Old Tyme Christmas Photos
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oscarflytyer
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I wish I had, or knew where the old photos (late '60's/early '70s) or our old white flocked Christmas trees were... I want one again, for old time's sake, but wife isn't keen on it. One year, I am just gonna bring one home!
And, I bought a Daisy Red Rider BB gun for our family Dirty Santa this year! 5 boys and two great DILs (one Son/DIL won't be here). But I almost guarantee and almost wrestling match for the BB gun! AND, I will have to keep them away from my BB stash or they will go outside and shoot any and everything - in the neighborhood!
PS: Wally World has them for $25. And one I got years ago for all the boys sits in my wife's office! She commandeered it cpl years ago!
And, I bought a Daisy Red Rider BB gun for our family Dirty Santa this year! 5 boys and two great DILs (one Son/DIL won't be here). But I almost guarantee and almost wrestling match for the BB gun! AND, I will have to keep them away from my BB stash or they will go outside and shoot any and everything - in the neighborhood!
PS: Wally World has them for $25. And one I got years ago for all the boys sits in my wife's office! She commandeered it cpl years ago!
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Pistolero
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That kiddy car looks pretty cool in the #12 pic, but the tree is sure tangled up in the overhead light! I am surprised
on the date, would have guessed at least 20 years earlier.
As far as the small candles on the other tree, just WOW. That always seemed like a guaranteed house fire
to me.
Bill
on the date, would have guessed at least 20 years earlier.
As far as the small candles on the other tree, just WOW. That always seemed like a guaranteed house fire
to me.
Bill
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Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Know the feeling. There's a convenience store sitting on my grandparents house site. All the huge white pines I looked at every day for 20 some years are gone. The hill from the road to their lawn I dreaded mowing isn't even there any more.
Change? Phooey!
Pistolero
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From my house in suburbia, it is a couple of blocks to the next major intersection. In the 80s across that
street was a small cow farm, about 40 acres. Finally in the middle 90s or so, the farmer either died or
sold out and moved and it was quickly taken over, leveled everything flat, turned the two small creeks into
underground concrete pipe drainage, and built it out into suburbia. Amazing change. Now just a bunch of
homes, no hint that only 20-25 years ago it was a working farm with about 30-40 head of cattle.
street was a small cow farm, about 40 acres. Finally in the middle 90s or so, the farmer either died or
sold out and moved and it was quickly taken over, leveled everything flat, turned the two small creeks into
underground concrete pipe drainage, and built it out into suburbia. Amazing change. Now just a bunch of
homes, no hint that only 20-25 years ago it was a working farm with about 30-40 head of cattle.
JWFilips
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OK This one is for Oscarflytyer!:
Another stocking-stuffer from the Shorpy Christmas closet: Christmas 1954. My grandmother Sarah Hall (1904-2000, last seen here) and her daughter, my Aunt Barbara (1935-2017), at home in Miami Shores. 35mm Kodachrome by my grandfather Shepard. The tree is a northern blue spruce, spray-painted white with his workshop air compressor.
Another stocking-stuffer from the Shorpy Christmas closet: Christmas 1954. My grandmother Sarah Hall (1904-2000, last seen here) and her daughter, my Aunt Barbara (1935-2017), at home in Miami Shores. 35mm Kodachrome by my grandfather Shepard. The tree is a northern blue spruce, spray-painted white with his workshop air compressor.
oscarflytyer
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Sweet! Kool pic, AND that he painted it with his air compressor! Thanx JW!