WISHING EVERYONE A MERRY COOL CHRISTMAS

45TH ANNIVERSARY OF APOLLO 8

At the end of a troubled year in 1968, three men blasted off planet to become the first humans to orbit the moon. This historic journey paved the way for future lunar missions and at the same time gave a bruised nation some much needed relief.

The famous Earthrise photo by William Anders

Below is the original CBS broadcast from Christmas eve when the Apollo 8 crew read from the book of Genesis. This takes place at 5:10 in the video. (It always gives me goosebumps when I hear it!)

Here's an excellent Apollo 8 POV video narrated by Andrew Chaikin. It was created and released last week for the 45th anniversary. 

MID-CENTURY THOMAS TERRY CHRISTMAS CATALOG

All of the vintage Christmas cards I've been sharing are samples taken out of this Thomas Terry catalog. Now here's some scans of the catalog with a few kitchy items!

FOUND PHOTOS: YOU'LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT

One of my favorite Christmas movies is A Christmas Story and these slides from my found photo collection kind of capture the spirit of that film. 

 1962 

 1961

VINTAGE CHRISTMAS CARD: CHOO CHOO CLAUS

VINTAGE CHRISTMAS BULBS

Remember when Christmas lights were big and clunky? Here are some for your holiday viewing pleasure.

VINTAGE CHRISTMAS CARD: OUR HOUSE

TWO PACKS OF 1950S CHRISTMAS STENCILS

Yesterday, I found two 1950s Christmas stencil packets and both have fun graphics on the front envelope. In the 1970s, we never sprayed fake snow on our windows. Do people still decorate with snow in a can these days?

Kinda neat that these stencils still have the remnants of canned snow!

The Frosti-White packet only had this one sheet of stencils.

For fun I've included a can of Moore's Snow that I found stuck way back in my grandmother's cupboard. Also click here to look at a Howdy Doody stencil packet I shared back in 2011.