Enhanced 8mm Reel 09 - Christmas Celebrations (1957, 1958 & 1959)

[@kevinthompson4320]

Brings back such fond memories growing up in those days....I miss those who I loved back then who have passed. What I wouldn't give to go back!

[@TampaMikeD]

Agreed!

[@roberfaubus3455]

Me too the only thing I worry about was getting drafted during the Vietnam war.

[@michaeladamo1188]

Well said! And me also

[@manuelcastaneda7838]

Just how old are we.

[@kevinthompson4320]

@@manuelcastaneda7838 I'm 70...and those my age grew up in the best of times. If you're not anywhere near that age, you missed out! Enjoy life my friend!

[@katherinelewis6595]

So many memories that just make me happy to have . I am so glad I grew up in those days. We had hardly anything, but we had family love, and our church ⛪

[@TampaMikeD]

Glad you enjoyed it, these films that my father took are a treasure to our family.

[@terrycourt123]

How Christmas used to be simple presents families sharing no expensive play stations,computers etc.wonderful.

[@TampaMikeD]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@conniesaratoga3194]

All those gifts were advanced for those days, and quite expensive for toys of that time!

[@patrickryan1515]

And the home cooking. Dishes no one will ever make as tasty as my mother's.

[@Dstew57A]

So sweet…I think a better time than today. Blessed to have lived those years. Thank you for this.

[@TampaMikeD]

Glad you enjoyed it... we certainly miss a number of the folks in those films as they are no longer with us.

[@michaelgmoore5708]

Yes, most everyone is gone now. Just my sister and me are left. Nice to have the pictures and films to see. It's almost as good as having everyone still alive.

[@maryh1421]

We had our old 8mm movies converted to digital format. Wasn't cheap but well worth it for preserving precious memories from the 50s and 60s.

[@TampaMikeD]

Same here and worth every penny to do it!

[@haroldsmith1213]

id'd go back in a hot second 1956 and 57 i lived in cali.1958,1959 i was in Alaska,these films bring a tear,i don't know these people yet i feel i do--sadly most ate probably not with us any longer, great films your lucky to have them always.thanks for sharing.🌲

[@TampaMikeD]

Glad you enjoyed it and yes, a great many of those in the film are no longer with us.

[@susanparrish1380]

What a sweet video! Wow!😊 That little guy sure loves his nice new train, & boots, and the little rocking chair.....so adorable! It's so nice to see how things were back then, and for so many, it probably just seems like yesterday, and not all that long ago! It's neat too, that it's in colour! Nifty! Thank you for sharing this very memorable video, and happy new year, 2023 to everyone! 🥰🤍☃️💙⛄🤍🥰

[@TampaMikeD]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.

[@mizzmary861]

Thank you for sharing a much kinder era😊 Merry Christmas!

[@TampaMikeD]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@kmo3811]

I was born in 1957. I loved our Christmases, but what I miss most is Mom, Dad, Grandpa and Grandma. We 4 kids are the old ones now with our own kids and grandkids. What I would give for a trip to the past.....time machine anybody?

[@TampaMikeD]

Absolutely, would love to see and be with the people in that film who are no longer with us.

[@kathyrizzi8754]

I was 8, 9 & 10 these three yrs, always had Christmas at my grandparents. I miss them & everybody else now gone. ♥️

[@TampaMikeD]

All but a couple of the adults in that film are gone and like you, we miss them... especially the guy filming, my dad.

[@kathyrizzi8754]

@@TampaMikeD thank you for uploading such a wonderful Christmas with your family, it clearly touched my heart. 👍♥️

[@kathyrizzi8754]

P.S. I subscribed to your channel. 🥰

[@larry1824]

Heaven

[@TampaMikeD]

Yes it was

[@Ira88881]

Thank you for sharing this! My favorite part was the Kellog’s SUGAR Pops!

