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.
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.🐦🌈
@@kathyandersen8243 Many many blessings to you too.❤ This video could have been my sister and I in the sixties - I wish we could turn the clock back ❤❤
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!
@@LarryRoodbeen watching MANY home videos all the way from 1937 all the way through too very early 1980s. Even today ..... The vids of the homes etc don't look far too different today if you ignore the tech like phones etc. Id love to know the earliest we celebrated xmas via a tree with electric lights and the unwrapping presents etc... Kind of feels like if everyone in said uploaded videos spoke to each other, there experiences of xmas would be very similar. Only today does times change. Example :- we hung onto many old items and so say tech of yesterday, yet we freely now throw things away or don't value items as much... Maybe because at xmas in 1938 we received about 4 presents, presents that were high quality but nothing innovative (aka socks or whatever) but by the 80s many households single occupants each received dozens of gifts - most deemed disposable after a period or non-maintenance, just discard and replace etc. Can't describe it. I just noticed the quality of paint on a childs tricycle was of many layers of bright paint for the seat (sure it probably had lead in it to give such a rich colour but...) - when looking at the 1980s equivalent, the seat was cheap molded plastic with no paint... Thus had a disposable quality about it. Imagine a world today with our tech, but things built as well and as solid back in the day... This really should of been! Why was it not? I really worry about the future of everything today... Its a sad situation everything is in.
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.
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 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?
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.
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!
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".
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.
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.
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.
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!!!!
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.
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 🙌💕👍
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 UA-cam 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.
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 😊
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.
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 UA-cam videos showing it.
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!!! :) ...
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,,,,
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.
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!
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.
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!!
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 .
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. 🫤
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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....
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 UA-cam as 1080p.
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 UA-cam.❣️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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
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...
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.
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!
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.
I was 4 years old that Christmas What a beautiful and excellent video Exceptional quality for its time. What a beautiful tree you chose !!! Thank you for sharing this Time Machine. Take me back MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOURS 🎄🔔❄️
What memories! I was 9 in 1971 and this is what I remember very well. My grandmother made that apple & pineapple centerpiece every year and let me “help”. Now I have to make one this year. What fun!
What a beautiful, happy family! I grew up in the 60s and 70s, then served in the Air Force in the 80s. This video really hits home for me. I miss those days. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks. The centerpiece is a traditional Colonial Williamsburg Christmas decoration, an Internet search will yield directions on how to make. Mustard at your grocery store:)
How the world has changed. Missing those times.
1 wish I could go home again.and be with everyone I loved
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.
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.🐦🌈
@@kathyandersen8243 Many many blessings to you too.❤ This video could have been my sister and I in the sixties - I wish we could turn the clock back ❤❤
Where did it all go......to have it back for just 5 minutes.... a 70's child myself. Those were the days my friend!
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!
You're right about that.
@@LarryRoodbeen watching MANY home videos all the way from 1937 all the way through too very early 1980s.
Even today
..... The vids of the homes etc don't look far too different today if you ignore the tech like phones etc.
Id love to know the earliest we celebrated xmas via a tree with electric lights and the unwrapping presents etc...
Kind of feels like if everyone in said uploaded videos spoke to each other, there experiences of xmas would be very similar.
Only today does times change. Example :- we hung onto many old items and so say tech of yesterday, yet we freely now throw things away or don't value items as much... Maybe because at xmas in 1938 we received about 4 presents, presents that were high quality but nothing innovative (aka socks or whatever) but by the 80s many households single occupants each received dozens of gifts - most deemed disposable after a period or non-maintenance, just discard and replace etc.
Can't describe it. I just noticed the quality of paint on a childs tricycle was of many layers of bright paint for the seat (sure it probably had lead in it to give such a rich colour but...) - when looking at the 1980s equivalent, the seat was cheap molded plastic with no paint...
Thus had a disposable quality about it.
