I got this lovely postcard from the antique mall near my house today. It's dated April 3, 1912, and has a one cent postage stamp on the other side with the message.
I've been posting daily Christmas images -- mostly modern, or what I posted here last year -- over on my own LiveJournal blog since the day after Thanksgiving...
But today I posted some stuff from the 40s thru the 60s, most of which I don't think I've posted here before, so you might want to check them out:
But today I posted some stuff from the 40s thru the 60s, most of which I don't think I've posted here before, so you might want to check them out:
- Mood:
nostalgic
Okay, so I didn't collect much new vintage images this year, but I thought members of this group may be interested in some websites that easily allow you to manipulate photos, and which are offering seasonal templates...
These are the pictures I used for the following manips:
( Example photo manips under the cut... )
These are the pictures I used for the following manips:
( Example photo manips under the cut... )
- Mood:
creative
Similar to the Halloween 1953 prompt, the year of my birth seems to have been very sexy around holidays...
But the following shows that "The War On Christmas" is nothing new...
Well, let's just see what the Workers of Iniquity had in store for Christmas, 1953:
Damn! This lady has a Christmas tree growing out of her head, just like the lady in my icon!
Ann must have just flown in from sunny California to be so tan in this picture...
Damn if we didn't have this exact same vacuum cleaner! Same color and all!
But my Mom never swooned on the floor over it! In fact it was one of my mother's soapbox issues, she hated when appliances were given as a Christmas or birthday gift, such items were "for the house" and not personal enough for her.
I think the gal in the pink dress will be swooning on the floor over a vacuum cleaner in the morning...
Okay, if this doesn't sum up the 1950s, I don't know what does!
The Potatoheads, back when they were real potatoes...
Where's Waldo?
North Pole meets the Holy Land, via California:
Mrs. Brown guard's Charlie's tree...
- Mood:
amused
Just like a couple of months ago... go to Google Images and put in Christmas [year you were born]...
These prices seem a little high.
If that kid still had that toy, he could sell it on Ebay for a million bucks.
When was the last time you got so excited about a new bathrobe and moccasin slippers?
I had one of those! (The horse, I mean. I don't know what that thing in the foreground is, but it's scaring me.)
These gals are stylin'.
This little girl looks like someone currently famous but I can't think who. She has a new pink refrigerator that is probably rusting away in the landfill along with the above robot toy.
What's Christmas without Elvis?
Christmas hasn't changed that much in 55 years. After you open the box, you still have to figure out how to operate whatever it was you got.
Themes in decorating the house haven't changed much, though the reindeer were probably cut out of masonite on a jigsaw. And at the price of outdoor lights back then, this must have been one swank front yard.
These prices seem a little high.
If that kid still had that toy, he could sell it on Ebay for a million bucks.
When was the last time you got so excited about a new bathrobe and moccasin slippers?
I had one of those! (The horse, I mean. I don't know what that thing in the foreground is, but it's scaring me.)
These gals are stylin'.
This little girl looks like someone currently famous but I can't think who. She has a new pink refrigerator that is probably rusting away in the landfill along with the above robot toy.
What's Christmas without Elvis?
Christmas hasn't changed that much in 55 years. After you open the box, you still have to figure out how to operate whatever it was you got.
Themes in decorating the house haven't changed much, though the reindeer were probably cut out of masonite on a jigsaw. And at the price of outdoor lights back then, this must have been one swank front yard.
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anita_margarita's challenge and did a Google Image search on the word "Halloween", and the year of my birth, which is 1953.The results were less cute, and generally wierder than what 1956 turned up! I even got some advertisements from Halloween, 1953.
- Mood: amused
This is kind of fun to do. Go to Google Images. Put in "Halloween (the year you were born)" and submit some of the photos.
Here's what Halloween looked like in 1956:
Here's what Halloween looked like in 1956:
- Mood:
cheerful
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- doylescordy : 1912 Easter Postcard [+0]
- majorjune : Some MidCentury Christmas Images [+1]
- majorjune : Holiday Photo Manips [+3]
- majorjune : Getting On The Christmas Time-Traveling Train -- Next Stop, 1953 [+3]
- aurora77 : Christmas 1977 [+3]
- anita_margarita : CHRISTMAS 1956 [+1]
- majorjune : Halloween 1953 [+4]
- anita_margarita : YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS... [+1]
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