I bet these people would have never imagined that 50 years later tens of thousands of people would be watching them opening gifts in their living room!

@LarryRood

Жыл бұрын

You're right about that.

How the world has changed. Missing those times.

1 wish I could go home again.and be with everyone I loved

@JamesSmith-gn9ou

Жыл бұрын

Same here. Time marches on and before you know it, many of our precious loved ones are gone. I find great solace in the videos of this era and photos of my family and friends especially from around the holidays. Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you and yours.

@kathyandersen8243

Жыл бұрын

I don't like the world we live in now.their was a simpler time and place. Neighbors were friends. People use to sit on porch or under shade tree. To visit. Kids explored ,there was always danger not like now.,many blessings to the folks reading this.🐦🌈

The sweet life. The mom was so happy when she got the silver coffee pot. I grew up in the '70s. My sister had that red haired Chrissy doll and I had Velvet (she had blonde hair). The hair pulled out of their heads to make it longer.

@mabella3437

2 жыл бұрын

yes i always wanted a Chrissy doll however ask for the DAWN Doll for Christmas instead.

@lisaorth3255

2 жыл бұрын

@@mabella3437 I still have my Velvet doll. About the only thing that I hung on to from childhood. We had the Dawn dolls too! Were they the little miniature dolls?

@joancavanaugh965

2 жыл бұрын

I still have my Dawn Dolls and preferred them to Barbie,.

@teresahooks3746

2 жыл бұрын

my sister and I shared our chrissy doll. I was seven at Christmas 1971 and my sister was ten. it was a great time to grow up.

@emilamoralesleon5432

Жыл бұрын

👔💵💵💵

Where did it all go......to have it back for just 5 minutes.... a 70's child myself. Those were the days my friend!

My parents passed away this year dad 1/15/22 & mom 7/22/22 Christmas will never be the same.

@mariarooney6262

Жыл бұрын

So sorry for your loss.

@janismacolley2395

Жыл бұрын

Sorry for your loss but you'll always have your memories!!

So warm and cosy. I was born in 1961 so would have been 10 at the time of this home movie. I feel so lucky to have enjoyed the innocence of the 1960’s and early 1970’s as a younger child where everything felt so safe and society was so much more polite. Then came the 1970’s, with all the great music and changing fashions and hairstyles. Things were just not the same from about the mid 1980’s onwards. ☹️ I do not like the world of today. What a shame! Unfortunately, nothing stays the same forever.

Wonderful! In these sad and scary times, this video is what I need for my reality check. I was 21 in 1971 and these pictures took me home again. Love and family values. Thank you!

@kathleenrobertson67

6 ай бұрын

I 😂was 18, just graduated from St AgnesbAcademy😊😢

@dougboyko4008

2 күн бұрын

I was 21 also

Molto bello complimenti tempi passati che non tornano più ❤

In 1971 I was 13. This is such a lovely reminder of simpler, more peaceful times. Thank you very much for sharing.

@markaxelson5940

Жыл бұрын

I was 6. Agreed!

@ieattofu68

Жыл бұрын

I'm sure the parents had their heartaches and struggles. They just did their best to keep you happy and innocent. I hope my son looks back on his Gen Z childhood and thinks of it as a "simpler time".

@sharonh2991

Жыл бұрын

Ten years old for me and I think six for my little sister. Our grandparents were always around, either at our house or we were at theirs. They only lived about a mile or so away. My grandparents died in mid 1990s and early 2000s but I still think about them almost every single day.

@markaxelson5940

Жыл бұрын

@@sharonh2991 Had that in common with you. Lost one in '90 and the last in yr 2000. Together for every birthday and major holiday.

@Og-Judy

Жыл бұрын

I was 18. Things were still so nice back then.

lol. A great tribute to 1971. These video's cannot be replaced or duplicated. One of a kind. THANK YOU.

@LarryRood

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! Larry

This reminds me of my home as a child during the late 60's/early 70's. My mom also loved all the "Colonial Williamsburg" furniture and decor, especially that apple tree! Each year, I'd see her pull out that wooden thing and make her masterpiece. RIP mom.

