"Nostalgic Baby Boomer Christmas Tree Decorating | 1950s & 1960s Holiday Magic!
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Step into the heartwarming world of baby boomer Christmases with our latest video! 🎄✨ Join us as we recreate the enchanting tree decorations of the 1950s and 1960s, embracing the unique charm of asymmetrical trees, bubble lights, and big hot C9 bulbs. Dive into the memories with a kaleidoscope of Christmas balls in assorted colors and the iconic tinsel strands, giving the tree a magical icy look. 🌟
This journey through time, captures the essence of a bygone era when families gathered around, creating holiday masterpieces filled with love and laughter. 🎁❤️ Don't miss this nostalgic trip down memory lane, exploring the traditions that defined Christmas for the baby boomer generation.
Watch, reminisce, and share the joy of vintage Christmas tree magic! 📽️✨ #VintageTreeJoy
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Joe , I’m 60 yrs old and boy oh boy did you make me feel young again!!! Nothing today beats the beautiful memories we had as a young child. That tree is just amazing and you re-created it perfectly! Thank you for bringing back our child hood memories! Those were some of the best times in my life!
So glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for stopping by!!!
Oh the memories! The bubble lights-the big C-9's and shiny bright ornaments were always on our tree and the best part was throwing the tinsel on the tree for the big finish! This year I have a photo on my tree of my parents standing in front of their tree that looks very similar to yours! Those trees were magical!
Sounds wonderful..ahh, the memories
Joe, I was born in 1950 so I am a true baby boomer. What I remember most about our Christmas trees was how wonderful they smelled-especially when those hot light bulbs warmed up the foliage. My mother always unplugged them before we went to bed at night for safety. Thank you for the memory.
Beautiful memories
This brings back memories as a child. I'm a Baby Boomer. So beautiful.
Good evening Joe! I love it ! I was born 71 as I got older in the 70tys I still had grandparents that decorated there tree just like that ! I even remember throwing tinsel on are tree ! I even thought about doing that this year ! I love the rocking horse! I wonder next year for Christmas if you could to a whole theme based on that style of decorating! That would awsome ! Have a great evening 😀!!!!
Star was always on top of our tree. Nativity under tree. Not put up until Christmas Eve. Tinsel put on tree by my Mother one strand at a time .Made christmas morning magical.
Yes it did!!
Such Happy Times🎅🏼🤶🏻🎄🦌TY
My mother always said, one strand at a time! 😊 Thanks for the memories…
Oh my! The SECOND I saw your finished tree my eyes welled up with tears! Thank you, again, for the precious memories ❤️
Glad you enjoyed it!
What a lovely trip down memory lane😊 the tree is beautiful Joe. Your home should be featured in a magazine ❤
Thank you. I wrote to the local news station but no interest.
Thanks for the memories. We had that tree. I have pictures to prove it. You always make me smile. Today you made me cry.
I hear you loud and clear..me too...
Back then my mother always decorated a beautiful tree always different than others she had a gift for this ❤1955 on 😢miss her 💔
Wonderful memories
Absolutely beautiful. My dad and brother cut our tree from the woods. Usually a cedar or a white pine. I do remember a long leafed white pine one year. My mom took the little seed pods from our sycamore trees and covered in aluminum foil to hand on the tree one year. We had the C-bulbs and glass ornaments. We would add paper chains sometimes. I remember having some Santa ornaments. We cover it in tensile. We used what they called vintage paper now. Sometimes we used the gold or red foil paper to wrap gifts too.
Wow such wonderful memories!!
We had bubble lights. Home made ornaments and tons icicles. My aunt had those C7 bulbs with the reflectors. Oh yes, 1 strand at a time.
I got tears in my eyes when I saw this tree… I actually do a traditional 1950s tree every other year and switch off from my flocked Christmas tree. I use the bubble lights the big bulbs the tinsel the star on top. This just opened the floodgates of my memories. Thank you so much. I laughed out loud for real when you said you could hear your mother saying one piece at a time because my mother used to say it too lol. there’s nothing that gives you the warm, fuzzy feeling then a tree of this kind. Thanks Joe!
