Christmas in the 60s

Decorated with ornaments made of papier mache or cut from tin cans, Designer Gere Kavanaugh's peppermint-stripe tree -- made of drinking straws -- can hang

© Original 35mm Kodachrome slide

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New York Up & Down is a fascinating series by now octogenarian Frank Horvat that shows us what a major metropolis looked like back in the early 1980s.

Was Christmas better in the seventies? All that tinsel, polyester and fake snow. Yesterday, I shared my gift guide for the nostalgic old world traveller, today, I thought we'd get a little less classy and a little more sassy... A Classy Cross Stitch Cross-stitches by Alicia Watkins availabl

The aluminum Christmas tree became extremely popular and sought after by the public in the early and mid-1960s. With beautiful mercury glass...

The history of Christmas trees goes back to the symbolic use of evergreens in ancient Egypt and Rome and continues with the German tradition...

Gentlepersons: The Kodachrome Pictures: These recently uploaded Kodachrome pictures have no artistic value. They were just uploaded to be representative of consumer Kodachrome picture recording during about 70 of the 75 years that Kodachrome was commercially available to the public. Unlike in today’s digital world it took time, money and effort to make a Kodachrome slide. We took fewer pictures, trying to stretch resources, but some sere still frivolous. I’m 97 and all tuckered out. I…

Christmas is coming! A submitted photo collection of Flickr's members that shows how Americans enjoyed it from the 1970s. Christmas in L...

A couple days ago, I found myself feeling nostalgic in a “Christmasy” sort of way: I was wishing I could pick up some of the old Christmas catalogs that I used to lose myself in back in…