@bryanspindle4455

5 ай бұрын

Same here. We lived near Williamsburg and always went there at Christmas. time.

Seeing theses makes me happy, but also sad, I've never had that experience of a Christmas with a wife & kids, or with close friends. My Christmas's are spent alone. I feel envenoms of those who are lucky to spend a Christmas like this.

@swannoir7949

Жыл бұрын

I understand

PERFECT!!! It brought me such PEACE and a warm fuzzy feeling within!!! Secured safe warm happy feelings!! depressed and anxiety people should watch this often what a GREAT cure or at the least to survive another day!!! GOD bless you for sharing this treasure!! She was so HAPPY opening the silver adorable tea pot!!!!

@LarryRood

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your very kind comment.

@anaisdossantosbarroso6793sghh

Жыл бұрын

Zad

@patrickryan1515

Жыл бұрын

Your recommendation is exactly what I prescribed for a somewhat disillusioned employee of an investment firm with which I deal. He liked the idea very much. I recommended it as a (form of) meditation, as I find it to be.

@amym1106

6 ай бұрын

Yes, the mom really loved the teapot! I did, too.

WOW IT WOULD BE GREAT TO GO BACK TO THOSE DAYS GREAT MEMORIES. THANKS FOR SHARING

Oh my!!! The opening of the Chrissy Doll!!! Brought back such wonderful memories!

@LannieLord

10 ай бұрын

what happened to the box ?

@amym1106

6 ай бұрын

My sister had Crissy but I don’t remember that dress. I had Velvet.

A military family. Thanks to you all for your sacrifices...

@daniellap.stewart6839

9 ай бұрын

What sacrifices? Killing people for the status quo is not a sacrifice so Shut THUp

I was 7 in 1971 . Love these videos!

A beautiful family and 100% perfection . The true spirit of Christmas.

I miss family holidays together everyone looks so happy here reminds me of happier times

I was born in 71. Thank you for the lovely memories ❤

@uriel1622

2 жыл бұрын

Y yo tengo 50 años y todos me dicen que tengo 38 maximo 40 siempre me cuide en la comida no fume casi no tome licor de bes en cuando no exagere en el sexo y aquí estoy con una apariencia bastante joven gracias a la vida 🙌💕👍

@seanavp

Жыл бұрын

*July 13, 1971.*

@stephendacey8761

Жыл бұрын

@@seanavp cancer

@seanavp

Жыл бұрын

@@stephendacey8761 *Yes - Correct!*

Seriously needed to see this today. Music was perfect and life was kinder, gentler and sweeter.

I was born in 75. Christmas was so magical back in those days. The family always gathered at my grandparents, I sure do miss them.

made me remember the best moments of my life.

I find myself watching these nostalgic videos more and more these days. I really wish things didn’t get so twisted as they are now and we could go back to the basic family values and common sense.

Please get me a time I definitely want to go back to thse lovely times ❤

@LarryRood

8 ай бұрын

Christmas 1971.

I was 7 and i can remember that xmas. 💟💟💟

This is back in the day when the company was the most important! Sharing and caring! Well done Mr. Rood.

So lovely! Glad to know the Rood parents are still with us! Thank you so very much for posting this little slice of heaven.

This video was done very well, and I love the music in the background that lent itself to the holiday. Season on the video! Thank you for having us available on KZread.❣️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@LarryRood

5 ай бұрын

Thank you Vickie. Larry

I love the Centrepiece made of apples & pineapple! So beautiful! Never saw that done before

@samanthab1923

Жыл бұрын

Della Robbia wreathes or decorations made with fruit. I saw it in Colonial Williamsburg as a girl.

@amym1106

6 ай бұрын

Me either but I looked on Google. Very interesting.

@bryanspindle4455

5 ай бұрын

It was a traditional colonial decoration. The pineapple was expensive and was used as a sign of hospitality. It is sometimes made with lemons instead of apples. I live near Williamsburg and the whole restored area is decorated every Christmas with live fruit and greenery.

Wow..I was 7 & this brought tears to my eyes❤

I love this!!! Beautiful times. Thank you for posting.

@LarryRood

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you too!

