When people wore PJs only at home! Real families, parents role models, good manners, warm family vibe and atmospheric Christmas! I wish i could go back to 60's for this exact life! Thank you for the video

@RedDevilMoto

8 ай бұрын

When families sat at the table together every night for supper, and watched tv together as a family. When parents taught their children right from wrong and weren't afraid to dicipline them if they needed it.

@Damone7653

7 ай бұрын

When women were naturally beautiful.

BACK IN THE DAYS WHEN YOU COULD SMOKE AT HOME AROUND THE FAMILY! AND NO ONE MINDED! LOVE IT!! I WAS 11. LOL!

@sonampalmo3578

7 ай бұрын

I loved the aroma of my Aunt's Oasis cigs.

@bigalexg

7 ай бұрын

No thanks! As much as I loved the era (I'm 68) I could have done without my aunt's unfiltered Pall Mall stench and my mom's constant stream of Winstons fouling MY air. It really is torture for most non-smokers. I can hardly believe we allowed smoking in public and around kids. Your right to smoke ends when you blow that toxic shit into my space. This is one area I'm damn glad we finally woke about.

I was born in 1951, this is so spot on in 1963..I received my two Beach Boy albums that year..Surfer Girl and Shut Down LP’s..I was a happy boy..

@KingOFuh

9 ай бұрын

You have good taste. My favorite band.

@bderrick4944

8 ай бұрын

The Beach Boys are geniuses

@toddbonin6926

7 ай бұрын

Ha! I got those same two albums for Christmas, but in 1977. I was an old soul.

@TerryM-eu5ou

7 ай бұрын

@@toddbonin6926 great albums! I had the chance to meet The Beach Boys in1994…their mom also, Audrey Wilson…Happy Thanksgiving, Todd…

@toddbonin6926

7 ай бұрын

@@TerryM-eu5ou Way cool!! Happy Thanksgiving Terry!

cant believe heaven could be any better than my xmas in the 60s and 70s

@tillypoepper8307

8 ай бұрын

Ich bin in der DDR aufgewachsen und bei uns hat sich das Weihnachtsfest genau so wie im Vidio abgespielt .Wir waren noch Mutter ,Vater ,Kinder und immer dabei unsere Oma .Eine wunder schöne Erinnerung an die ich gerne zurück denke .

I was ten years old in 63' and we had visited Gettysburg that summer....I awoke to find the 'Johnny Reb Cannon under our tree! Back then, we played 'guns' all day long! None of us grew up and 'killed' anyone, in fact we all grew up with a healthy respect for them. When my Mom passed away several years ago, we cleaned out my old boyhood home, and tucked away in the attic was that old cannon! It now sit's proudly on a hutch in my office! It's both a happy and sad reminder of days long passed! Merry Christmas and thank you for the memories!

@wolfmantiptip6218

Жыл бұрын

That cannon is worth money now, I wouldn't sell it though, that was one of the Best toys to get that year ........

@onejacket4603

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your story, I enjoyed it.

@healingandgrowth-infp4677

9 ай бұрын

Think my mum was 11 then too 😊

@mordecaiesther3591

8 ай бұрын

Life was so much better ❤

@jazzman1626

8 ай бұрын

I was 8 years old. We had the big freeze in the UK that year.

What wonderful warmth this video exudes, and what sweet, poignant memories they have evoked in me! Hair in curlers, coffee perking, fancy pajamas, folks smoking, relatives still alive, and so on. Thank you.

@petraelpunkt9720

8 ай бұрын

🤩

I want to hug my Mom and Dad. I have tears in my eyes, because we've gotten older ourselves.😢❤

Look how pretty that tree was. So unique they were all different but pretty. What a beautiful time too bad we cannot go back and these children cannot experience that part of life I was just a little girl. But I remember it was so peaceful everything about it

@Greaseslinger

Жыл бұрын

Thank You

@mehchocolate1257

Жыл бұрын

@@Greaseslinger your lucky i wasn't even around in the 1960's

@petersilecchio4417

Жыл бұрын

Yes Love the Christmas Tree. Love the old type lights and ornaments.

@mehchocolate1257

Жыл бұрын

@@petersilecchio4417 ur mom is a Christmas ornament😂😂😂😂

@zuzuspetals9281

Жыл бұрын

I was 😮8 that year. These kids got so many things they didn’t seem quite excited with anything. My parents didn’t have much money, we’d get one large gift and a few small practical ones. Life has gone back to that recently and no one seems to know how to handle that concept. I miss those times.

