A Very Merry Christmas to Everyone and of course I'm sorry for not being diligent with my posts. No excuses...just promises to get to more. This is just a little Christmas Memory post from younger years, with a Christmas card for all and a big hello and thank you to my Facebook friends as well.
The next photo here is an annual thing I do and that is to create a tongue in cheek "Hot Rods and Jalopies" magazine cover. I guess it's wishful thinking that I could publish a magazine, but at least I have covers. I have done one every year for the past 10 years and they can be found around Christmastime posts. The nice police officer was assisting the pretty young lady by adding a dime to the meter so she wouldn't get a ticket. I would have done the same thing. 😄
Christmas is always a time for gift giving and this photo taken in the early 1960's of a random young man in a hobby shop reminded me of myself. I rarely bought a Christmas gift for anyone I knew from a model hobby shop, but if I got any cash for Christmas in the 1950's, off I would head to Lil's Hobby Lobby to their original store on south Franklin St. here in Fort William, near our home, where a model car of some sort would be purchased, and in the day would be about .98 cents to $1.49.
I received this very toy below when I was about 12 years old and any kid would utter shouts of joy if he received one under his Christmas tree.
Another favourite that I received in those days was Tinkertoy. That was the so called gaming device of the times.
A memory many of us may have isn't so much that of easy peel Mandarin oranges, but the fact that they came in wooden boxes and all the way from Japan. There's an old saying that people that didn't have much would save the green wrapping paper to used for toilet paper. To me it was all rumors. LOL
These two following advertisements came from a 1952 Christmas edition of Motors Magazine. Click on them to enlarge.
Here is the 1956 Christmas editition of Chilton's Motor Age magazine with great graphics, however Santa sure looked like an elf beside the mechanic.
Christmas can't go by without a 1940's shot of Laurel and Hardy after having a terrible day trying to sell Christmas trees....they are momentarily not speaking to each other..... another LOL. These guys were the best.
The final entry here is of an old book I found with my old magazines that was likely my own from 1952. All that was left is the cover, but it was a Christmas shopping catalog that Woolworth's did put out for their customers.
Once More - A Very Merry Christmas to all our friends and followers....and one final word for the holiday season.....
DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE - and as they used to say, the life you save may be your very own.
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