Thank you for sharing this video and serving. I'm honorably discharged US Army veteran and was born on November 29 1963. Your wonderful video that I saw appear on my KZread front page takes me back to the 1970s when life was much simpler. I have moved back to the area in Texas where I was born and lived until 1980. I ride my road bicycles past the house I lived in as a kid, my grandmother's, aunt's and uncle's, uncle's and cousins' houses. It causes my mind to travel back in time to the 1960s and 1970s with my parents and brothers, my local relatives and close friends plus different life events. I'd love to go back for at least a little while. You have a great looking family there.

The picture quality is amazing to me! Then there's mom writing a check and dad shoving the tree in the trunk. Yes, the really good ole days.

@LarryRood

Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

What a loving family! TFS! That apple centerpiece is stunning! Such a glorious light coming from the people in this film! ✨❤️✨💚✨🎄🙏🕊️

Wright-Patterson AFB! I grew up in Marietta, on the other side of the state. At Christmas, 1971, I was halfway through my freshman year in college. A great time. Thank you!

@LarryRood

Жыл бұрын

I'm from down river in Gallipolis.

I’m 58 years old and I loved watching your video….my sister and I often talk about the 70’s and how we feel blessed to have grown up during those times, we have a truck load of great memories and watching your video reminded me of how great we had it…. My dad also filmed many home movies when we were growing up, this July he passed away at the age of 91 this will be our first Christmas without him, but all our great memories will help us get through it and watching our old videos will bring a smile to our faces as your video did today… thank you for sharing 😊

@DurkPreston

Жыл бұрын

word

This woman certainly knows her way around a Kitchen! A more simpler time. I miss that sooooooo MUCH!!!! Thank-You for uploading this!!!!

@LarryRood

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment. "This woman" is laughing right now:)

Life go's by so fast. Looks alot like ny old Christmas's 56yr ago!

I loved the 1970s this bought back happy memories so much so it bought a tear to my eyes 😢❤thank you for sharing 💖

@LarryRood

9 ай бұрын

Thank you.

Love the apple/pineapple centerpiece. Awesome. Thanks for sharing

@hcombs0104

Жыл бұрын

That had me interested, too. I never saw that before.

@bryanspindle4455

5 ай бұрын

It is a traditional colonial decoration. Sometimes made with lemons instead of apples. Pineapples were rare and expensive in those days and used as a sign of hospitality. Colonial Williamsburg decorates the entire restored area with live fruit and greenery every Christmas. There are KZread videos showing it.

I was 1. I don’t remember that Christmas, but I remember the one when I was three. Our three flat in Niles Illinois. Just outside of Chicago. I used to sit at the picture window and watch the cars go by. I remember how nice it was to feel warm and happy while it snowed and the wind blew. The Christmas tree was lit up and time life’s Christmas record was playing.

This is great I was 12 in 71-very cool

@LarryRood

6 ай бұрын

Thanks, you're a youngster:)

@Janster59

6 ай бұрын

thanx! @@LarryRood

Chrissy was a great gift. My little sis got her & Velvet, the blond. I love the centerpiece 🍎

Love it, I grew up in the late 60s and early 70s, first thing I noticed was the good ole checkbook, rarely seen these days!! Oh to go back for just a minute!!! Thank you!!

In 1971 I was only 3, but in the late 70's I so remember that god awful strands of tinsel that got everywhere!!! It really was a more magical time because kids just didn't get every toy they wanted thru the year, so when it came time for Santa, it was special opening that toy that we wanted for so long. My family opened gifts Christmas Eve for some reason, and I would remember sitting in church for the xmas eve service just thinking about the gifts awaiting me. But mom and dad would make sure that there was a special gifts waiting for me and my older sisters xmas morning.

I wish Chirstmas could be like that again. Brings back so many good memories. Nowadays Christmas just any fun anymore. Thankyou for the beautiful vedios.

Un verdadero y maravilloso recuerdo familiar!! Qué hermoso tesoro!!!❤❤

Love this lady's sense of order. Even MONK would approve. Nice, nice family. And the lovingness of the dad made him all the more handsome.

Thank you for sharing. I grew up in the seventies and would love to see home movies of my childhood. This was amazing to watch.

