I saw this on the Bay and thought, yes, that's just the kind of Yule decoration my parents had in the house at Christmas.
Lots of plastic and flock, snowmen and little bombardiers with tall hats, typical of the Sixties and the Seventies.
I love the way Santa is looking down at that naughty little snowman doing its thing.
Like all good Sixties tat it was battery operated too!
Heaven!
Did your folks have festive ornaments like this?
While we had some glass baubles on the tree (early 1960s), I recall a lot of decoration was paper or cardboard, we even had some wartime cardboard tree decorations which I really liked. The cake had moulded plaster figures- a robin, santa and snowman, so I don't think there was much plastic. Not sure why there wasn't much plastic- we had a box of Xmas ornaments we re-used every year. Most of the plastic was my toys!
ReplyDeleteyes, I remember paper decorations too Andy. Paper tinsel stetched across the room and even wrapped round the tree. Those wartime decs sound great and are no doubt precious if theyre still around. I remember some moulded plaster nativity figures - Joseph, Mary etc - laid out on hay every year near the telephone. I've no idea where they went after my folks passed away. Glad to hear you had lots of plastic toys! I was never keen on wooden ones. Tin was fine too.
DeleteWell we still got our pine cone elves/gnomes on skis (my mum says the came from Woolies) that have been xmas decorations as far back as I remember. My mum still uses the old advent calender (allegedly from 1958) and has the Woolies xmas glass baubles dangling from her ceiling. We, to has a robin, snowman and other decs for the xmas cake. I think they were plastic and are long gone, as are all the paper decorations which we used up to the late 80's.
ReplyDeleteI love the sound of cone elves on skis Timmy! Lovely stuff! Cake toppers are brilliant too, plastic and old. I wonder if anyone had any astronauts on their Xmas Cakes in 1969?
DeleteMuch of our Christmas decorations were from the 1940's/1950's. But, around about the time my brother was born, my parents essentially retired almost all of it, and replaced it with 1970's tinsel...
ReplyDeleteA couple of years ago, while we were clearing the family home for sale, we came across pretty much everything from those pre-1970's Christmases. Some of it was unusable and essentially consisted of baking foil, red string and cardboard. Clearly in the make-do and mend, spirit of the War years. However, some of them were actual factory manufactured decorations, and only required a little repair work and were serviceable again. These vintage decoration were split 50/50 between my brother and I.
This year, we managed to 'Trim-Up two rooms. Our lounge, with pretty much our usual Christmas stuff, with the tree augmented with some genuine pre-1960s glass baubles. But... Those old paper pre-60's [garlands, I think?] are giving us a taste of Christmas Past in our Dining Room. The colours are still vibrant and they genuinely look beautiful. Just as I remember them from that far off Christmas of 1967, when Santa brought me a Zero-X.
A lovely gesture to trim up that second room old school Bill. It sounds atmospheric for sure and very nostalgic. The main event is over now sadly. Will you leave them up till the 6th?
DeleteYes my friend, 12 days before and 12 days after.
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