I was 6, that's when Christmas meant something and we appreciated what we got. Thanks 😊 😊 😊 😊 😊 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

@laurae7594

Жыл бұрын

I was 7, I feel the same things, sorry. 🇪🇸

@leakoe3797

Жыл бұрын

Diana Rogers So very true Kids nowdays don't seem to appreciate anything they seem to take alot for granted

@michaelbrabant5326

8 ай бұрын

So true , this was Christmas, looking at Christmas catalogs and bending the pages you want for Xmas 😊

@dianerogers8805

8 ай бұрын

@@michaelbrabant5326 Our grandchild do that now 🤗🤗🤗

I was 9 years old back then. Christmas was fun back then, it's not fun anymore.

@trixier6505

Жыл бұрын

I hear you.

You brought such happy memories for me sharing your home movie . Thank you . 63’ we had moved from Germany back to US ( military ) . Dad got Stationed in Ohio outside Columbus. That was my first Christmas in the United States , I was born /raised in Germany. Christmas Eve mom made a ham for dinner, we went to late mass ,came home opened 1 gift, and went to bed so Santa would come. Dad opened up the curtains to see the falling snow covering the yard in white, the lights on the tree, and the glow of dads cigarette (lol) .. off to bed. Years later Dad was killed in Vietnam, mom of cancer, a sister in a car accident , brother to drugs .. but what stays happy in my heart is that Christmas 1963 America 🇺🇸. Cherish family and memories you make . God Bless

@trixier6505

Жыл бұрын

Very tender memories you have and treasure. It's a happy place in my heart that I go to every year. So many loved ones are gone.Now my sister and I are the old folks. Seems like a dream, those Christmases do,

@timacoata7456

Жыл бұрын

@@trixier6505 ❤️

@Bbtwink

Жыл бұрын

I’m so sorry for your losses

@shyphyre

7 ай бұрын

How long was your family stationed at Ohio. My dad got stationed there the following year when I was a few months old.

You can almost smell that beautiful fresh cut Christmas tree. The best Christmas tree lights are STILL the C9 multi colored lights, those STILL do it for me every time and ALWAYS will.

Christmas ' were the best during Camelot , although this one belies the national sadness that came a month previous.

This was so sweet. Memories galore. And the kitty surveying all the empty boxes: "All these scratchy-things for ME?"

I love watching old videos of families because the natural order is so messed up now.

@lynnzucco5049

8 ай бұрын

I like watching them too. I was born in the wrong era.

I just had my home movie's transferred to DVD. Growing up in 60's and 70's... Christmas, Catskill Mountain vacations, Halloween party, New Year's eve party, Easter, New York City World's fair and birthday parties... Thanks Mom and Dad for such a wonderful childhood.

I was six months old when this was filmed,I was only thinking the other day I wish I’d kept the family Christmas decorations, today’s are nowhere near as good, they bring back so many amazing memories.

@jazzman1626

8 ай бұрын

I loved the way we decorated the living room back then. The twisted crepe paper diagonally across the ceiling. Bell decorations that started off looking like cardboard boots until you brought the card ends round to meet and it was a lovely coloured bell shape. You could hardly see the ceiling for the decorations. They went out of fashion in the 1980s. The house looked lovelier and the coal fire was so cozy. No climate liars to tell you you can’t heat your house any other way except the way they want you to, forcing you to buy their energy at vastly inflated prices. Why can’t people see that no government really cares about our health or safety. It’s ALL for control and profit.

I loved the vac-u-form, one of my favorite toys ever!

the car the little girl got was the Barbie Austin Healy.

@Greaseslinger

Жыл бұрын

thankyou for your input

I remember getting my Vacuform on Christmas Morning. You can still find them on e bay. Thank You for Sharing. If we could only go back to those days😢.I was 6 then.

i love the rollers in the hair.....and the dustpan as a gift to MOM. I was 10 in '63....it was fun, Kenner toys, a new bike, dolls.....RemCo toys...a toy washing machine with clothesline....

Wow, thanks for the memories. I was five, looked like the little girl. I have an older brother and we had a black and white cat too! Our grandma was also with us too. Lots of nostalgia.

Our Air Force family was stationed in Germany at the time. I went to a German school, and they got out for Christmas on December 6. My best present was a set of legos encased in a beautiful compartmented wooden box with latches on the front and two layers of different compartments. I was 11 at the time, and the snowfall, chocolate ornaments, and sweet treats made everything so magical.

Yes, wonderful memories. I was 4 in 63. Wish we could have those times again.