Beautiful memories of Christmas past and our childhood.
This is surely a trip down memory lane ❤️
🎄❤️ Big lights, shiny Christmas balls and so much tinsel it took forever putting it on strand by strand! For me, they’ll always be the best Christmas trees ever! This video touched my heart and brought back the feeling of so many beautiful Christmases. I love this video so much. Thank you, Joe. 💚🎄
L❤️VE!!! L❤️VE!!! L❤️VE!!!
I’m a boomer and do still decorate with a lot of vintage items. I’m very blessed to have my parent’s Shiny Brite ornaments in their boxes and the first angel tree topper they bought in 1950-the year they were married. They are priceless to me. Your tree is spot on. I’m so happy to see how you brought our past back to life. How very dear and precious are those memories.
Everything about the season was so special-getting stacks of Christmas cards in the mail, making jam cakes and fruitcakes, shaking the packages with the DO NOT OPEN seals and yes…watching the bubble lights and tinsel make the entire living room sparkle. Makes my heart so full…thanks!!!
Beautiful memories!
These pictures remind me of my grandparents tree’s. ❤❤ Lovely memories.
This is why I love your channel! There is something for everyone!!!
I loved your nostalgia tree. I was born in the 50s and l remember how all the trees were the same colored glass balls, some Shiny Brites , and if you were really lucky some bubble lights . The train under the tree along with cardboard houses . We would watch ( probably for hours ) that train go round and round … just a train on the tracks 😅
Thanks for the memories 💚❤️💚
Yes I still have those cardboard houses!!
Exactly the kind of tree I grew up with! It's amazing how Christmas décor has evolved over the years but there's just something special about the baby boomer Christmas tree.❤
I agree!
Oh my gosh, Joe you brought back so many memories. One year my mom just said to my sister and I , just through the tinsel on ! And oh boy we did. Thank you for your introduction to this cause the younger ones don’t know what you talk about. Such great treasures you have, the blanket and the horse really gets my heart. What a great presentation . I love every little creation you do.
Merry Christmas to you Joe and your lovely wife.🎄❤️
Thank you Merry Christmas!
love your grandmother’s tree topper 🎄🎄🎄🎄and your blankie !!
Lol thank you
Joe, this is a thrilling goosebumps memory of my Dad's 1955 Christmas day. I remember this tree in Grandma's living room every Christmas! Gorgeous!
Wonderful!! Great memories!!!!!
Yep! That was the Christmas tree back in the day. My family never had the bubble lights but we had balls of all colors and sizes and TONS of tinsel - the good kind that they stopped selling because it contained lead. We saved as much tinsel as we could each year and we stopped putting tinsel on the tree once we no longer had enough remaining to make a statement. Remember how the weight of the old kind made it hang straight down and really shimmer?
Yes I remember. The stuff I used was flying all over the place and sticking to the wall too..ugh!!!! Ahh, the memories
Wow the memories, one strand at a time, that comment made me smile ……and remember….thank you Joe my favorite tree!
Glad you enjoyed it
Joe, this so reminded me of the tree we had as a child, I can just seek my sister (3) and I (7) jumping to help put on the icicles ! What wonder and cherished memories!!! Great job Joe!!!❤
Glad it brought back nice memories
So cute👍🏻🌲I put tinsel on my br tree👍🏻love the pony
That took me way back In the days. It so special those days and we appreciated everything we got. I really miss those days. Thanks for sharing
Well said!
Love the memories from my childhood.We were so excited to get the tree up and throw the tinsel on❤😅
Lol yes!
Absolutely love bubble lights - thanks for this video!
So nice to have the memories. I remember the tinsel, piece by piece. Pretty tree.
WOW.. I'm a Boomer and I surely do remember the tinsel,C9 bulbs and when a strand went out it was seek and find. That was fun, Joe. Thanks for the 50s memories. Looking fwd to home tour.
