WHAT A DELIGHT TO SEE MANY FAMILIAR ORNAMENTS LIKE THE ONES THAT HUNG ON MANY TREES DURING MY CHILDHOOD. HOW MANY OF THOSE BOXES CAME FROM SEARS OR GRANTS!! MERRIEST CHRISTMAS AND HAPPIEST NEW YEAR TO YOU AND YOURS. 🎅🎍🎅🎍🎅🎍
Ben knew everyone... From JFK to Kate Hepburn. From Blossom to Tony Perkins. They all gave their talents to Painted Smiles (not JFK ofcourse). Ben was fun, smart, knowledgeable and giving. He had the ability to put together the right person with the right song. He was easy to work for... and with. Example: Ben sent Bart Howard ["In Other Words"] to me... to design Bart's CD cover. He was not afraid to share. We, my wife (who was Music Editor at Stereo Review at the time), introduced me to Ben. We shared many dinners together. Lot's of talk. Lot's of gossip. Dorothy Kilgallon, the columnist, was a buddy of his. Ben got around... all around. Painted Smiles & Ben's musical mind... LIVES❣
It's like i"m in my basement two days from now day after Thanksgiving getting ready to pull the christmas stuff out to begin decorating for the season. Even the old cardboard boxes that hold them, I have many of the sets I see here. My Grandmother and Mother were huge with Christmas, so I inherited all their stuff when they passed. All vintage sets from 1940's- 60's. All the childhood memories putting them up every year. I still do it as I love these over anything from the store's last 20 years. This is what Christmas looks like, Home..
I love your addiction! I'm hooked on anything vintage Christmas. I'll be getting a mini silver tinsel tree this year! I have my lighted ceramic tree on now lol and it's only July. I've been watching tons of Christmas videos, songs, looking at Christmas in July on QVC. I have some old Shiny Brite ornaments from my dad's old collection. I'd love to collect and buy more but money isn't rampant this year.
Wow that is some collection! If I had the money I'd collect them right now. My collection of 1950s purses (lucite and bakalite) were the most extensive collection I've had. I have 80 of them. They were very costly! I still have them.
This is the best antique ornament tree video! First off I so appreciate slowly filming all of them from bottom to top. I loved the beautiful display of ornaments and they were such a treat to see. Many of these ornaments I had as a child (my dad's family collection). I love the background music and of course the clock since I have the exact one here in the living room lol. Thank you so much. I will share the video and I liked and subscribed!
I did this exact tree about six years ago. White tree multicolor twinkle lights, even down to the Radko ornaments. Simply beautiful! I did not want to take mine down that year so gorgeous!!
What a beautiful collection! I’ve just starting to collect but only have enough to put on my 4’ vintage aluminum tree so far. It’s addicting! Yours are in great shape too! I was born in 67, so missed the “Atomic” years, but collecting ornaments still takes me back to my wonderful childhood.
What a pleasure to take the tour of your ornaments! I see several who are cousins to ones who hide in my boxes all year long waiting for their moment in the spotlights. Isn't it a pleasure beyond simple definition to enter into the magic of these creations?
We have a tree with 55 original 1950's striped Shiney Brites along with 100 other orig 50's glass balls, including pine cones, SB printed balls, 1930's Chianti bottles and Pre or just post WWII German and eastern Europe indentation balls. All these were added to our family tree over a 30 year buying period starting in the 1930's. We do, however, have at least fifteen items which have been in my family from the late 1800's to the early 1920's which have shown up in family photos from 1922 back...
They have several of we used to call flying saucer type bubble lights which are REALLY 1950's items. We had two or three of that type on our Xmas tree along with several other types we bought over the years. I wished they slowed the sweeps and focused on the individual light more. But still, this is a great post....
I hav decorations on my tree weve had since the 1960's I enjoy putting them on the tree every yr thinking of my childhood and telling my son the memories stories of my Christmas long ago
At 0:26, it made me think of some clear ornaments that we had when I was a child. I would put the tip of a tree branch inside the ornament . And the following year, mom would find a stick and neddles inside the ornament .I never could understand why it fell apart.