[@TampaMikeD]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@patrickkenney2536]

I wish I could go back there 😭

[@TampaMikeD]

Agreed

[@marionfordyce5504]

I remember these Christmas mornings

[@TampaMikeD]

They were great

[@mehchocolate1257]

@@TampaMikeD times have changed since then

[@glendawilliams8360]

Such sweet memories!! Reminds me of my childhood.Thank you so much for sharing.Merry Christmas.

[@TampaMikeD]

Glad you enjoyed it, wish there were more...

[@yfjfujcuufif9207]

Back when a few gifts made a kid happy at Christmas and people were happy just to be together and you knew the true meaning of Christmas ! Those truly were the golden days ! If we could only go back to them days ! 🌟 🎄

[@TampaMikeD]

A wonderful time indeed

[@Tearsofasilentheart]

Brought tears to my eyes..... Thankyou for posting. 💖

[@TampaMikeD]

Glad you enjoyed it, get pretty sentimental watching them too.

[@courtneycarter4493]

I remember how BRIGHT the lamp was😊great time and gifts too🎅

[@TampaMikeD]

Yes, and in this case he used twin mounted lights… they got really hot and unfortunately I found out the hard way. LOL

[@PK-bh1ww]

And those cameras with the big flash bulb that made you see spots for 10 minutes after your pic was taken. lol

[@smujer1]

The woman on the couch (first part of video), is just full of happiness and cheer!! Great video!

[@TampaMikeD]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@pamelapinskey3193]

Thank you for warming my heart.. Merry Christmas

[@TampaMikeD]

Glad you enjoyed it and a very merry Christmas to you too!

[@matrox]

1957 was my first Christmas.

[@TampaMikeD]

Wonderful times...

[@roberfaubus3455]

I was eight months old when I had my first Christmas I believe it was with my grandparents home on my mother side.

[@TampaMikeD]

Glad you enjoyed it. I was three months old (I’m the baby in the 1959 segment)

[@pattysouza2954]

These are wonderful. Such a happy time in our lives. Thank you for sharing this with us. ❤

[@TampaMikeD]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.

[@Theresa-z4r]

Oh yes to have all the family together again; Christmas Eve we had the holy supper, I am of Slovak heritage and my mother would make all things from scratch everything had butter on it😂we shopped at a local Newberry store that was up the front street we walked, bought our tree home with the one sled, walked to church for midnight mass, presents were simple, something you needed and a small toy and yes stockings with a tangerine and those rock candies shaped in trees, Angels , I remember my brother buying my mom what it seem to a gallon glass bottle of the most awful perfume but the bottle was cute, these photos remind me of the day when all the men had a cigarette in their mouth and a bottle of beer in their hand, oh happy days, so fortunate were we family was important and God was not forgotten🙏

[@TampaMikeD]

Sounds like a wonderful time for you and your family.

[@shorty7363]

Ok, now I want to watch home movies on the wall with the film projector!📽️ This brings back so many memories of Christmas Eve at my grandparents' house each year! They had curtains almost identical to those here! Their Christmas tree was similar also! There were so many things that reminded me of those happy days when my grandparents were still alive! Every Christmas Eve I still slowly drive by their old house and cry bittersweet tears!😭 Oh how I long to go back to that time and place! Thank you for the fond memories!💜

[@TampaMikeD]

What I enjoy most about the digitized versions of the films is how much clearer they are than when we used to show them on a screen or the wall. There were things in some of them I had never noticed before.

[@shorty7363]

@@TampaMikeD That's true, but I'm a nostalgic, old fashioned person. I cherish the old ways. That's where the memories are.💜

[@mattdavid9357]

I miss those days miss my loved ones that have since passed also😢 born in 1959 but the 60s were happiest for me missing them all so much!

[@TampaMikeD]

Agreed, most of those in these films have left us and are deeply missed.

[@BanthaPooDoo64]

Music choice is awesome, film is is got great clarity must be 16mm film know those light attachments were hot back then

[@TampaMikeD]

Thank you! The raw 8mm footage I started with wasn’t very good, but with the aid of AI software and tweaking in Premiere, it made a difference. Thanks for the compliment on the music too, it’s all original compositions.

