Happy faces, happy people, simple times....great times...great childhood memories!

@greyghostscsa394

2 жыл бұрын

America was so much better back then. Today this country is a disgrace.

@caroltenge5147

2 жыл бұрын

reflections from a country thats finished.

@davidstaudohar6733

Жыл бұрын

How about Dean Martin singing along great sound track 👍👍‼️

I was born a year later. This reminded me of Christmas at my grandmother's house. Everyone was dressed-up. Great memories. Thanks for posting.

I still say life was better back then.

@mmwaashumslowww7167

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! I have no doubt about that, who thinks that life is good now?. A world full of lies, corruption and greed that's off the scale and the true meaning of Christmas has been lost.

@greyghostscsa394

2 жыл бұрын

I’d give anything to be able to go back and live in the 1950’s forever. I can’t stand living in 2022. It’s a living nightmare.

@bellalogan414

2 жыл бұрын

@@greyghostscsa394 I agree

@praline4157

2 жыл бұрын

I agree!

@mzwere1

2 жыл бұрын

My parents who were teens in late 50s certainly loved it the just as I did being their age in 80s, two great time periods

Wow the baby in the film is nearly 70 if still alive! Amazing to view the past in its glory

I was 8 that year. Now I am 74. Those were golden days.

Love home videos like this. Thanks for sharing 😍

Made me tear up again ... such beautiful times for most of us that is. I notice the children are playing games instead of playing on computer games,, how lovely. Everyone looks so happy and I see the men are all dressed in nice white shirts in those days, so refreshing. Excellent video and so many thanks for sharing ( I was 13 in 1956) Shared to my FB.😁

This popped up in my recs. I'm happy to find it. It didn't matter how small your house was back then when it was holiday time we'd pack them in and have the greatest time. Everyone was together and sharing the holiday. Good times. You have a lovely family. :)Thanks for sharing!

Back then people dressed up when they attended an event at a friend's or family member's house.

Schultz tall boy beers. Love it!

That's a good Christmas day if ever I saw one!

How wonderful to have this living time capsule of your family !

Great video, looks like fun times!

Boy. Did that bring back memories😺. Thanks for showing this. And , yes people, it really was like that❤️💚

Love it! Could have been my family. Love when so much family was around. Now people move away. Everyone dressed up. Many times the women wore Christmas corsages they got at the 5 & 10.

I am 90, I miss that time so much!

A family with a 16mm camera was rare. They were either pretty well off or seriously into photography and films. The footage looks so much better than the more common (and lower resolution) 8mm film.

@inkey2

Жыл бұрын

did they have Kodachrome back then.......the film is definitely not Kodachrome....too faded

I'm only here because I typed Christmas 1956.....my husband was born the next day

That little girl is destined to be Queen of the Hop! Looks like everyone had a good time!

Thank you Mike and Harriette for inviting us into your home...we had a great time...Merry Christmas!

Great clip.Brings back a lot of memories.

I was 3 months old on this Xmas. It was a good time to grow up. We have had a good life thanx to the greatest generation!

I needed this, thanks......

This is so wonderful. Thank you for sharing it with us. Love the song.

@tinaokasi494

Жыл бұрын

Wish I could have been there, There are no more of these Christmases, lucky the ppl who lived Then,🎄🎁

I miss the old days…..enjoyed🥰

Born in 1961. In Montreal. We’d re enact the nativity scene after Christmas Eve dinner the go to church and come home put cookies and milk out for Santa and apples and carrots for the reindeer. Good times.

Great video. I was 15 years old Xmas 1956..

@uslines

2 жыл бұрын

I was 16.

What a treasure this footage must be to the surviving members of this family… How awesome to be able to see your Grandpa & Grandma, your Mom & Dad having such a great time….

@clarysl18

7 ай бұрын

I think the same!!👍👍

yes beautiful times. I too was 3 months old that year. it also seems this was a Greek family . what beautiful times. people then new what life was all about.

@ilanamillion8942

2 жыл бұрын

I was just 1 month old. Love the video!

@mddemas

2 жыл бұрын

Yes Greek

@davidstaudohar6733

Жыл бұрын

How about the kids playing Ring around the Rosie pocket full of Posey ashes ashes we turn in the dust and We All Fall Down, I remember playing this game 🤣🤣🤣‼️

One of the most Beautiful, Wonderful videos I have ever seen...

@tinaokasi494

Жыл бұрын

Wish I had lived then, I might have been gone b4 the arrival of 5g generation Family then and now, *Stark Contrast *

Those GIANT Tim cans of Schlitz beer! Awesome!