I was a young teenager. Then and people were so different than? They are now and I'm in my sixties now. Everyone dressed up for Christmas people just hung lights under bushes and windows. A didn't matter that was crooked and you always had a big Dinner and getting the perfect Christmas tree which by the way that tree was perfect And it was a scotch pint. You. Go to the places now to buy trees and they're all short needles. I missed those days thank you for sharing

Mr Rood, I cam across this home video of Christmas a few days ago and I love it! I love Christmas and especially past family home movies. I grew up very poor and a lot of times we didn't have money for much of anything and this makes me fell better when I watch it. I also love the Christmas center piece of the apples and the pineapple! I really want to try it myself this Christmas and when I do I will be thinking of your family. Thank you!

Beautiful memories! Thank you for sharing.

Thank you so much for sharing ! ❤

Such a sweet family ❤️

@LarryRood

Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Wonderful family movies! I was 6 (born in '65) in 1971 and have no memories of this year, but I remember the the 1970's as a fun decade. Thank you for sharing these.

@rossrubino9080

Жыл бұрын

I was born in 1965. I remember being 6 year's old and in first grade

The car brings back memories

Thank you for sharing this .. I was born Jan 1971, my parents did not have a video camera back then. This is beautiful. Merry Christmas 2022 to all of you .

What a beautiful centerpiece that she created out of fruit and foliage.

@LarryRood

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Isabella. It is based upon traditional Christmas decorations as made in Williamsburg, VA.

@isabellavalencia8026

2 жыл бұрын

@@LarryRood how cool!!! I love traditions like that, thanks for sharing

Wow!!! Thank you Mr. Rood and Family, for sharing your wonderful movie video! I love the fact you show a lot too, from buying the tree, to decorating it *(LOVE the strung popcorn, we did that too!!!)* and the outside of your home, and even the dinner! I was 8 that Christmas, and remember it well! Your Family movie reflects *everything* I remember about Christmas back then, THANK YOU!!!! I'm 59 now, and life did not turn out like I EVER imagined it would (It's my fault, mostly), so these old movies HELP people like me!!! :) ...

@LarryRood

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mike, really appreciate you rcomments. That was a truly great time for me and my family also. All the best to you, and remember...you're young!

@jj-eo7bj

2 жыл бұрын

How did your life turn out I was 4 when this came out in 1971 ? Mine was pretty good held on to the old ways best as I could stated family late first born I was 35 home paid off life was good 35:acre hobby farm ,,then divorced 5 yrs later ,,,retired now from a auto company back to work for a yr or 2 just closed on a expensive retirement home with a beach on a river looking forward to grandkids someday,,,,

Looks like a nice, loving family, and the music was tops... charmed, some of the best, memories.

That looked like a great Christmas 🎄

@LarryRood

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, it was!

Larry, thanks so much for sharing these wonderful memories of the family and this most special time of the year. Hope you and the family are doing well.

@LarryRood

Ай бұрын

Thanks James, we are all fine, getting older:) Larry

I remember the Christmas of 1971 as one of the best ever. Thank you for sharing your lovely family! 😊

@samanthab1923

Жыл бұрын

I had to think back but I think 71 was pretty good. Bumber Pool table & Knock Hockey!

The furniture and chandelier looks like my house did around that year. We never had a tree that pretty and full though. That's a really awesome video!!! Makes me wanna pull out the super 8 film and projector. But you know that's a lot of work....and I'd probably cry a lot seeing family members long gone. It's easier to see other people's families.

Oh my gosh. Thanks so much for posting this. I grew up in Miamisburg so we are almost neighbors! I could feel the excitement and anticipation with the decorating going on. It seems we have lost that family time these days. I so long for the days when life was like this. Getting a little melancholy in my old age. 🫤

Back then I was 20 yrs.old, life was much easier and simple, thank you for the memories of a happy ,naive world, I miss it very much.

