Christmas and television have had a long history together, and year after year, lists are trotted out, touting the same iconic moments that virtually everyone has seen on multiple occasions. With all ...
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Creepy Santa dolls, ornaments made with toxic materials, and highly conductive aluminum Christmas trees — some vintage Christmas decor pieces ...
We should have been astronauts, my brother and me. At least that’s what my dad used to say whenever he reminisced about that one dizzying Christmas back in the early 1960s. It must have been a good ...
Buying a Christmas tree has always been a holiday tradition, but the price attached to it has changed dramatically over the decades. In the 1960s and 1970s, a real tree was a small, almost forgettable ...
Today you can listen to whatever you want on Apple Music or Spotify, but back in the 1960s, your Christmas music was on the radio or on vinyl. It seems unlikely today, but Goodyear and Firestone sold ...
The documentary Good Ol' Freda, centered around the teenage secretary of The Beatles, was named after a snippet from the band's 1963 Christmas record, which they made annually for their fan club. On ...
"Happy Xmas (War Is Over) is a popular songThe Christmas hit was written by John Lennon and Yoko OnoLearn more about the song's meaning Despite its roots in the counterculture of the 1960s, "Happy ...
Christmas came early for one Texas great-grandfather, whose wish was to hear the holiday song he wrote in the 1960s finally make its debut on the radio. Back in 1965, Johnny Gondesen wrote the catchy ...
"Those magic days before Christmas... days full of great anticipation. We discovered that there is as much joy in giving as receiving." Christmas began for me, as a child, when the Christmas annuals ...