First off thanks for this wonderful Christmas movie u share ,l was born 1964 and l for some odd fate reason became the holder of our family pass pictures and 8mm movie’s, l lost my oldest brother this few months ago and oldest sister 1965 from horrible fire l was only one yr old. But at the age of 16 l gravitated toward film making and hav been working w it still to this day. But when my mom passed l felt strongly it necessary to preserve our family pictures and home movies ,lve been working on our family photos that date back into the late 1800’s and w today’s new technologies lve been sharing it w the other family members

@Greaseslinger

Жыл бұрын

Thank You

I love this! Christmas of '63, I would have been 1 1/2 years old. Reminicesent of my own childhood. There were four of us children, our Christmas's would have looked very similar to this. A magical time to be alive, indeed!

I was 6 years old at Christmas of '63 and my sister was almost 2yo. I got a farm set from Sears that Christmas. The barn was all metal and came with a lot of farm animals and farm equipment made of plastic. I still have it in my attic now. I am sure I also got socks and underwear from my grandparents that Christmas. I think that is all the ever bought me for Christmas and my birthday. This also had to be a very sad Christmas for my parents. My little brother, then 3yo, had died just two days before Christmas the year before. I want to say this was a simpler and good time in 1963. But just remember that President Kennedy had been assassinated just a month before. We were just starting to get involved in the Vietnam war and segregation was still rampant in a lot of the US.

@rotunda57

Жыл бұрын

I'm the same age as you Mike, and I had that same metal barn with the metal tabs that bent to hold it together. And I remember the day the president was shot also. Life is short.

@conniekaye5633

8 ай бұрын

Medgar Evers was murdered in front of his wife and kids 😢

"Oh boy! A dustpan!!" Hahaha!

Anyone else notice her saying "You remembered!" at 0:49 ? It's so cute.

@Greaseslinger

Жыл бұрын

No I did not thank you

1963 was My first Christmas EVER! Thank you for sharing!

@smartysmarty1714

8 ай бұрын

Mine too, born in July of that year!

@zofiapatulska4824

8 ай бұрын

@@smartysmarty1714mine too! I was born May28😊 greeting from POLAND😘

@desertwolf3818

7 ай бұрын

Mine too, so long ago

WONDERFUL 👏 AND MAGNIFICENT MEMORIES

I was five and such great times they were. My folks and relatives still alive. I sure miss it. ❤️

I long for 1963.

Thank you for posting this. Missing my Mother so much........❤

When holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving were a special time for families .No black Fridays ,no non stop sports on tv

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I was 5 years old, and all I remember was my Christmas was in BLACK AND WHITE, we didn't have COLOR yet! 🤣

I was just six (November 9) in 1963 but I remember the Christmases of my childhood like they were yesterday.

What a nice 'snapshot' of an American Christmas celebration, early 1960s style! I was thinking, that was literally a month after the JFK assassination. I was 9 that Christmas. The other thing I personally recall, that was the year my dad bought one of those aluminum Christmas trees, that were the rage back then. At first, it was tough warming up to a tree that wasn't green, and that you couldn't hang regular lights on it. Over the 11 Christmases we put it up, I grew fond of it, and the "color wheel" spotlight.

@p.foster28

7 ай бұрын

Same exact thing in my family. We went from fresh cut green trees to the year my Dad thought an aluminum tree was the thing to have. All red ball ornaments and, of course, the color wheel. My brother and I hated it. My Mom didn't really like it but she went along with it because of Dad and also, she was just that sweet. However, she did miss the smell of the traditional tree so she when she went to the grocery store, she would stop at the Christmas tree lot out in the parking lot and pick up a few small discarded tree branches. She then brought them home and shoved them under the sofa so we could have some genuine Christmas tree scent. Eventually, my parents went back to a regular tree. But I sometimes wish I had that old aluminum tree ( & color wheel); they're worth a lot in the vintage shops today.

I was 4 1/2 months old The wrapping paper is stunning

This is so beautiful.. thank you for sharing.. greetings from Greece! 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

@vanyakouveli3113

8 ай бұрын

Yasu from America

Very nice. Lovely family 👍

That was a lot of presents for 1963. Ours were never under the tree. Mum and dad used to place a pillow case with our presents in on the bottom of our bed while we were sleeping. It was a wonderful feeling waking up and feeling them with your feet and hearing the wrapping paper crumpling.

Sooo fun to see this! My siblings and I WISH we had home movies from our childhoods!

Love these beautiful memories of Christmas and childhood ❤So less Stressful back then,.Love family memories

I wasn’t even born in 63 and I love this!