[@janethollman7894]

A much simpler way of life l remember them with such joy

[@TampaMikeD]

Glad you enjoyed it, my family cherishes the memories.

[@kathyandersen8243]

I want to cry.i want to go home.

[@TampaMikeD]

Watching can certainly be emotional for our families, so many in these films have passed on.

[@ariankaragiozi]

I remember in 60's my father gave me a train same as that in the video 👍😎

[@TampaMikeD]

Those were awesome and my brother still has it.

[@michaelgmoore5708]

We had respect and mature people in families then.

[@TampaMikeD]

A wonderful time to be sure

[@victorianomadmadison5205]

The greatest hero of all time was born in 1959 my father he passed away 21 /10/2022 ❤️

[@TampaMikeD]

We’re so sorry for your loss.

[@aloberneder8570]

Mike, you did a fantastic job with this video. Thank you for sharing your family Christmas with us. It is nice to go back in time (if even for just a few moments) when watching this video. Things were sure simpler and more relaxing back then! If you have any Christmas videos from other years, I would encourage you to post them as well. 😊

[@TampaMikeD]

Thank you and I’m glad you enjoyed it. There is another video on my channel that has more spanning 1957 to 1994 that added those years that were video taped. Alas, there was no film or video for the majority of those years. We began videoing this past year so those in the future can enjoy as you and I have the past. Thanks again!

[@jamestucker9524]

Christmas Eve in the 1950s was the night that I didn't sleep. I remember my family getting together on Christmas Day and my being so excited and exhausted that I fell asleep on my parents bed . Everyone, I'm sure , were having a great time while I was fast asleep.

[@TampaMikeD]

The anticipation definitely kept sleep from most kids, LOL... glad you enjoyed it.

[@michaelgmoore5708]

About 20 years ago I bought the American Flyer Mountaineer train set made in 1956 by the A. C. Gilbert Co. Like new all in boxes for about$150. I collect many from the 1950s to early 1960s

[@TampaMikeD]

Wow, sounds like a great find!

[@bryanspindle4455]

We had a Lionel train set in the late 50s. We lived in a very small house and my mother got rid of it because we didn't have room for it. 😢

[@АллаПьяных]

Я никогда никогда не хотела вернуться в прошлое. Фильм согрел меня воспоминаниями о детстве ... и одолела настольгия.

[@TampaMikeD]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@eunicel5964]

Precious

[@TampaMikeD]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@Christina-yq7xg]

Awesome video

[@TampaMikeD]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

[@marionfordyce5504]

❤

[@guilhrrminacarvalho6114]

So sweet a better times😍

[@TampaMikeD]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@megschramm8307]

The cat demonstrating the old saying If I fits I sits!

[@TampaMikeD]

Cats and boxes have apparently been a thing for much longer than I thought. LOL

[@venomlily1651]

Back when prayer was still in schools across the U.S., people actually socialized FACE TO FACE, common sense was even taught in cartoons and it was common to see people actually hug friends they hadn't seen in a while .

[@TampaMikeD]

Yep, common sense has been on an extended holiday for quite some time hasn't it...

[@lauragoveia160]

Is that beautiful baby at Christmas 1959 you?

[@TampaMikeD]

Yes thank you, that was my very first Christmas.

[@t-bo2734]

Are any of the adults featured in these films still living?

[@TampaMikeD]

Yes, a couple that I can think of. One is 95 years old.

[@larry1824]

Really good toys. No computer woke crap just gun and innocence!!!!!

[@TampaMikeD]

Another time for sure

[@larry1824]

@@TampaMikeD I owned more cap guns than anybody I knew and now own real guns but have not yet turned into Charlie Starkweather!!!!!!!!!

[@meankitten1]

A time when everyone was happy with what they received and there wasn’t 500 presents under the tree. Simple times.

[@TampaMikeD]

A simpler time indeed

[@bryanspindle4455]

We didn't get a ton of presents then but we sure appreciated what we got. Most of our relatives lived in another state so we didn't get together like this at Christmas but we did during summer vacations.

