Christmas at the 1950s House Museum
Gurley candles, gold sleigh, red plastic cookie cutters and a vintage Christmas tablecloth decorate the dining room table in December. | |
The cookie cutters and rolling pin are waiting on the red enamel table. Favorite cookbooks and recipes are there when the family is ready to start cookie making. |
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Blow mold snowman and Santa cut-out, "basement" 2015. |
Noble Fir Metal Tree Black Forest Green. Read about the tree we are using 2009-- |
The family arrives at Grandma's front door, laden with gifts in this 1950s ad. Kids are in wool snowsuits, and Dad is in a fedora. A knee-hugger elf sits on the shelf next to the ad, waiting for Santa. |
Even the Panther lamp gets decorated. Gurley Candle's "Prell Shampoo" Angel with Rosbro plastic ornaments and a plastic candelabra make the season bright on the Admiral TV. |
Rosbro plastic elves stand next to a Rosbro skiing Santa candy holder. Three Gurley Candles snowmen tip their hats, next to a tall green Gurley Candle tree. Christmas cards from relatives are on the desk top as decorations, too. Remember Angel Chimes? | Two tall male Gurley choir singers carol next to a Gurley Christmas tree, surrounded by bell-shaped ornaments with flocked decorations. A bright red die-cut "Merry Christmas" sign stands behind them on the living room buffet. |
Presents wait under the tree, but not everything is wrapped. The wrapping paper and ribbon are here, too. |
All photographs, Copyrighted by Jane Nicoll, 2008, 2010, 2015, 2016.