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Christmas Past: “Entertaining on Christmas”

Posted in FOOD & DRINK, Retro Christmas, Traditions, tagged , , , , , , on December 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

December 18, 1915, City Times, Galveston, Texas ENTERTAINING ON CHRISTMAS The Christmas season brings to mind the many Christmas days gone by, with their four great features—turkey, cranberry sauce, plum pudding and mince pie. It was a good old English custom, not to be rejected by the American colonists, although modificatlons were necessary to suit [...]

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Christmas advertising from a bygone day

Posted in Retro Christmas, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Mouse over thumbnails for year; click for large version; click again for even larger version.

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“A Visit From Saint Nicholas,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Dec. 1857

Posted in Art, Christmas Poetry, Traditions, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Note how Saint Nick in the leading illustration has something of a rustic “gnomish” quality, as compared to later, red-suited incarnations of the fat man. Click on thumbnails for full page view. Printing tip: these images will print better when saved to your computer and printed locally, rather than printing directly from your browser.

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Christmas Day!

Posted in Christmas 2007, tagged , , , , , , , , , on December 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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“Christmas Comes But Once a Year,” 1936

Posted in Christmas 2007, Christmas Video Clips, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

A Max and Dave Fleischer cartoon, in which “Grampy” (a Betty Boop character) saves Christmas for a group of orphans.

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Christmas Greeting

Posted in Christmas 2007, Christmas Poetry, tagged , , , , , , , , , on December 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Traditional Sing hey! Sing hey! For Christmas Day; Twine mistletoe and holly, For friendship glows In winter snows, And so let’s all be jolly.

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A Very Beatles Christmas

Posted in Christmas 2007, Christmas Video Clips, MUSIC & SONG, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

This 18-minute video employs portions from The Beatles fan club recordings, set to video.  Edited and produced by Matthew Hawes of  “The Happy Show!”

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“The Night Before Christmas” (1905)

Posted in Christmas 2007, Christmas Video Clips, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Brought to us by “Maid Marian,” [Maid Marian disabled embedding - who knows why - now brought to us by "Christmas Classic"] this is a 102 year old classic from Edwin S. Porter, the man who gave us The Great Train Robbery (1903).

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American Museum of Radio and Electricity: “Murder in the Museum”

Posted in Christmas 2007, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on December 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Where: American Museum of Radio and Electricity, 1312 Bay Street, Bellingham (map and directions) When: Dec. 22, 7:30 PM What: See and hear a live Christmas Mystery Thriller! It’s mayhem at a New England Radio Museum in this thriller adapted from Ngaio Marsh’s “Murder On The Air,” featuring Dame Edith’s famous sleuth Inspector Roderick Alleyn–who [...]

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The Christmas Season, 100 years ago

Posted in Christmas 2007, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Centralia Washington, The Centralia Chronicle, Dec. 12, 1907 Cumberland, Maryland, The Evening Times, Dec. 16, 1907

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