Geez... this really takes me back. Seems like, back then... Christmas & the time surrounding it actually meant something. I was your average lower-income kid. I didn't have much, but I never went without. Always got something kinda close to what I was hoping for. Christmas tv specials were KING (for me). And if you missed them... you waited a whole year to see them again (You didn't miss them.). Loved the music, and today... they're all considered golden-oldies. We never had an artificial tree. The smell of it was intoxicating. We always had the BIG bulbs, plain chromed-colored ornaments, and tinsel. And even though we didn't get a lot... it was just the time of the year that, when you looked out of a window... the snow completed it. Man... I really miss those days. Being a kid back then was really special. I really consider myself lucky to have been a part of it. The memories are priceless.

Thank you for this, just thank you.

This is Christmas in July in my Apt right now. I am playing all the old 40s and 50s. Christmas music for the whole month of July. My American Flyer trains will run as well! I have the same set in like new condition with all the boxes and set box too!

Your wife loved the Williamsburg Pewter teapot!! So nice to see this...brought back memories with me being 70!!

@LarryRood

Жыл бұрын

You're young, very young:)

I was just six (6) but now you can’t keep me from this Christmas. My whole family love Christmas ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🎄🌲🎄🌲

I miss the days that are left behind us 😞

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH. You're so awesome for sharing your home videos. What a beautiful family. I love the centerpiece on table with apples and pineapple. I got very emotional . Have a beautiful day.

Aaaaah the good ol days ☺️ lovely 🥰

1971 was my first Christmas as I was born on July 28 of that year.

Wonderful year

I was 10 in '71. All but the last 5 days of it. According to this, I was almost 11. Those were the days.

My first christmas, i was 7 months old that year

kudos to mom that tree and table settings was perfect

I love the 70's

What a sweet video. I was raised in the 70s and 80s and it was such a simpler time.

I always wanted permanent joy and satisfaction for Christmas and I never got it. I was a greedy kid.

I made it almost to the end before the tears started to fall. I had Chrissy also. I actually still have her and she is going grey right along with me. (Subsequently, my hair is down to the backs of my knees...lol ) Wonderful moment in time preserved.

Family really cherish that time the little girl even like the jump rope kids today would throw it aside .So sad how family's are today and children .

Your video put a huge smile on my face. Thank you.

@LarryRood

Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

I was 9 in 1971 and I got Chrissy that year too! What a beautiful memory you just shared with us all. Brought back my own memories and how wonderful life really was back then as a child

Such a beautiful family sharing the joy of Christmas. Thanks for these precious memories. Loved your Manger under the tree.

@LarryRood

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Michael. Larry

I love a good teapot myself.

This is some amazing archival (cherished memories) stuff; from either: 8 mm, Super 8 mm or 16 mm film (?). it couldn't be from a bulky VHS/Beta(Max) camcorder. Thank You for your Service....

@LarryRood

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Shot with Bauer C2 (might have been C3) Super 8mm movie camera, scanned as 1080p by ScanCafe, then processed by Topaz (TVAI) as, 3820x2160, edited in Filmora and uploaded to KZread as 1080p.

I wasn't born til 85 but this video makes me long for simpler times

very enjoyable.Brings back memories of the Golden years!Missing my beloved family.Merry Christmas in Sept.

Very nice! My sister worked most of her career in fashion at Wright-Patterson AFB.

Ahhh yes. Back when mom didn't mind getting a griddle or sweeper for xmas.

I was 8 months old during the Christmas of 1971. My birth father, who I never knew, was in Vietnam, getting addicted to Heroin, after living through a rocket attack and seeing his colleagues and friends blown apart. I had been adopted by a really good family and lived in Dale City, Virginia. My Dad worked at the Pentagon, and we had a great life. The pictures my family took back then look very similar. Makes me nostalgic - it really is a wonderful life!

Wow these are the Christmas’s I remember.

Thank you for digitizing the home film ! We also celebrated a similar holiday, only a little later on December 31 - January 1. There were also gifts under the tree... The most remarkable thing about the filming of those years was that people were genuinely happy with simple gifts. Now everything is much more complicated...

@LarryRood

Жыл бұрын

And thank you.

@swannoir7949

Жыл бұрын

I was think the same thing about the gifts.

What fun! Love mom's apple/pineapple centerpiece. And your sis got a Crissy doll!

Absolutely beautiful ❤