The 1950s Christmas: The Christmas that Became the Future 📻🎄✨

[@JB-tz8fu]

Keep going sis. Dont stop. Young women need your voice. Especially young women of colo

[@RMFeminine4TheWin]

*many thanx as always for your continued support. best wishes to you & your this holiday season.* 🙏🏽

[@angieallen4884]

I have Sarah Archer's book "Midcentury Christmas" Stocking Stuffer Edition and pull it out every year just for fun. As someone born midcentury myself, it always evokes happy memories! Great video; thanks!

[@pamelabrucker1326]

Great video. Growing up in the 50s, it was all about the baby dolls. Also, I loved the candles in the window and the bubblers on the tree.

[@jayteadesigns]

Ahhh! The Christmases of my childhood - simply the best ever!

[@marknewton6984]

A book, baseball and record. Total: $12 Merry Christmas!

[@pattycake8272]

I never really cared for the aluminum tree until I understand what it stood for, still like a small green one though. I remember being pretty poor but still a couple of Christmases I got what I asked for. One time I wanted a Michael Jackson tape and my mom got me a Jackson 5 tape...🤦. I couldn't be mad.

[@christine899]

Living in the UK, our Christmas's in the 1950's were not as opulent as in the US, Food rationing did not stop till 1954 for us I was 9 years old, we had good times at Christmas because our parents did their best to make it special for us, I remember that Christmas celebrations started to get better as we went into the 1960's but still not on the scale as you in the US...Now it has completely gone over the top and people spend ridiculous amounts of money, they can't really afford, I am glad I no longer keep it, as it has long since stopped being a religious celebration.

[@mark-xx1lt]

We had the Nativity Scene made with wood, straw, & both ceramic/plastic figurines. We had this from the fifties through the nineties.

[@footballlvnlady]

We had an aluminum tree in early 60’s. Then my parents got flocked trees until the early 70’s. The flocked trees were okay but just boring with balls and no lights. My parents finally got a fake green tree and we had colored lights, garland and new decorations. My mom and other relatives made jello molds for holidays. They had fruit in but never vegetables. My mom would use a can of fruit cocktail in the jello. One decoration I saw on a great aunts tree were bubble lights. I had never seen them before or since. I went to the NOMA company and bought a couple sets. I put them on my fireplace mantel. They are so pretty! I think two of the lights stopped bubbling. I will get more this year. A funny story was one Christmas Eve in the 70’s my parents had me play Santa. My sisters were much younger than I. My mom had put the presents in the trunk of the car. My sisters were always snooping. We had a brutal cold spell that year. We had two cars them. I brought the presents in while my family was at Christmas Eve church. My youngest sister got a Chatty Cathy doll. She was very cold. When my parents came home my sister started playing with the doll. She pulled the string but the doll hadn’t thawed yet. Instead of saying a word it was drawn out. My sister looked at the doll kind of weird. The doll thawed and her speech got faster. 😊

[@jrnfw4060]

My first Christmas was in 1950, and I was an infant. I have old B&W family photographs of the tree, of Mama and me in the front room of our ranch house. Of course, I have no memory of that one. A lot more relatives were alive then, and gave me, the newborn, lots of huge stuffed animals and other wonderful gifts which I enjoyed throughout my early childhood. I recall the bubble lights. They were on our trees in the 50s. The bowls were shaped better than modern bubble lights, so they stayed upright on the tree branches. Those were the days.

[@martina21953]

It was a magical time for kids. I agree with the Victorian Christmas and the Mid 20th Century Christmas traditions. The 20th Century celebrations need a shorter name. LOL!

[@jrnfw4060]

I've always found modern day tinsel difficult to work with. It always sticks to itself and then the ends stick together once it's over a tree branch. I recall the tinsel we had back in the 50s and 60s wasn't like that. It went on much more smoothly. Some things don't improve as time and technology advance. Today's tinsel is cheaply made, and behaves accordingly.

[@jaybennett236]

I think the tinsel in the 1950's and 60's was leftover aluminum "chaff" used by bombers in WWII. Modern tinsel is plastic that I never use!

[@danec2572]

RM, along with the great 1950s knowledge, rm, also highlighted all the nasty food, lol

[@RMFeminine4TheWin]

*you're welcome Sir Dane C, Lol!!! HNY!!!* 😁🥂🌟

[@lawyer1165]

Your commentary will be easier to hear clearly if you turn down the music.

[@jons.6216]

There's an equally fun and practical hardware store in my city that sells the revivalist ornaments from Shiny Brite and they're wonderful! My parents moved the then family into my birth home in 1960 and there are several pictures from that time of lots of aluminum foil decorations made. I think it was by the mid sixties when my brother and I came along that my mom decided it was time to "retire" that older stuff, likely to a few pouts and frowns from my older siblings that probably helped make many of them! Lastly, one of my favorite commentaries of the atomic age was the 1961 Christmas episode of Hazel where she complained all throughout the episode about that wrapping paper at Masterson's Department Store! "Pink paper with orange ribbon! That ain't Christmassy!* Haha!

[@RMFeminine4TheWin]

*how neat!!! thanx ever so for watching & sharing your wonderful memories. please subscribe for more swell vintage content. HNY!!!* ☺🥂✨

[@MrBucsfan47]

Downplayed the racism in the 50’s. No black family could have moved into the suburban neighborhoods those post war years. The 50’s are overrated.