WOW. What was it with the tall Chianti bottles in the 60's? We had one that stood on our Fireplace. I never understood how they poured the wine. My Dad used to tell us that you drank from the long bottle by sitting back, putting it between your feet, lifting it and tilt it back to drink. Whether that was true or not, those tall Chianti bottles were common. What a window to a past part of our lives. We also have a very similar picture of us kids just like the opening picture in our PJ's in front of the tree. Memories........

This was so lovely! Thank you for sharing.

I don't know how I found this video. I love it. My dream was always to grow up in the 60's This is cute. The mother looks like my mom too. Thanks for sharing. ❤️😊👋

When boys were boys, girls were girls, and common sense was still alive. I miss those times!

@quantumrobin4627

Жыл бұрын

We still have that, certain news sites will tell you different, but we’re free to choose to live in fear of harmless things we don’t yet understand, if we choose🤷🏻

@aunch3

Жыл бұрын

Yea and then the Boomers “grew up” and ruined everything

@AlexYounger

Жыл бұрын

@@aunch3 The worst generation… Boomers.

@AlexYounger

Жыл бұрын

Alex Brunault Yes! Women got a robe and a fancy dustpan for Christmas, Grandma smoke a pack of menthols a day, and shut the heck up!

@smpeace2683

8 ай бұрын

@@aunch3 How did the boomers ruin everything?

how wonderfull to see these videos, memories❤ , thank you so much for posting them

Very generous Christmas🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️

Love it! Thank you for posting!❤❤❤

Merry Christmas to all

Thank you for this wonderful video of a time gone by.....l was 4 years old at the time of this filming and im sure l was filled with the wonderment of it all....l sure do miss the old tinsel on the Christmas tree.

I was four years old then. They were great days! I remember them well. Beautiful family here.

I was born in 69. I love to watch old home videos. Thanks for posting.

Grandma in her hair rollers....love it!....😂

@lynnzucco5049

8 ай бұрын

And smoking😄

What a wonderful time to be a child. Love the Christmas cards on the door was one of my favorite parts of Christmas miss it.

Everyone says that kids today get too many presents but I think it's the other way around, all the 'Christmas Past' videos show tons of loot under the tree!

@hdgboy

Жыл бұрын

The only difference is that one present today can cost hundreds of dollars ie. cellphone or video games.

Thanks. I loved Christmas during the 60's up untill the mid 70's. I miss those days, the decorations, the toys. I still put up a tree and have turkey, but not too much gift giving anymore.

1963 was a good year. My parents had been married for two years.

We went every year to my aunts house for Christmas Eve The most exciting exhilarating experience My uncle played Santa with my aunt lowering the presents out an upstairs bedroom window Down to my uncle, We never knew, I thought those those times and people would be there forever So I try to make the holidays as great as when I was a kid And they are nice But they are not the same. Happy Holidays to,All

This is beautiful, thanks for sharing it. I was born in 1963. Nice legges Dad,cute!

What....No present for the Cat??? 😿😿

@trixier6505

Жыл бұрын

Kittie played with the paper, ribbon, and boxes!

Wow!! What a coincidence, a few days ago I posted Pics of Christmas 1963 on my FB page. I was almost 3 and I Got a cool pedal wheel flashy race car design. Best Christmas ever.

I got a VACUFORM that very same Christmas! Had a lot of fun with it and boy was it ever dangerous! 😂

Yes Christmas was special. I was not around until 1972 but since we were poor I did not know Christmas until the Foster Home in 1977 and learned about Mary giving birth to Jesus....the next year I was adopted and was surprised about Christmas again and Jesus....and I asked my adopted mother, "Was Mary going to have a girl this year?" It still gets told and laughed about even today....we used to open our presents one at a time so we could see and enjoy what someone got....and we wrote thank you letters to everyone who gave us a gift....I can still see myself at our kitchen table, while it was snowing outside and Christmas tunes on the stereo....writing those Thank You letters.....

It's the colours these shades dont exist anymore ❤ The time the effort the joy ❤

Wish I could go back. Your parents relied your aunts and uncles got together. We're alive. Such a great time

Larry, looks like you guys had a great Christmas! Nice video and thank you for sharing!!! Golden Dustpan!

@Greaseslinger

Жыл бұрын

Not my family it's a home movie from an estate sale

@tmcge3325

Жыл бұрын

@@Greaseslinger Sadly, I have seen these estate sales where the people selling everything never call the children and ask if they want these memories of family long ago. thanks Larry and Merry Christmas.

@Greaseslinger

Жыл бұрын

I have very little info on these family's if a bonified family member asks i will be glad to take it down

@tmcge3325

Жыл бұрын

@@Greaseslinger Your a Good Man Larry!

