
Day 3
DECORATIONS & MUSIC

Fifteen 1970s Christmas Decorations that Just Won’t Die
https://omigods.com/1970s-christmas-decorations

Aluminum Trees & Icicles (tinsel)
My paternal grandmother had that very tree! LOL Yep, silver aluminum and blue balls! She lived in Cleveland, Ohio and we would drive up from Columbus for the holidays. And it was sooooo covered in tinsel! We did some tinsel at home, but not much. However, the tree was draped in a lot of garland. Our tree topper was a star, not an angel.

We three kids made construction paper chains at school and at home. We didn't have a hard plastic Santa outside but we had a hard plastic light up Christmas mouse inside sitting by the fireplace! Outside, my dad made, out of ply-wood, our family in snow people.

1970's Christmas Trees
We had two trees. One in the living room that was the main Christmas tree with my mother's mother's very old ornaments and other nice things. The tree in the porch was our kid tree! Boy did we think we were special! LOL It held all of our homemade ornaments or things we made at school. I 'get it' now ...

My sister and I each had the elf on the shelf. One was in green and one was in red. The elves didn't do the whole elf on the shelf thing ... they were just Christmas dolls we looked forward to seeing come out every year. We had those mugs and all the paper accordion decor and funny plastic melted popcorn bead things. And ... oh!! These sequenced ornaments ... more about that tomorrow!

How did people decorate Christmas trees in the 70s? See 55 different ways
https://clickamericana.com/holidays...rishes-festivity-vintage-christmas-trees-1974

70's Christmas: Best Christmas Songs of the Seventies
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs_BtJUr-PzSJhs1neuvpLWNjIetWNR-T
Here is a nice list of that decades Christmas songs.
The Jackson 5 and Santa Claus Is Coming To Town is big in my memory! Fun songs. And of course The Carpenters - Merry Christmas, Darling is so sweet. My mom actually had a lot of old records from earlier times that she would play on her pink record player. I grew up listening to 40's, 50's, 60's, and 70's Christmas favorites.
Peace out until tomorrow when we look at:
1970's - Day 3 – Family Traditions