Bonnie is shown with her mom during the Christmas season, early 1960s. |
I guess my best childhood Christmas memories were our Christmas trees. The
photo of me and mom must have been in the early '60s. Every year my mother would
decorate the fireplace mantel (seen in the above photo) with fruit, nuts and real evergreen garland. We also used
real evergreen garland to decorate the steps banister.
I still love decorated Christmas trees. I was able to find photos of trees from my childhood and trees from recent years.
I still love decorated Christmas trees. I was able to find photos of trees from my childhood and trees from recent years.
This is the same Christmas tree from the 1960s shown above.
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First tree in first house in Pennsylvania |
The tree on the left was the first Christmas tree in the first house I purchased, 1996. It was already decorated with mouse-themed decorations. My cat, Starr, climbed up the branches of this tree and did knock it over. A few
years later I bought a smaller 4-foot tree (no photo available) and used the same ornaments. When
I moved to Arizona I gave all those ornaments away (sigh).
This is my Arizona dragonfly tree decorated with purple ball ornaments. I have added more ornaments to it since, which are mostly Annalee mice ornaments.
Christmas tree in Arizona home decorated with dragonfly ornaments, purple ball ornaments, and Annalee ornaments |
Close-up of Arizona tree |
Aluminum pom-pom tree, like one Bonnie's family owned in the 1960s |
Pinwheel ornament from Bonnie's childhood |
Lastly, is a photo of the
only ornament from my childhood trees, a pinwheel ornament that I still use. The idea was that
it would spin from the heat of those large light bulbs we used. My
sister had a lot of our childhood ornaments, but I guess she gave them away when
she moved.
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Thanks, Bonnie! I love decorated Christmas trees, too. Your story helped me remember that part of my childhood Christmases that I had almost forgotten.
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Great Christmas story! I remember those spinning ornaments -- we had some too, plus we had bubble lights that had a long cylinder with liquid in it. The heat from the bulb would get the liquid to boil and you would see bubble come up the tube. We loved those ornaments!
ReplyDeleteLovely Christmas trees! I was happy to learn about the aluminum vintage tree as my mother in law just gave us one this year as she was sorting through old stuff to get ride of. It's about 5 ft tall and came with a spinning color wheel. It definitely doesn't give me the Christmasy feeling, but it is pretty "groovy". Lol.
ReplyDeleteSeeing Bonnie and her mother in the first photo was precious.
ReplyDeleteArlette
Wow that sure brought back memories of past Christmas trees! Thanks for that flashback!
ReplyDeleteWow!I remember seeing displays like this when I was little. Then the mall used to have a center display and I would stand and try to see everything too. Such great stories.
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