Glad you enjoyed it
Joe, so reminiscent of the trees from my childhood.
All of your trees have been outstanding but this nostalgia tree is my favorite because it brings back so many great memories
We also had the big lights, the bubble lights, the shiny brites, the tinsel as well as some ornaments that we made in school. I can't believe you still have that blanket and the horse!
Yup all of it. I know, how do I still have my blanket! Lol
How I hated putting tinsel on the tree😂. We didn’t have the bubble lights, but my aunt had them on her tree. Thanks for the memories💕🎄
Our family had the tinsel on the tree, and my mom would tell us the same thing..one strand at a time. That stupid tinsel created static and it was on the cat, and all of us kids. My mom would get mad having to cut it off the vacuum rollers. I’m glad those days are gone.
Lol..I just experienced that now. The tree is upstairs and I'm finding tinsel downstairs and even in the garage, lol
Glad tidings, MaryAnn & Joe. All of your creations are glorious, but my all time favorite in the master bedroom was your Peacock Christmas Tree--stunning!!!
It's great that you have so many happy memories from your childhood. Yes, I do too and yes I'm a babyboomer. The horse is beautiful. Is that picture on the wall a picture of Mary Ann in her wedding dress??? Do you and Mary Ann have children and grandchildren? They would love to come to Grandma's and Grandpa's house. Thanks Joe for sharing how to recreate our childhood Christmas Tree, awesome as always.
Brings back very warm memories..thank you 🥲❤️
I'm a late boomer/early gen x, so I was raised with a lot of baby boomer traditions, including the Christmas trees at my grandparents' houses. My parents had the silver aluminum tree, so it was symmetrical, but all the same ornaments. I still have that tree. I also have the first ornaments that my maternal grandmother bought in 1940 and used every year until the last Christmas before she passed away. I want to use them, but they're so beautiful and fragile, I'm afraid to. They're such a family treasure and I would be devastated if a cat decided to cop an attitude and smack them. I love all my fur babies dearly, but they sure do limit my decor options lol
Thank you so much for the wonderful memories! Since I don't have any grandparents or parents remaining here on earth, memories are more precious than ever!
I agree totally but keeping things hidden isn't always good either but I'm with you. I keep thinking when I'm gone whoever is going to throw this stuff away so I might as well enjoy it.
Oh my goodness you took me back to my childhood! I’ve been so tempted to use tinsel again, but then I remember what a mess it is to work with. 😂 You really nailed the look. Thanks so much for making this video! 😊🎄
Lol yes it's crazy messy!!!
Thanks for the memories.My tree still carries the theme ❤❤🎄
GREAT idea! Love the nostalgia!!
Unbelievable… The memories… !!
This so gives me. Hills as I totally remember these trees
Best part of your 2023 holiday decorating!!
I love this!! I’m all about retro and vintage Christmas! I’m madly collecting Shiny Brites.
Love the tree Joe. I am a baby boomer and remember all these 50's &60's ornaments, tinsel and we had the bubbly lights, too. Thank you, Joe. Had a hard time finding this video on my T.V. many rows down from your channel. I comment on my phone and found it there.
Thank you. UA-cam is playing g games with my channel
Thanks for sharing. I got tears. Such wonderful memories. GB!
Glad you enjoyed it
OMG Joe, we had that exact topper 😁. And growing up we had a real tree and my mother would decorate it on Christmas Eve. And put the tinsel on one strand at a time lol 😂. I do remember one year having a silver tree and the color wheel that slowly turned 😊. Thanks, your tree is beautiful!!🎄😉
Oh Joe you nailed it. Thanks for the memories. Lost my mom this year so this triggers more memories. I even found some tinsel in one of my boxes. Love what you do, thank you for sharing ❤
So sorry for your loss...
