Christmas 1960

 Mom doesn't really have that many photos in her album. She has the older ones in a binder taped to construction paper in sheet protector pages. I wish that she had put them in a regular album. I could try taking them out of this and doing so myself but I am afraid that even if I am being careful that I will mess them up. That did happen to a tiny part of one of my grandpa.

These are the few photos that she has of Christmas 1960. I wonder what type of camera and film were used for this. They are such small photos. None of her or grandpa and just one of grandma in the kitchen. The others are of Aunt Jo and her kids

O Christmas Tree- 1980s

 

1980

1981

1982

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

We had a live Christmas tree every year during this decade. It was so much fun going to pick out one.

O Christmas Tree- 1969 and 1970s

 I thought that we had more photos of just the tree from the 1970s but it turns out that we didn't. We started getting a live tree in 1978 which is earlier than I remembered. I had thought that it was 1979. We don't really have any good photos of the tree from 1970-1973. We don't have any Christmas photos from 1975 which is disappointing.

1969- Uncle Mike

1969- Me under the tree

1974

The tree looks different in the first photo than in the other 2- like there is tinsel as well as garland on it. I know for sure that it is the right year; maybe we took the tinsel off. It would be kind of unusual to have both things on a tree, right?

1976

Decorating the tree

Christmas morning

1977

I didn't have any photos from this year until I came across some Polaroids in a box of Dad's photos

1978

Grandma, Mark, and me. I wish that this photo hadn't been cut.

1979

Grandma and Her Daughters

 This photo of grandma with her 3 daughters- my Aunts Jo and Alice and my mother, Ruth Ann, (left to right) is from the mid-1980s

Here is one of the sisters as kids- Aunt Jo, Mom, and Alice

I only saw Aunt Jo 3 or 4 times- once when we went to Florida in 1983. Here are a few photos of her family. The first one might be from the late 1950s

Aunt Jo and Uncle Rich

Grandma, Aunt Jo and the kids

Aunt Alice and her family-1960s, before Mary who was born in 1972.

Aunt Al and Uncle Gene

Christmas time-

Aunt Jo and Mom

Mom with Grandma and Prince- 1968

Aunt Al and Mom

Some 1980s Hallmark Christmas Decorations-Part 2

 I used to collect raccoon items in the late 1970s-early 1990s, including these ornaments

Santa, Otter 1995, and a sleeping bear

Wall hanging decorations