Imagine a world today with our tech, but things built as well and as solid back in the day...
This really should of been! Why was it not?
I really worry about the future of everything today... Its a sad situation everything is in.
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.
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.
yes i always wanted a Chrissy doll however ask for the DAWN Doll for Christmas instead.
@@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?
I still have my Dawn Dolls and preferred them to Barbie,.
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.
👔💵💵💵
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.
Same here. We lived near Williamsburg and always went there at Christmas. time.
My parents passed away this year dad 1/15/22 & mom 7/22/22 Christmas will never be the same.
So sorry for your loss.
Sorry for your loss but you'll always have your memories!!
No it's not
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!
I 😂was 18, just graduated from St AgnesbAcademy😊😢
I was 21 also
In 1971 I was 13. This is such a lovely reminder of simpler, more peaceful times. Thank you very much for sharing.
I was 6. Agreed!
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".
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.
@@sharonh2991 Had that in common with you. Lost one in '90 and the last in yr 2000. Together for every birthday and major holiday.
I was 18. Things were still so nice back then.
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.
I understand
God Bless you❤ I can only send good feelings to you 👍🏼
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.
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!!!!
Thank you for your very kind comment.
Zad
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.
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
I was born in 71. Thank you for the lovely memories ❤
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 🙌💕👍
*July 13, 1971.*
@@seanavp cancer
@@stephendacey8761 *Yes - Correct!*
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.
Oh my!!! The opening of the Chrissy Doll!!! Brought back such wonderful memories!
what happened to the box ?
My sister had Crissy but I don’t remember that dress. I had Velvet.
A beautiful family and 100% perfection . The true spirit of Christmas.
A military family. Thanks to you all for your sacrifices...
What sacrifices? Killing people for the status quo is not a sacrifice so Shut THUp
I miss family holidays together everyone looks so happy here reminds me of happier times
This is back in the day when the company was the most important! Sharing and caring! Well done Mr. Rood.
Seriously needed to see this today. Music was perfect and life was kinder, gentler and sweeter.
A better time when family was everything.
Thanks Jeff, you're right on.
So lovely! Glad to know the Rood parents are still with us! Thank you so very much for posting this little slice of heaven.
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 UA-cam 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.
I love this!!! Beautiful times. Thank you for posting.
Thank you too!
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 😊
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I love the Centrepiece made of apples & pineapple! So beautiful! Never saw that done before
Della Robbia wreathes or decorations made with fruit. I saw it in Colonial Williamsburg as a girl.
Me either but I looked on Google. Very interesting.
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.
I loved the 1970s this bought back happy memories so much so it bought a tear to my eyes 😢❤thank you for sharing 💖
Thank you.
I was 7 and i can remember that xmas. 💟💟💟
Love the apple/pineapple centerpiece. Awesome. Thanks for sharing
That had me interested, too. I never saw that before.
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 UA-cam videos showing it.
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.
Thank you.
Greetings from liverpool uk.
Thankyou for sharing your families christmas.
This is great I was 12 in 71-very cool
Thanks, you're a youngster:)
thanx!
@@LarryRood
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.
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!!! :)
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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!
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,,,,
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.
Beautiful memories! Thank you for sharing.
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.
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!
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.
I love a good teapot myself.
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!!
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 .
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. 🫤
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.
I was born in 1965. I remember being 6 year's old and in first grade
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.
I remember the Christmas of 1971 as one of the best ever. Thank you for sharing your lovely family! 😊
I had to think back but I think 71 was pretty good. Bumber Pool table & Knock Hockey!
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.
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.
Un verdadero y maravilloso recuerdo familiar!! Qué hermoso tesoro!!!❤❤
Please get me a time I definitely want to go back to thse lovely times ❤
Christmas 1971.
What a beautiful centerpiece that she created out of fruit and foliage.
Thank you Isabella. It is based upon traditional Christmas decorations as made in Williamsburg, VA.
