing.

[@JulieAnne17-dn]

I KNEW they were Greek!!💃🏻🕺🏻 The dancing confirmed it. This was just like my family in 1956! Our children and grandchildren can only wonder!

[@davidstaudohar6733]

The art deco In the 1950's was full of human imagination and creativity, 👍👍👍‼️

[@williamschlenger1518]

I was 13yrs old & getting Lionel trains for Christmas.

[@yesterdayproductions1019]

When America was great, unlike now.

[@tom7546]

If only they knew what was coming

[@InFltSvc]

This is a beautiful thing! I really should upload my 8 MM films from Christmas back in 1964. These were the true American celebrations that are sort of gone now. Each year it gets worse with spend spend spend rather then why we celebrate!

[@raymondkunkel8499]

Reminds me of happier times I miss having family Christmases together my family is mostly gone now I live far away from the ones alive

[@fabricioteixeira5240]

Watching in 0,75x makes the frame rate looking better

[@markreed171]

Great memories of much better times!!

[@traceymanson8565]

Thanks for sharing Loved it back then! Everyone dressed up and actually visited eachother No phones or tvs blaring, we would sing carols and play games like sherades

[@dougboyko4008]

Love how everybody dressed in their best clothes such a sign of respect for each other

[@andrewbriggs6083]

All you had to do back then was live, beautiful.

[@johnbecker5213]

pretty fantastic!!!!

[@samanthajones9323]

Everyone was happier back then.

[@billyalonzo406]

I hope they keep they forever To be able share these years from now Mnay are just a memory

[@Awebreeze-zm3st]

That was a fun watch. Thanks for sharing.

[@hildamasi4665]

This was wonderful, great times. Where’s this family now?

[@acastrohowell]

I was 2 years old

[@michelewalburger9729]

Today is awful. Just watch this video and tell me the good old days are not truly gone. Sadly they are.

[@alanspagnolia9474]

"good old days" ? Cars made of crap, 78 RPM records that broke in pieces and NO AIR CONDITIONING!!! I'll take today ANYDAY!

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

@@alanspagnolia9474 Cars made of metal that lasted 5-20 years with little maintenance, records that were handled not by bumbling fools, plenty of air conditioning if you left your mountain house or southern drawn farm, and last but never least, families having an absolutely blast..highfiving included.

[@alanspagnolia9474]

@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar HA!! No "highfiving" here, Sir!! I meant what I said, and your arguments against them, are, extremely weak, at best !!

[@joetomczyk7893]

When i was a kid the extended family would gather at my grandparents, starting Christmas eve. 30 people in the house. Went on until the day after Christmas.

[@nataliya2641]

Thank you.

[@williammcgowanhubler]

I would have been about 7 weeks old! Great video!

[@diannefaith7866]

I love this channel!!! Wish I had a wonderful family as this one… 💜

[@sergiobrunati7601]

I wish we could go back intime.😞

[@ginadyson4214]

Happy People!!! Great Memories!!!

[@Jacqueline-ts1wd]

Fabulous the year I was born

[@nataliya2641]

Fascinating video. Hello from Moscow.

[@Hooftimmer]

Thanks.

[@donaldwatson3176]

I was 1 year old. Much better times! Much better.

[@albertp-w4d]

Tunes by Dean Martin, sets the mood right away. Very nice

[@likethemorning]

Merry Christmas 2022

[@jcc2c22]

The good old days. Before blondes were everywhere.

[@alanspagnolia9474]

Congrats, "jcc" STUPIDEST COMMENT OF THAT DAY !!

[@mzwere1]

I love brunettes, blondes and redheads but the there are some lovely dark haired ladies in this video for sure. Those classic styles are so flattering for the ladies. Theses fellows were truly lucky guys. 🙂 It is great to see everyone so properly dressed as well. 🙂

[@lgfla8632]

You can almost smell the Old Spice and mothballs

[@Cincystone]

Watching someone else’s memories is like second hand nostalgia

[@bryanspindle4455]

I was one month old at Christmas 1956.

[@reedfamily9626]

I'm pretty sure I saw a high 5.

[@cbhamilton1271]

I was born 13 days earlier. 😃 The best of times.

[@timdailey2690]

Schlitz on the table

[@rayjames6096]

Magnum sized beers.👍

[@altfactor]

Either they had a large family, or they invited some of their neighbors over to open Christmas presents with them.

[@mddemas]

It was mostly family, but some friends too.

[@Besorah1729]

Lovely 🥰

[@mikehudson8884]

Good 'ole Dean Marin track.......

[@hattiem.7966]

The Harriet name is in my family way back.Harriette is the French spelling.

[@randymillhouse791]

I have this weird hypothesis that all "time" happened at once during the Big Bang. And if time were something that simply advances to the present moment and the past just disappeared, then these old films would not be possible to exist. If the past just vanished, how could it be possible to record it? I posit that time travel to the past is possible based on this feeling I have.

[@raymondcarpenter3905]

With flood lights (Hot)

[@andilem2068]

What s happen to mike and harriet?

[@jackienelson4973]

Are they iranian

[@kostasveronis5882]

Nope, Greeks

[@albertp-w4d]

I bet one of those gals is named Gladys or Judy

[@stacystoltz8722]

Holiday cool back 50and 6owith Family s

[@josephduray6331]

Christmas?…I don’t think so. Not a single decoration, no tree, no presents.

[@ronnyvonallmen6892]

“Schlitz”…..

[@ChakraZulu1]

Wow the baby in the film is nearly 70 if still alive! Amazing to view the past in its glory