And the bionic tidings keep coming... "This is me Christmas 1975," reader Diane Davis tells us. "I scored the Bionic Woman and Tuesday Taylor dolls, both which I still have." Not only that, b...
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If not for Mason Reese's success , would Corey Feldman's chubby cheeks have been in demand? If not for Corey Feldman's chubby cheeks, would Corey Feldman's career have taken off? If not for Co...
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Nothing says Christmas like Col. Steve Austin beating down a bad guy in a department store. And, of course, nothing says Christmas classic like a poor voice actor doing his best to make kids be...
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We found this ultra-cool, ultra-definitive shot of a Star Wars Christmas via illustrator Jason Chalker's Flickr page . That's the 1978 version of Jason showing off his haul at the homefront in...
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...from all us elves! Done with your unwrapping already? Was it all a blur? Savor Christmas morns past in our snapshots collection .
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I don't have a picture of this -- just a memory. It is circa Christmas 1975, and I am a sophisticate! A second-grade Lauren Hutton! I am! I just know it! I, Joal Ryan, have been allowed to stay u...
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Frank Sarcia sends in this fun, Christmas 1970 image of him and his sister in Pelham, New Hampshire. Like the best family snapshots, all appears merry and bright -- note, appears. Frank explain...
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This is me and my sister Val at my grandparents' house in Oshawa, Ontario, and it's 1974. My grandparents on my dad's side are of German descent, so we opened all our presents on Christmas Eve,...
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"I was thrilled to get Stretch Armstrong. I played with that thing all the time ... until it cracked, and gooed all over the place." -- John Hildman on Christmas 1977 in Sioux City, Iowa. Oh, ...
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"What a bleak, stark, year," Andy Frueh said of Christmas 1979. Due to the tough economy (that sounds familiar...), Andy doesn't remember he and his siblings getting much. "But at least we had...
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You say Hoppity Hop; our friends in the United Kingdom say Space Hopper. (Oh, those theatre-going Brits -- they just have to be different, don't they?) On any continent, the big, rubber bouncy ...
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Are you a Santa doll expert? Even better, are you a naked Santa doll expert? Do you know when this lovely Fibre-Craft naked Santa doll (Model No. 3104) was first sold? Given that it was manufact...
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"Mom, it's just not Christmas around here until we hang your discarded pantyhose containers on the tree." --Joal R.
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Last week, Glenn Beck cried for a "simpler time" in America. In doing so, he joined a long line of misty-eyed nostalgics who likewise have pined. Considering the federal government didn't make...
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Apparently, even Santa was troubled by the pending cable revolution... Not sure if the script is legible, but it says, "Christmas is more than an Orange..." Now, why it says "Christmas is m...
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I picked this up a few years ago at a thrift store. The collection is nothing special (Roger Whittaker, Arthur Fiedler, Robert Shaw Chorale, zzz...) The dog with the Alpo face is awesome. --...
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As I've written , despite my interest in Christmas in the 1970s, I don't have a lot of pictures of my own 1970s Christmastime self. Which makes the shot to your left all the more precious. It'...
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David Tedeschi recently submitted some fantastic shots of Christmas 1977, and they're too good not to at least share one. This shot is literally a "who's who" of cool 1970s toys. We have Maska...
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I got an Ideal Toss Across this very Christmas. Apparently my first-grade teacher said I needed more hand-eye coordination, and this game was my mother's solution. My mother brags now how it i...
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From January 1976. The folks at Noma (the Christmas light company , natch) must have breathed a sigh of relief as everyone in the Christmas light industry knows that Santa is a notorious hard-as...
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What kind of super team could you form with Mr. Spock, Batman, Shazam and George Washington? I'm not sure, but I know I wouldn't mess with it. --Brian H.
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During the 1976 Christmas season, Lionel partnered with Johnny Cash on a TV special called Riding the Rails, all about America's love affair with trains. The special worked: Little children eve...
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And, in retrospect, it's too bad for his own good that he didn't move there permanently. No way Oscar would have stood for talk of Diprivan near his can. A tough-love sort if ever there was one. ...
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As a collector of action figures dolls, this video both amuses, and kind of horrifies me. Just the way I tear through that window makes me understand why "Mint in Package" toys cost so much. Al...
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I'm 39, and I still want a G.I. Joe Command Headquarters, but I'd settle for a really nice boxed Big Jim or Action Jackson at this point. --Brian H. P.S.: Hate to tell you, Brian, but ...
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