@reneeprasil6153

9 ай бұрын

@@Greaseslinger I would think they, too, would be tickled at seeing these memories! Reading the comments with others' memories is precious, too.

Dig those matching PJs. 😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤

¡Cuántos buenos recuerdos de mi infancia. que yo nunca olvidaré ! How many fond memories of my childhood. I'll never forget . I'm 67 old Saludos desde Salamanca (España) y Feliz navidad para todos. = Greetings from Salamanca (Spain ) and Happy Christmas everyone Monday, December 12- 22

That's a really good looking righteous family and a prosperous happy American 👪 family

What a wonderful video !

precomputer era

I have something funny to share, one year my wife did not put names on any of the gifts.....we usually have 30 people at the house and everybody gets a gift. You guessed it....she only knew the gifts to our inner family but distant relatives and friends, she was clueless. Had a Great Christmas that year!

A real nice family enjoying Christmas morning. And to think they lost their president only a month earlier !

Cool car at 00:33. Tux cat @ 03:49 wonders what everyone is doing and thinking, "Didn't they do this about this time last year?" I hope Kitty got a present.

Being only a month old in 1963 when this was filmed it’s is a wonderful tribute to your family thank you for sharing ❤️Merry Christmas 🎄🎁.

My dad was in Air Force and Vietnam. Lots of times he was gone , miss my dad 😢

I remember the tinsel on the trees back then being made of aluminum. Like so many other things now, cheep plastic! Plus I remember squinting because those movie lights were so bright. Now we video with phones. 😂

I don’t remember that one, I was just 5 months old & my husband was just over 1 month old.

These kids are now in their late 70's in 2023.

better days

I got a rock...

@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305

Жыл бұрын

Pet rocks were a thing a real present lol

@bibledoctor7623

Жыл бұрын

@@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 Not until the '70s, I believe. I was born the year this video was made.

We never did that wake up and open presents kind of thing, it was an entire family event, aunts, uncles, cousins would all come over, we'd have a huge dinner, adults at one table, kids at the small table, food all over the place, a fire in the fireplace, and we'd open the presents at night, there would be a Santa, usually an adult, sometimes a cousin, and they'd hand out presents one at a time, you'd open the card, read it out loud, open the present, say thank you, and they'd hand out the next present, and so on and so on.

that barbie car sells for 100 dallers on ebay

I graduated in 1961 married at 19 amd my son was born in 1964.. Christmas was wonderful back then and my son loved his Christmass growing up.

I celebrated my first Christmas in 1963 😊

Once upon a time, in a once great nation.... I remember Christmas of 1963. I was a boy living in Bossier City, La. It started snowing on Christmas Eve night, and we awakened to a white Christmas. It was the only white Christmas I've ever experienced. I also remember it as a time with some sadness. It was just over a month since President John F. Kennedy had been murdered in Dallas, Tx. Christmas of 1964 found my family and I living in Dallas, having moved there from Bossier City back in the summer. On Christmas Eve of 1964, the mercury in Dallas hit 99.F.

THAT'S THE YEAR I WAS BORN!! Such clear footage. my dad took TONS and I mean tons of home movies back in the 60 and 70s and they look nowhere near as good as this.

@mildred3513

Жыл бұрын

Same here, I was a 1963 baby. Just 7 months old when this was filmed. We unfortunately had no film equipment, so it's lovely to be able to see what Christmas was like that year. Many happy memories of Christmases later on in my childhood, the excitement and innocence of it all. Glad to find another 1963 girl, wishing you a happy birthday this year as we reach the 60 age milestone. 😁👍

@AnnLippert1

Жыл бұрын

@@mildred3513 Yep this July is the big Six-Oh

1963. My first Christmas in Beautiful Laguna Beach CA 🌊🐬🧜‼️❤️

The mother Oh!!! just what i wanted a June cleaver dress

I was born the next day in this year.

I was 7 in '63. We had a new house and l had just started school. Good times.

Nice tree. Nice Family. Nice decorations. And, interestingly, it was just 33 days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy & 46 days before The Beatles first appearance on TV, The Ed Sullivan Show.

Mom gets a plain housedress... and she is thrilled.

I wish they had shown more of the toy car the little girl opened. If I'm not mistaken, that was a Barbie Corvette in the 1962-63 style. I had one exactly like it.

LOL at (handsome!) Dad showing his leg, and Mom's JOY with her cute little cosmetic suitcase.

@slim-oneslim8014

8 ай бұрын

She didn't look too thrilled about her new dust pan! 😂😅

Weihnachten in Hamburg war zo schön und einfach