Following are some of my favorite Christmas commercials from the 1970s and 80s. My favorite one is the first one featuring Folgers Coffee and Peter coming home for Christmas. I related very much to this commercial. As the youngest of four, I watched my older siblings leave home one-by-one. I missed them so much and […]
1971: The Homecoming, A Christmas Story
The one thing I really didn’t like about The Walton’s was that Grandma and Grandpa always bickered at each other. Remember her nickname for him, Old Man? There were other things I didn’t like, too, but I still watched the TV series faithfully throughout my entire Generation X childhood. The Homecoming: A Christmas Story The […]
Charlie Brown Thanksgiving 1973 [Linus Van Pelt’s Prayer]
From Snoopy and Woodstock wearing pilgrim outfits to Snoopy getting snapped between the ping pong table, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving has long been a favorite among all generations of Americans, not just Generation X. Still, this TV special debuted in 1973, and so the children who first watched this were Gen Xers. In the days […]