@@LarryRood how cool!!! I love traditions like that, thanks for sharing
I love the 70's
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.
Life go's by so fast. Looks alot like ny old Christmas's 56yr ago!
What a lovely happy mummy.
Very true!
Looks like a nice, loving family, and the music was tops... charmed, some of the best, memories.
C'était joliment décoré. Très beau.❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you.
What a sweet video. I was raised in the 70s and 80s and it was such a simpler time.
Your wife loved the Williamsburg Pewter teapot!! So nice
to see this...brought back memories with me being 70!!
You're young, very young:)
I was 7 in 1971 . Love these videos!
That looked like a great Christmas 🎄
Thank you, it was!
This woman certainly knows her way around a Kitchen! A more simpler time. I miss that sooooooo MUCH!!!! Thank-You for uploading this!!!!
Thanks for your comment. "This woman" is laughing right now:)
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 .
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!
I'm from down river in Gallipolis.
Aaaaah the good ol days ☺️ lovely 🥰
I was just six (6) but now you can’t keep me from this Christmas. My whole family love Christmas ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🎄🌲🎄🌲
Thank you so much for sharing ! ❤
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....
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 UA-cam as 1080p.
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 UA-cam.❣️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you Vickie. Larry
kudos to mom that tree and table settings was perfect
Such a beautiful family sharing the joy of Christmas. Thanks for these precious memories. Loved your Manger under the tree.
Thank you Michael. Larry
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
What a loving family! TFS! That apple centerpiece is stunning! Such a glorious light coming from the people in this film! ✨❤️✨💚✨🎄🙏🕊️
Thank you for this, just thank you.
lol. A great tribute to 1971. These video's cannot be replaced or duplicated. One of a kind. THANK YOU.
Thank you! Larry
Such a sweet family ❤️
Thank you.
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...
And thank you.
I was think the same thing about the gifts.
Wow these are the Christmas’s I remember.
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.
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!
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.
Thanks James, we are all fine, getting older:) Larry
I was 4 years old that Christmas
What a beautiful and excellent video
Exceptional quality for its time.
What a beautiful tree you chose !!!
Thank you for sharing this
Time Machine. Take me back
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOURS 🎄🔔❄️
What memories! I was 9 in 1971 and this is what I remember very well. My grandmother made that apple & pineapple centerpiece every year and let me “help”. Now I have to make one this year. What fun!
The apple cone was straight from Williamsburg.
Your video put a huge smile on my face. Thank you.
Thank you.
What fun! Love mom's apple/pineapple centerpiece. And your sis got a Crissy doll!
made me remember the best moments of my life.
Just love your videos. You have a beautiful family and such great memories through the years. Reminds me of when i was a kid.
Omg! I got a Chrissy doll for Christmas too lol. I still have her in my cedar chest sans knee high boots. What a great video!
very enjoyable.Brings back memories of the Golden years!Missing my beloved family.Merry Christmas in Sept.
Absolutely beautiful ❤
I was 11 years old in 1971. Such a beautiful video. Thank you for sharing your family with us.
Thank you.
Very nice! My sister worked most of her career in fashion at Wright-Patterson AFB.
Wow..I was 7 & this brought tears to my eyes❤
I loved this. I grew up on or around Air Force bases so the plane flying over was just like I remembered. Thank you!
What a beautiful, happy family! I grew up in the 60s and 70s, then served in the Air Force in the 80s. This video really hits home for me. I miss those days. Thanks for sharing.
I love that centerpiece, I’ve never seen one like it before and I was 16 in 1971. The jar of Grey Poupon made me laugh. This was a fun video.
Thanks. The centerpiece is a traditional Colonial Williamsburg Christmas decoration, an Internet search will yield directions on how to make. Mustard at your grocery store:)
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.
What a lovely family! 🤗❤ Thank you for sharing, Mr Rood 🙏
Thank you!
Beautifull Family. Thank you for posting.