1960-'s Christmas Memories

[sandramaac]

Hey you kids of the 1960's----what your memory of Christmas Time

I can vividly remember our


Silver Tinsel Tree-----the one with the color coded branches

Tear Drop Shiny Brite Ornaments---in red or blue or course

The Color Wheel---need I say more


anyone have any other fab memories

 

[Sandy51]

After my Grandmother died, my Grandfather got one of those aluminum trees with the color wheel. All the kids HATED it! How could it be Christmas with that thing in the living room?

Sandy

 

[newmousecateer]

Christmas at Nana and Gramps house. When you walked into their enclosed front porch, they had a the aluminum tree with the colored wheel. Fannie May chocolate Santas with dollar bills taped to them. A live Christmas tree in the finished basement where we had dinner, at least 15 to 20 of us. Gramp's homemade egg nog. Turkey, lamb, ham, with all the trimmings. And Gramps laying claim to the gizzards!

 

[Lucky4me]

A fake white tree...ugly!

Bing Crosby Christmas albums

Mistletoe and the neighbors smooching under it.

My baby sister drooling on and grabbing all my presents

wooden dolls in my stocking

an orange in my stocking

sneaking down the stairs at 5am and looking in my stocking...

 

[Goofyposter]

ok.....shoot me now.....I still put up the all aluminum tree and the color wheel I had as a kid...and I put SATIN balls on it too! it's not our only Christmas tree...but I still LOVE it!

 

[Krisu]

My brother waking up at 4 a.m. on Christmas morning finding a pogo stick addressed to him and proceeding to hop around the house into my parents room. They did not appreciate that since they had just gotten to bed after assembling and wrapping gifts

 

[Dan Murphy]

How about pink flocked???

 

[nativetxn]

I wish I still had that silver tree of ours, with the color wheel. My sister would lay in a dark room with only the color wheel light going and listen to Christmas Carols and talk about stuff, it was almost hynotic. It's a sweet memory

 

[Serena]

I barely remember the color wheel. I was very young at the time.

 

[paras4ri]

Originally posted by nativetxn
I wish I still had that silver tree of ours, with the color wheel. My sister would lay in a dark room with only the color wheel light going and listen to Christmas Carols and talk about stuff, it was almost hynotic. It's a sweet memory

My in-laws still have one....and they live right off the BeeLine Expressway behind Sea World. Wanna stop and pick it up next month?

My memories include:

Andy Williams Christmas specials when he was married to Claudine Longet (sp?)

waiting all year to watch Rudolph again.....no such thing as video or dvd

ribbon candy

a doll named Suzy Smart who came with her own school desk and chalkboard

and most importantly, my Dad, who died in 1967

 

[nativetxn]

Do you think they would sell it to me paras4ri?

 

[KimRaye]

My Mrs. Beasley doll!!

My brother's Superman action figure.

Grandma's Color Wheel!! I thought it was cool back then.

One year, having a ribbon tied to the tree to follow through the apartment into my parent's bedroom to find our BIG presents! Mine was a new bike!

One of my uncle's coming over every Christmas morning with 1 or more of my cousins, to bring my brother a present.

 

[PandyPaws]

Real Tinsel! The real heavy stuff that you could drape one strand at a time (and it didnt fly around when you walked past the tree )

 

[JasonLyons]

I wish I could go back for one more Christmas eve as a kid in the 60,s, I would hang on to every minute of it

 

[Olaf]

Chatty Kathie

Skipper with lots of outfits!

Chemistry set with real acid in it (never happen today)

Green easy bake oven

big fat colored bulbs on the tree, with tons of tinsel

a new Zenith Color TV for X-mas 1967 (one had to get up from the couch and flip the dial)

Merry Poppins doll

Sleeping beauty watch

 

[Krisu]

My sister getting an Easy Bake Oven, and thinking to myself, who would want that?? Fast forward a few years, she went to Culinary School and became a chef and I still hate to cook

 

[sandramaac]

I remember my granparents watching the Lawrence Welk Christmas Special and the Andy Williams Special. Remember the Lennon Sister were always on


Remember how we all waited for Rudolph and Frosty and the Little Drummer Boy to come on


I also remember some fab gifts

the game bobby trap where all the pieces were wooden and not plastic

A spirograph--with oh my god pins in it, to hold they wheels while you made you designs(bought when for my dd when she was little----never worked because you had to hold the darn circles!!)

And remember ribbon candy and chocolate straws

 

[Local_Girl]

...the Sing Along with Mitch Miller Christmas album
...waiting to see my favorites, the Grinch and Charlie Brown
...longing for a flocked tree
...cruising the aisles of the toy department at Sears, and pausing by the Barbies...
What fun to remember...

 

[sandramaac]

OK I HAVE IT

THE ULTIMATE 1960's CHRISTMAS MEMORY







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THE SEARS CHRISTMAS WISH BOOK

 

[snoopy]

Whats a color wheel?