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Vintage Christmas and Vintage Mom

Discussion in 'PUBLIC Vintage Chatter - Anything and everything' started by lkranieri, Dec 16, 2018.

  1. lkranieri

    lkranieri VFG Member

  2. amandainvermont

    amandainvermont VFG Member

    That was fun. As a child I never saw anybody who had a "fake" tree - they were all fresh.
     
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  3. The Vintage Merchant

    The Vintage Merchant Administrator Staff Member

  4. poppysvintageclothing

    poppysvintageclothing VFG Board Member Staff Member VFG Past President

  5. Midge

    Midge Super Moderator Staff Member

  6. thespectrum

    thespectrum VFG Member Staff Member

    Fun pix, thanks! In the late 50s/early 60s I lived in a home that was as modern (Danish Modern) as Mad Men. My parents had the silver tree and the color wheel.
    My first Christmas on my own I had a real tree. After I started being a cat lady I had to give up trees. They took all of the ornaments off, they climbed them and they drank the tree water.
    When my husband was in college he bought a peach flocked tree for his apartment and left it up until March.
     
  7. lkranieri

    lkranieri VFG Member

    Thank you all for the kind and enthusiastic comments. Love your pink tree lindapoirier!

    Did anyone notice the color wheel at ceiling height in the fourth photo? It took me a minute to realize what that was.
     
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  8. denisebrain

    denisebrain VFG Vice President Staff Member VFG Past President

    Whoa, Linda, we have a pink tree as well! We're still working on conked-out lights this year (spent all day yesterday :rolleyes:) but here's last year's! tree2017.jpg

    Also, last year I dug up this photo of my mother in the 40s with her Christmas tree. Awfully blurry, but still...I love her shoes!

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    Does anyone else look at old candid photos like those in the piece Lynne posted and scour for things you've actually sold or owned?
     
  9. MagsRags

    MagsRags VFG President Staff Member

    Old tinsel was high in lead - probably not good for pets and small children who might pick up fragments and eat it, but hung beautifully and reflected the lights like nothing else. I had 4 or 5 boxes I found in an old dingy 5 & dime store while vacationing in Florida 3o+ years ago - for years, I would apply strand by strand and then carefully remove the same way and store wrapped in muslin for the following year. Even with breakage, I could salvage about 75%. Eventually, it started to feel too OCD and I stopped using it. Not sure if I still have what's left in a holiday box somewhere or not.

    Modern tinsel is not worth the trouble IMO. Plastic, no crinkle to it, and it floats in a breeze. ignoreemoti
     
  10. thespectrum

    thespectrum VFG Member Staff Member

    My personal Christmas tree in 1949 and the family tree the same year:
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  11. Robin of Frocksley

    Robin of Frocksley Registered Guest

    Love all the vintage Christmas stuff!!!

    As far as tinsel goes, I have a treasured vintage metallic gold garland in "well loved" condition.

    Here's a pic of it on my fireplace mirror!
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  12. Maggie wrote: "Does anyone else look at old candid photos like those in the piece Lynne posted and scour for things you've actually sold or owned?"

    I think that, in a nutshell, is the appeal and the motivation behind the love of all things vintage!
     
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  13. amandainvermont

    amandainvermont VFG Member

    Linda - LOVE your recent vintage purchases.
     
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  14. Midge

    Midge Super Moderator Staff Member

  15. Love those pink trees!
     
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  16. thespectrum

    thespectrum VFG Member Staff Member

    I just posted this on IG, it's only the top of our silver tree, I am still looking for more Christmas pix from that era but I think they are actually slides. I have boxes full of slides. Talk about old-fashioned technology! I wish I had pix of the full tree with the color wheel.
    1965, my Granny, me, my stepmother and the top of the tree.
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  17. Racked Vintage

    Racked Vintage Alumni VFG Past President

    Linda, I LOVE it!! Also after a quick glance, I was certain that said "f*cker flame lights* holiday lightsoopsemoti

    Also, I am obsessed with Christmas trees. They just hold a special place in my heart with memories of my grandmother and decorating the tree every year with my mother. Here is a photo of my ceramic and misc. collection as well as my favorite tree of the bunch - my silver pom pom tree with Shiny Brights! I have 24 trees at last count. christmas tree
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  18. amandainvermont

    amandainvermont VFG Member

    LOVE the Christmas tree collection.
     
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  19. Racked Vintage

    Racked Vintage Alumni VFG Past President

    Yes! Lol Linda...my white and blue tree is bluebirds! A very unique one, indeed. I love all your items as well. Vintage Christmas is the BEST!!
     
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