Got a childhood Christmas photo to share?

[nolabear]

Me and littlesisterbear, circa 1967. Man, that tree...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Here ya go, my dear nolabear!

Sorry, it took me a bit to scan this old pic...and then find it, and get it into the Photobucket!

Christmas 1947!

[nolabear]

2. Nice! Your dolly?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. I no longer remember the doll, but it had to have been for me...

My parents probably took this picture the night before, after my brother and I were asleep.

They always made every effort to give us what we'd asked for. That was one of the happiest times of my childhood!

[monmouth3]

24. Looks like a "Betsy-Wetsy" doll CalPeg. I had one too but left it outside and it tanned. I had the

coolest doll in town..

[Hell Hath No Fury]

3. Circa 1963 -

I'm the one with the plug in my mouth atop my faithful steed. Smokey the Bear was my Tonto. My sisters are getting their first Barbie dolls.

Your tree is awesome! Classic, with the color wheel and everything.

[nolabear]

8. Are those Reader's Digest Condensed Books on that shelf?

You guys were adorable. Tinsel is prominent in lots of these photos. Happily, it fell out of favor. I remember hauling that stuff out of the vacuum.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

12. Good eye!

Yes those are. My Grandma was all about Reader's Digest anything. I think I even got a set of RD albums of Muzaked popular songs that were not by the original artists -- as a teen I thought that really, really weird.

I actually still have and us my tinsel -- found around 10 vintage boxes at a garage sale for a quarter a piece. I have cats, which makes tinsel time EXTRA fun.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Here's one, from a looong time ago.

Mom, Dad, me and little brother.

[nolabear]

6. I'd love to know what everyone was looking at!

You're cute and Little Brother looks tickled.

[pipi_k]

5. Me and

my Memere (in the background)

Christmas, 1953

[nolabear]

7. Aw, love the outfit.

[pipi_k]

22. thank you...

It's a nice distraction from the shitty 1950s carpet and forest green pineapple motif sofa (that we actually ended up inheriting when my aunt and uncle got a new living room set some years later)

[nolabear]

23. LOL! Well, fashion is a subjective thing. I think the freedom of those times gave people odd ideas.

Designers, I mean. And then people got excited about it and wanted to be hip. My mother loved that godawful aluminum tree. I'm sure I liked it fine in some ways but I like the very green, smelly, needle-shedding, cat-tempting, decorated with all the things we've made and collected over the years homey type tree. Come to think of it, that was a huge difference between my mother and the way I am.

[frogmarch]

10. My younger sister, 1955

with our cat, Harold. I've always loved this picture.

[nolabear]

13. It's a really sweet photo!

And Harold was a very tolerant cat!

[annabanana]

11. Here you go:

Me & my kid brother around 1955, hanging up the stockings

[nolabear]

14. Awwww...that's so Norman Rockwell.

I know pictures don't necessarily reflect life, but that's an iconic image.

[BuddhaGirl]

15. oooohh I love the silver tinsel tree!

my grandparents had one in the 60's, and they had a four color light disk that rotated, shining the different colors on the silver tree...it was mesmerizing to me as a 4 year old LOL

[BuddhaGirl]

16. I LOVED to go see Santa

I think I was three or four here (1965 or 1966), in my favorite red coat and hat!

[nolabear]

19. So cute. You could have been an elf.

[Cadfael]

17. my mom & dad

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[nolabear]

20. Flocking!! Another tradition gone.

Probably a flammable one! Your parents are so cute, esp. your mom.

[Archae]

18. An aluminum tree!

We had one of those in the mid-70's, a grand total of *ONE* year.

Complete with the spotlight and color wheel!

[nolabear]

21. Yeah, it was definitely a trip. Years later that sister had a furniture store

and searched all over for those trees and wheels for her displays. It was one of the first uses we ever found for ebay; people were selling old ones all over the place.