Joe, so beautiful and boy this Christmas Tree really brings back memories and thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it
My Dad always brought home a very fat and tall tree. Every year my Mom would say "it's too big, it's not going to fit!" lol! I LOVED the bubble lights. Your tree is so prefect, it's right out of the 50's and 60's. I want to do one like it next year. I love how you did the red lights first for the extra glow. My Mom made lots of the sequin ornaments in the 60's and we had a tree topper like the one you have. We always had lots of tinsel, till we got a cat who would eat it every year. 🙀 I love your horse and your blanket. It's great that you have these things from your childhood. Thanks for sharing and for this idea!! ❤🎄
Oh boy tinsel and a cat don't mix well lol..thanks so much, I'm so happy you enjoyed tge video and members.
Such lovely memories for you, i had a green artificial tree with different ornaments with presents under the tree, i am an only one, so always quiet , but special ❤😊
What a great video! This is actually the type of Christmas tree that I prefer. I just find them more charming and feel like they say Christmas. Of course, I grew up with the large bulbs, glass balls, and lots of tinsel, just like you have done here. This was really an inspired idea for a video Joe. Thanks!
Thank you very much I'm so glad you enjoyed it
My mama had the colored lights and the bubbles lights on the tree which were my favorite. We had tinsel and the glass bulbs with and home made star sometimes and other times we had the pointed thing on the top. Brought back a lot of memories today. Thanks Mary Ann and Joe. Pat in North Carolina
Yes we share all those memories
Hi Joe, I'm catching up with the videos. I was born in the fifties and this tree brings back memories. The big lights and tinsel. Those were the days.
Yes they were!
Thanks for the memories Joe! Beautiful. Outdoor love to see you recreate a feather tree.
Thanks for recreating a priceless memory from my childhood.
I appreciate all the time and work you put into each of your creations and videos.
Glad you enjoy it!
Thanks Joe, it’s perfect. That’s just how I remember.
Love this! We always had a real tree with the big hot bulbs. We used tinsel, too!
Loved those trees mum used the c9 lights and every year one needed to be replaced but they was magical so was the Christmas tinsel.
You nailed it Joe! Love the icicle tinsel
Thank You guys for a very wonderful childhood memory ❤
My nostalgic Christmas tree was the silver ones with the revolving electric spinner that changed the tree’s color.
Guess what I have one in my attic lol
The Christmas tree that I remember when I was growing up my father. Would go find holly trees keep them Trimmed
So they would look like Christmas trees. When Nike got bigger, there was always loaded. Big red berries Only Christmas tree I ever remember.
And I was beautiful.
And that's our tree
Wow that sounds awesome! What a great idea!!!
❤️❤️👍🇨🇦🙋🏼♀️🙋🏼♀️🙋🏼♀️🙋🏼♀️yes very sixty’s…..u are just so talented …..love ur tree 🌲
Looks just like my grandma's tree! She was just like your mom one tinsil strand at a time 😊. Love it!
Great job🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉looks amazing
OMG Joe, my mother always told us to put one tinsel at a time on the tree, ❤and we, like you, at the end would just throw a handful at a time.
Lol exactly!!
Great memories ❤️ Looks beautiful ❤️😊
Thanks so much
I love that tree, Joe. Reminds me so much of the time when I was growing up. I had to chuckle because my dad would always say, regarding the icicles, put them on one at a time. 😊 Thank you for recreating this nostalgic tree for us. ❤
I guess we all got the same instructions lolol
That was great. I’m 5 years old again! Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
I remember the tinsel tree with the rotating light. I bought a tinsel tree last year and found some tinsel for it. Hoping to find the colour wheel eventually! Had one but it disappeared. Anyway love love your tree and especially the horse and blanket! Wonderful memories!
I remember the tinsel & the ornaments that you can look at which made your face look funny and the big bulb lights. Also, we had a silver tree with a rotating color wheel.
Lol yes how true!
Love it! And love your Santa valance.
You have good eyes!
You just brought back beautiful memories. Great job on recreating!
Thank you! 😊
Joe, I’m just in aw at how you have so many amazing items that you have kept over the years. It’s just so personal, nostalgic, memorable and sweet. The price we pay now days to create this very look. I love it! And that little horse…no words❤ just drop the mic already 😊😉
We did hold on to many personal items I think partly because no one else wanted them..thank God
It’s beautiful!!
