A Wisconsin museum exhibit will pay homage to Generation X's Christmas memories this holiday season. "A Very 1970s Christmas," features many favorite Generation X toys under a fake fir tree decorated with thick, gold tinsel garden. The tree sits in a living room...
JC Penney Christmas Catalog 1977 | via Wishbook Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. --Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina All the families wearing matching pajamas in the Christmas catalogs were all painstaking-happy. That's...
Santa Land in Putney, Vermont provided a lot of happy memories for at least four generations of American children who visited the Christmas theme park over the years. I would have loved this place! Unfortunately, over the years it fell into disrepair. Eventually, it...
source Beautiful Crissy Doll Before Samantha Parkington, Felicity Merriman and Mollie McIntyre, late-wave Baby Boomers and first-wave Gen Xers were loving on Crissy and Velvet Dolls. Cricket, Mia, Dina and Tressy, too. I bet there were a lot of these dolls given for...
...Summer, long forgotten and forgiven gives you away. Presses you into the chain links of a cold high fence, In the City of Angels. Tumbleweed, you gathered no snow. But in threes, gathered together, the angels make you into a snowman. Your thorns painted white and...
Rudolph's Shiny New Year, which debuted in 1975, bears an interesting, if not rather dark parallel, to the relationship between some Baby Boomers and Gen Xers, and thus, the perfect Saturday morning animation to share as we all begin 2010. In the feature, Rudolph is...
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...
photo from zellaby via flickr Gen Xers aren't buying antique furniture, but given their early appetite for nostalgia, their interest in small collectibles, like antique Christmas ornaments, will only grow. According to a recent article, How the Antique Business Can...