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Friday, December 10. 2010

Christmas, 1920

The 1920s Christmas pics on this site are great fun. Some can be embiggened, with wonderful detail. (I don't know how to enable embiggening on our site.)


I notice that Santa did not seem to use wrapping paper back then.


Posted by Bird Dog in Our Essays, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 21:25 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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Nice use of "embiggening." It's a perfectly cromulent word.
#1 Jim on 2010-12-10 22:07 (Reply)
I'll bet the toys in the above case were "gender-specific" enough that they didn't need to be wrapped. Neanderthals, those people...
#2 Big___Al on 2010-12-10 22:19 (Reply)
It was a practice then, that presents, and most times a fully decorated tree, miraculously appeared on Christmas Day, without need for wrapping, as Big Al has suggested. That meant that families could not enjoy tree as decoration for 2 or 3 weeks before Christmas, but then, tying burning homemade candles to dead tree limbs for more than one or two days was not necessarily a good idea. Merry Christmas everyone.
#3 Amazed on 2010-12-11 08:59 (Reply)
Amazed, sorry my sarcasm escaped you.
#3.1 Big___Al on 2010-12-11 09:58 (Reply)
Imagine what those toys would be worth to collectors today.
#4 feeblemind on 2010-12-11 09:01 (Reply)
So this was what Christmas trees looked like BM - Before Martha?

I remember similar trees from my non-Jewish friends' houses. They actually looked like they had been decorated by the people who lived in the house, rather than by a stylist.
#5 Ben David on 2010-12-11 12:11 (Reply)
We had one Christmas where presents were not wrapped. (Think the ol' man had a bit too much of the 'nog' and got ticked off at something -- I was too young to remember what might have set him off). Anyhow, for me, and I'm pretty sure my sister and mum, it was a downer. It was like Christmas morning was over in 10 seconds. It was not repeated.
#6 Bob in VA on 2010-12-11 12:12 (Reply)
Santa never wrapped our presents when I was a child. There would be a few wrapped gifts from my parents under the tree for a week or so before Christmas, but the gifts that didn't show up until Christmas morning weren't wrapped.
#7 arcs on 2010-12-12 07:28 (Reply)

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