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.
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.😁
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.
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.
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 🤣🤣🤣‼️
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!
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….
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.
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.
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.
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.👍🇺🇸🌻🌲
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.
@@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.
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
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!
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 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. 🙂
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.
Happy faces, happy people, simple times....great times...great childhood memories!
America was so much better back then. Today this country is a disgrace.
reflections from a country thats finished.
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.
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.
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.
@@greyghostscsa394 I agree
I agree!
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
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.😁
Love home videos like this. Thanks for sharing 😍
I was 8 that year. Now I am 74. Those were golden days.
Wow the baby in the film is nearly 70 if still alive! Amazing to view the past in its glory
Back then people dressed up when they attended an event at a friend's or family member's house.
How wonderful to have this living time capsule of your family !
Schultz tall boy beers. Love it!
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.
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.
I was just 1 month old. Love the video!
Yes Greek
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 🤣🤣🤣‼️
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!
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!
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….
I think the same!!👍👍
Great video, looks like fun times!
That's a good Christmas day if ever I saw one!
Thank you Mike and Harriette for inviting us into your home...we had a great time...Merry Christmas!
I miss the old days…..enjoyed🥰
I am 90, I miss that time so much!
Great clip.Brings back a lot of memories.
That little girl is destined to be Queen of the Hop! Looks like everyone had a good time!
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.
did they have Kodachrome back then.......the film is definitely not Kodachrome....too faded
Great video. I was 15 years old Xmas 1956..
I was 16.
One of the most Beautiful, Wonderful videos I have ever seen...
Wish I had lived then,
I might have been gone b4
the arrival of 5g generation
Family then and now,
*Stark Contrast *
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.
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.
I needed this, thanks......
Those GIANT Tim cans of Schlitz beer!
Awesome!
love these videos//so very nice thank you for sharing/
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.👍🇺🇸🌻🌲
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.
Boy. Did that bring back memories😺. Thanks for showing this. And , yes people, it really was like that❤️💚
Love these types of videos. Thanks for sharing!
The art deco In the 1950's was full of human imagination and creativity, 👍👍👍‼️
pretty fantastic!!!!
I'm only here because I typed Christmas 1956.....my husband was born the next day
I KNEW they were Greek!!💃🏻🕺🏻
The dancing confirmed it.
This was just like my family in 1956! Our children and grandchildren can only wonder!
The little girl with the plaid jumper brings back memories.
Great memories of much better times!!
wow thoses little kids are in the 70s and the older teens are in there 80s now
I was 13yrs old & getting Lionel trains for Christmas.
That was a fun watch. Thanks for sharing.
If only they knew what was coming
Everyone was happier back then.
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
Today is awful. Just watch this video and tell me the good old days are not truly gone. Sadly they are.
"good old days" ? Cars made of crap, 78 RPM records that broke in pieces and NO AIR CONDITIONING!!! I'll take today ANYDAY!
@@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.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar HA!! No "highfiving" here, Sir!! I meant what I said, and your arguments against them, are, extremely weak, at best !!
Loved every minute of this!!! Thank you for sharing.
I was 2 years old
Love how everybody dressed in their best clothes such a sign of respect for each other
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
Watching in 0,75x makes the frame rate looking better
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!
Thank you.
I hope they keep they forever To be able share these years from now Mnay are just a memory
Everyone's so happy! It makes you just want to be there celebrating with them!! 🎄
This was wonderful, great times. Where’s this family now?
Fabulous the year I was born
All you had to do back then was live, beautiful.
Happy People!!! Great Memories!!!
I would have been about 7 weeks old! Great video!
I wish we could go back intime.😞
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.
Fascinating video.
Hello from Moscow.
When America was great, unlike now.
Thanks.
The good old days. Before blondes were everywhere.
Congrats, "jcc" STUPIDEST COMMENT OF THAT DAY !!
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. 🙂
I love this channel!!! Wish I had a wonderful family as this one… 💜
Either they had a large family, or they invited some of their neighbors over to open Christmas presents with them.
It was mostly family, but some friends too.
I am watching this video on Christmas Eve of 2023
You can almost smell the Old Spice and mothballs
I was 1 year old. Much better times! Much better.
Merry Christmas 2022
I'm pretty sure I saw a high 5.
Schlitz on the table
Magnum sized beers.👍
I was one month old at Christmas 1956.
Watching someone else’s memories is like second hand nostalgia
Tunes by Dean Martin, sets the mood right away. Very nice
I was born 13 days earlier. 😃 The best of times.
Lovely 🥰
The Harriet name is in my family way back.Harriette is the French spelling.
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.
Good 'ole Dean Marin track.......
With flood lights (Hot)
What s happen to mike and harriet?
Christmas?…I don’t think so. Not a single decoration, no tree, no presents.
Are they iranian
Nope, Greeks
I bet one of those gals is named Gladys or Judy
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“Schlitz”…..