[@jefffoster3557]

a toaster.....in the last vid I saw mom getting an iron. Walter Williams would be proud of these gift givers.

[@TampaMikeD]

A very different time…

[@rodg011]

Sucks to get old ,but if your not old, you did not get the chance to live in these simple times.

[@TampaMikeD]

Getting old certainly has its challenges, but it’s better than the alternative

[@tonycollazorappo]

I was born in 1961, I remember having a nice train set like this one. I think the name of the company that made train set like these and the fancy trains that went with the set was Lionel trains, almost realistic looking. I still have a front engine to the set.

[@TampaMikeD]

Almost positive that you’re right about the name. They were my brother’s, I wasn’t around just yet. He still has the locomotive and a few of the cars. I did get to play with it after arrived and got a little older LOL.

[@louise_rose]

In the 80s, rock legend and model trains enthusiast Neil Young invested a serious amount of money in Lionel to help them upgrade their business for the new times, and even sat on the board I think! :) Over here in Europe, the German Märklin label has enjoyed the same kind of standing with quality models of both trains, stations and other railway gear. They were big around that time (the Cold War years) and I think they're still a major player. These videos are lovely, really a more innocent time. :)

[@michaelgmoore5708]

Those were American Flyer trains by The A.C Gilbert Co. The most realistic electric trains ever made. Gilbert died and went broke in 1966. Lionel Train Corp. bought them out by just after that time. Lionel makes their Postwar 0 Gauge and new 0 Gauge trains more than ever now. American Flyer Postwar and later are also being made every year now and new toy train clubs are all over the country now. Huge layouts of all the gauges are being built more than ever. Look up the TCA and call them to find out every thing about where clubs and retail train stores are nowadays.

[@mazhansen8804]

Mum looks impressed with her toaster🥺

[@TampaMikeD]

Practical gifts are the best sometimes.

[@zzxyz73]

Love these! Did she get a mango, ironing thing?

[@TampaMikeD]

Yes it is some sort of ironing contraption, can’t tell anything more about unfortunately.

[@megschramm8307]

The Christmas I was four years old, Santa brought me the only thing I wanted:. Matty Mattel talking doll!! I had no interest in anything else that day, and my aunt and uncle's were amazed!

[@TampaMikeD]

Sounds like a great Christmas!

[@Rainmaker2]

1959 i was 10 months old.But id like to think i got cowboy boots also.Which i soon traded in for Beatle Boots.

[@TampaMikeD]

My brother sure seemed to enjoy those cowboy boots LOL

[@Glitch-qj3nj]

Almost everybody in glasses

[@TampaMikeD]

Yep, not a contact lens in the house LOL

[@slim-oneslim8014]

The boy with the train would be about 70 now?

[@TampaMikeD]

Yes he is

[@theresacoringgray6885]

I hadn't been born at this point.....

[@TampaMikeD]

Only made it into the final year myself

[@ronnibertoli1907]

Isto dói 😢

[@TampaMikeD]

We miss so many of them

[@whereswaldo5740]

Yeah. Great memories. We used to joke about those lights for filming being so bright the planes were going to land at our house instead of the airport. And … Oh did you go to Florida over Christmasvacation you’re so tan?! No. Home movies.

[@TampaMikeD]

Yep, those lights were bright and hot too.

[@lostagain6518]

Doesn't appear to be many plastic toys huh. Today so many interesting plastic things yup. Even people.

[@TampaMikeD]

Definitely a different time

[@johnrobertd748]

I was born in 1958.

[@TampaMikeD]

Right behind you in 59

[@connorcallan4978]

Sad most of these people are dead

[@TampaMikeD]

Yes it is and we are thankful to have all the film footage to remember them.

[@robertpasquini4097]

Obviously wealthy folks. Those kids got a lot of stuff.

[@TampaMikeD]

Actually they did without so their kids could do with

[@slim-oneslim8014]

A lot of "stuff" 😅