I am endlessly fascinated by nostalgic photographs depicting my family at Christmas. Not only the ones with me in them, but also snapshots that include my parents and relatives…well, heck anyone who stood in front of a tree in the fifties or sixties is alright with me – especially trees in your traditional white or silver variations. The gifts from that era are really cool to gawk at too. For instance in the shot below from Christmas 1960, we can see all the neat games and toys that would fetch a pretty penny on eBay today, nestled under the tree and ready to be destroyed.
And in the shot below, my Dad is playing this great basketball game that relied on a simple metal springing mechanism to shoot a ping-pong ‘basketball’ through the net to score a point. No batteries necessary. The nostalgia of this game is not missed on me one bit, because I am exactly old enough to have received this exact same gift when I was a young boy.
More great nostalgic photos later…
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