First Lady Grace Coolidge, Santa Claus, and children next to Christmas tree in December 1927. (Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge was the wife of the 30th President of the United States, Calvin Coolidge)
Santa on top of rare Essex automobile, San Francisco 1927
The Essex automobile was produced by the Essex Motor Company between 1918 and 1922 and by Hudson Motor Company of Detroit, Michigan between 1922 and 1933.
Santa Claus decorating a saguaro cactus, National Park Service, Arizona, 1955
During a 1955 National Park Service tour in Arizona, participants attended lectures from NPS rangers, rode horses, had a picnic, and decorated a saguaro cactus with Santa Claus.
Santa climbing the ladder up to Gimbel’s Toyland, 1947
The Gimbels Thanksgiving Day Parade is the oldest parade in the United States. It started in 1920 – four years before Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade began. Gimbels closed their doors in 1987 but the parade lives on under different sponsors.
Retro Christmas decorations 1890s - 1960s
Let`s recall how Christmas was celebrated by our parents, grandparents and great grandparents. When decorations were kept carefully year by year, presents were packed in simple brown or white paper, and fir-trees were not made from plastic.