First 2015 Christmas Post...tongue in cheek magazine cover...etc. in our home towns of Fort William and Port Arthur, Ontario...

I'll start off by wishing everyone a Very Merry Christmas Season, and as we warm up to the Christmas shopping nightmare, we always need a little comic relief or at least something to get us in the mood for the business at hand.

Last year HR&J made up a vintage tongue in cheek Christmas magazine cover...and this year is no exception.  Here's the first one....click on everything in this post to enlarge.

Now...old car magazines of which I have hundreds of (duh...as if you didn't know) always have some pretty cool and interesting cartoons.....but as a kid, no wonder we didn't know how to spell anything correctly....they used incorrect spelling for tons of cartoons just like this one..... 

"ENDEERING THOT"....I hope that means "Endearing Thought"?.....LOL

This next little piece isn't a cartoon at all....Just a nice little drawing advertising Ford V8 Trucks, doing all that is needed to do for the Christmas season.

Here's a very seasonal and favourite picture I have posted before....but it is of my uncle Henry taken circa 1940 sitting on the hood of my dad's 1928 Studebaker Erskine, after loading enough trees to take home for the whole family...apparently it even had a heater.... You could have bought one Erskine in 1928 for under $1000. 

Getting Christmas trees in the day was always quite a challenge since many of the country roads were not looked after very well.  This is not a family photo but it is pretty old.  The title said it was a 1915 Chevrolet Series H-2 Royal Mail Roadster.  A summer picture of a similar model is also shown here

Here is my dad and as usual we are out for trees..... He is loading enough trees for the whole family back in 1958 using his Kam Motors Company Car...1958 Chevrolet BelAir.  This was an annual event from as far back as I can remember until he wasn't physically able to do it anymore.  

Sadly this is the first Christmas we are spending without my dad as he passed this past January at the ripe old age of 95.   Love you and miss you POP...

Here's a shot of how the BelAir would have looked from the rear.  The car above was "Forest Green" however.  The next item is how the invoice might have looked for dad's car in 1958

The next few photos are not local but gives you an idea of how crazy Christmas Shopping always was throughout the 20th century....enjoy...

Window shopping in the 1940's

Here's a couple of Christmas season shopping photos which could actually have been taken in any town USA or Canada in the 1960's.

Looking in the picture above you might find a 1936 Chevrolet to which Dad could have added all the accessories below.....and the same thing goes today.  When my wife asks me what I want for Christmas you already know what the answer would be................

"CAR PARTS"

Hope you enjoyed the first Christmas Post.....There will be another soon staring none other than my friend Roger Rickards and all the great under the tree items he and his brother got for Christmas back in the day.....