Thank you so much for sharing this, my aunt and uncle, who just finished restoring my grandfathers home, hope to host a real Christmas like this one day. My cousins, and whoever else can come, will give it our best effort. As a family, we dressed up right up until the early 90s, and then it all just kind of stopped. When people die, traditions are lost, sometimes forever. Christmas just isn’t the same anymore.

what,s lost is gone and whats gone is forever,so thakfully we have films like this to remind us how it was,how we were as a family,films like this are treasurs that should be seen by school kids so they would have an idea of traditions and family life during the Holidays in the middle of the 20 th century was like- to realize how far we.ve come is staggeringly sad-what first strikes me is how we all dressed nicely to celebrate and come together,it is special (christmas) and we dressed for it.looks like a nice family i just wonder what happened to them thru the decades.Thanks for this film its wonderful and i won't lie makes me a little tearful.👍🇺🇸🌻🌲

We could call it the golden age of the modern era. The mankind was recovering from WW2, building each day a better world for everyone. People were exactly like this, nice, simple, elegant: no roughness, sanity.

Great memories of much better times!!

love these videos//so very nice thank you for sharing/

Love these types of videos. Thanks for sharing!

The little girl with the plaid jumper brings back memories.

The art deco In the 1950's was full of human imagination and creativity, 👍👍👍‼️

I KNEW they were Greek!!💃🏻🕺🏻 The dancing confirmed it. This was just like my family in 1956! Our children and grandchildren can only wonder!

wow thoses little kids are in the 70s and the older teens are in there 80s now

pretty fantastic!!!!

This is a beautiful thing! I really should upload my 8 MM films from Christmas back in 1964. These were the true American celebrations that are sort of gone now. Each year it gets worse with spend spend spend rather then why we celebrate!

Reminds me of happier times I miss having family Christmases together my family is mostly gone now I live far away from the ones alive

I hope they keep they forever To be able share these years from now Mnay are just a memory

Thanks for sharing Loved it back then! Everyone dressed up and actually visited eachother No phones or tvs blaring, we would sing carols and play games like sherades

I was 13yrs old & getting Lionel trains for Christmas.

Love how everybody dressed in their best clothes such a sign of respect for each other

Watching in 0,75x makes the frame rate looking better

That was a fun watch. Thanks for sharing.

Loved every minute of this!!! Thank you for sharing.

This was wonderful, great times. Where’s this family now?

Happy People!!! Great Memories!!!

Everyone's so happy! It makes you just want to be there celebrating with them!! 🎄

If only they knew what was coming

All you had to do back then was live, beautiful.

Everyone was happier back then.

Thank you.

I was 2 years old

When i was a kid the extended family would gather at my grandparents, starting Christmas eve. 30 people in the house. Went on until the day after Christmas.

I would have been about 7 weeks old! Great video!

Fabulous the year I was born

Fascinating video. Hello from Moscow.

I am watching this video on Christmas Eve of 2023

Thanks.

I wish we could go back intime.😞

I was 1 year old. Much better times! Much better.

I love this channel!!! Wish I had a wonderful family as this one… 💜

Today is awful. Just watch this video and tell me the good old days are not truly gone. Sadly they are.

@alanspagnolia9474

2 жыл бұрын

"good old days" ? Cars made of crap, 78 RPM records that broke in pieces and NO AIR CONDITIONING!!! I'll take today ANYDAY!

@WitchKing-Of-Angmar

2 жыл бұрын

@@alanspagnolia9474 Cars made of metal that lasted 5-20 years with little maintenance, records that were handled not by bumbling fools, plenty of air conditioning if you left your mountain house or southern drawn farm, and last but never least, families having an absolutely blast..highfiving included.

@alanspagnolia9474

2 жыл бұрын

@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar HA!! No "highfiving" here, Sir!! I meant what I said, and your arguments against them, are, extremely weak, at best !!

Either they had a large family, or they invited some of their neighbors over to open Christmas presents with them.

@mddemas

2 жыл бұрын

It was mostly family, but some friends too.

Watching someone else’s memories is like second hand nostalgia

Merry Christmas 2022

Tunes by Dean Martin, sets the mood right away. Very nice

I was born 13 days earlier. 😃 The best of times.

I was one month old at Christmas 1956.

I'm pretty sure I saw a high 5.

Lovely 🥰

I have this weird hypothesis that all "time" happened at once during the Big Bang. And if time were something that simply advances to the present moment and the past just disappeared, then these old films would not be possible to exist. If the past just vanished, how could it be possible to record it? I posit that time travel to the past is possible based on this feeling I have.

When America was great, unlike now.

Schlitz on the table

Magnum sized beers.👍

The Harriet name is in my family way back.Harriette is the French spelling.

The good old days. Before blondes were everywhere.

@alanspagnolia9474

2 жыл бұрын

Congrats, "jcc" STUPIDEST COMMENT OF THAT DAY !!

@mzwere1

2 жыл бұрын

I love brunettes, blondes and redheads but the there are some lovely dark haired ladies in this video for sure. Those classic styles are so flattering for the ladies. Theses fellows were truly lucky guys. 🙂 It is great to see everyone so properly dressed as well. 🙂

Good 'ole Dean Marin track.......

You can almost smell the Old Spice and mothballs

What s happen to mike and harriet?

With flood lights (Hot)

Are they iranian

@kostasveronis5882

2 жыл бұрын

Nope, Greeks

Holiday cool back 50and 6owith Family s

I bet one of those gals is named Gladys or Judy

“Schlitz”…..

Christmas?…I don’t think so. Not a single decoration, no tree, no presents.