So Nostalgic 😊 My Grams had this tree every year! I took pictures of it! I might do this next year with my bedroom tree. I have the classic gold star with tinsel and lights from the 70’s I could use as a topper because my apartment ceilings are low but oh the 2024 ideas already😂. Merry Christmas to you both Ciao Bella!
Grazie!!! Planning planning!!! Lol
Crazy how yesterday I was thinking about this style of tree. I love it. 😊 I remember my Dad put a metal train under the tree. My brothers and I loved it so much. My father also put tinsel but my mother hated it 😂. Merry Christmas Joseph 🎄🎁⛄
Merry Christmas
I absolutely love it🎄
Wonderful! Such memories! My mother loved turquoise so we always had the big blue lights, except for one that was house-shaped. Baubles galore, but no tinsel. :( I still use blue lights on our tree! We have bubble lights, too - in blue, of course. And when my son was born 37 years ago, my sister gave us several strings of the C9 lights in blue for the outside of our house. We still use those strings today - we have to routinely replace bulbs, but the strings themselves have lasted all these years. Fabulous, Joe! Hi to MaryAnn!
Oh, and we had that same tree-topper! And lots of clippie birds (from Germany) and angel hair ornaments which I still have, and elves made in Japan were on my childhood tree, and I still have them!
It's amazing how long things last if you take care of them. Such wonderful memories..Merry Christmas!!!
I love this tree🎄💕🎄
Tinsel is the veil and life of the tree…Joe it’s beautiful!! My favorite one! Just a FYI TJ and Hugs sell shiny bright replicas
Tj maxx?
After cat to tell you merry christmas and god bless you both love you from the bottom of my heart.
Thank you Merry Christmas!
That's our Christmas tree this year. I have accumulated a collection of Shiny Brite ornaments and did a whole tree of them.
Wow great!!!!
Looks so good
We had a silver tree with the color wheel. Then we had a fake green tree because my mom would sneeze with a real one lol. Blessings to the both of you.
Lol yes lots of allergies and I have a silver one in my attic!
@@LifeWithMaryAnnJoe Bring it out next year. I'm sure you can find a spot.
Love it!
I'm not a boomer kid, but my parents were, so they had a lot of this stuff. Grandparents aunt and uncles did too. Then the things from when I was little in the seventies came along, which was the decade of everything dangerous and hazardous😂
My goodness, those C9 bulbs! I remember in Queens as a kid, we had to hang them on the railings closest to the house only because people would pass by and unscrew and steal them! Then all the arguing about NEVER putting them on the tree, especially if it were a real one, because they would get too hot and could cause a fire. Gosh. Do you remember the string of lights with the little outter plastic cup that made them look like little flowers? Then the thumb tacks. Holy Toledo! My father was the accountant and would be sure of how many my mother planned to use to hang the lights in the window. We had wall to wall carpeting so if one, or heaven forbid two were to fall, he would jump up and tell us all to freeze in our tracks until they were located. Then he would regale us with the story of how his grandfather stepped on one, developed gangrene, and of course amputation was the result. Ahh, the memories😅
The only tinsel allowed in our house were these cute little tinsel balls my mother bought in the City. They could be used year after year and you could just throw them anywhere on the tree and they would stick. They came in green, red, silver, and gold. Leave it to my mom to find a neat, cool, and original way to decorate with tinsel😂😂 I think the only time we ever touched traditional tinsel was when our dad brought a box home. Our mom went bananas. We were covered in it😂😂 the tree wasn't even up yet!!😅 Thanks for the memories once again, Joe😊 You know I love you guys for all of this and more❤❤ Xoxoxoxo
Lol I loved reading your comment and it's all 100 percent correct. Ah what great memories!!!
Boy, this brought back memories. 1955 baby here. xoxTXDeb
We had that point in red too
Thank you
I don’t remember the trees except in pictures . I am 67. The tree I remember is the silver aluminum tree with the color wheel.
Fun!!