There is just something so nostalgic about watching old,family 8mm movies,no matter what the subject,be it Christmas,prom night or summertime. What a truly different time it was. Men wore hats,kids were dressed nicely and the women dressed for the occasion too. So much better then.
I appreciate the social graces then as well, especially the dressing nice aspect every day. I have been guilty of leaving the house looking like a total slob on a rare occasion but usually I am at least presentable looking. Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment. Cheers!
I love seeing these home movies I miss my childhood. Now I have four kids of my own. I love to see their faces on Christmas. I'm a single mom now, by the grace of God my kids will have a good Christmas this year.
Tessie Hi there. I appreciate your looking and leaving a comment as well. I never thought anyone would bother with these old movies. I’m glad it sparked memories for you. Happy holidays. Cheers
@@boinnng I agree - the best times to grow up! Great TV shows, hairstyles (until 1968, when American started headed down the toilet and the great hairstyles with it), great cars (clearly by looking at that fantastic Mercury), pretty much everything!
thanks and yes they were. Heart warming old videos like these are wat christmas was really about. I remember waking up around 3am, so excited to go upstairs and see what santa brought me. I would go wake up my parents,,,saying dad mom,,santa came,,,then we would all put on our robes, dad would start the fireplace and make coffee and mom would play the christmas music on the stereo,,,then dad wou;d start calling family telling them merry christmas while i was messing with my new toys santa brought me. Man i wish those days could repeat.
Yes, it would be nice to revisit those days....for the experience as well as to see the people there once again. All you can really do is try to create memories like that for others now. Have a great new year. Cheers.
I remember the blinding light of the 8mm movie camera. My brothers and I would have to wait at the top of the stairs until Dad got out of the bathroom which seemed took an eternity! So much excitement at Christmas time for us kids and I'm glad had his camera to capture moments of it!! Thank you for sharing!
I'm glad my grandmother's home movies stirred those memories for you. Are these home movies of yours on here somewhere? Ho ho ho! Have a great holiday season. CHEERS!
Christmas presents sucked for my family. We got one thing. What made Christmas great for us was the overall general good feeling we had between school Christmas programs, church stuff, holiday trimmings everywhere, snow on the ground, beautiful Bitterroot mountains to the west, Christmas tree hunt, cut and decoration and good TV shows, etc. But still only one present. Good thing I can give my kids more presents in one or two years than I received by the time I left the house, joined the military and went on to a better life. And I hope every family that grew up humble like my large family goes on to a less humble life but keep the good feelings.
Thanks for commenting. I'm sorry Christmas wasn't as present filled for you as others of the same time may have been---but glad you can make up for it with your own family now. It's less than 2 months from Christmas 2018. I hope you have a ho-ho-ho merry time. Cheers!
When families sat around the Christmas tree and appreciated the joy of giving rather than the raucous mad dash of greed seen today and the rudeness that comes with that.
oh such good good vintage times and simple life..thanks for sharing..i remember going to visit my grandparents and they had a silver tree with the rotating color lite..oh was so peaceful..
Hello. I'm just now seeing your note. Thanks for visiting the video. I'm glad it could transport you back to your youth a bit. Merry Christmas (several months from now) back at ya! Cheers.
I would love to take someone from today and make them go back then. In an hour they would be so freaked because there was no internet and three tv channels they would start drooling on themselves.
And imagine if you took someone from back then and made them go back to the 17th century. No electric, no cars, no movies, etc. But yeah, I know what you mean. When we get used to our modern conveniences it's hard to go back and live without them. BTW I'd love to go back, just long enough to relive some of those moments.
Ronbo710 absolutely true. Sometimes, after growing up close to that time , I feel like I Am In some weird reality. It is so surreal for someone to withdraw from the people in the room, right next to them, to join with someone who is not via text or call. You just want to tell some of the kids that these are the good times, memories you’re gonna want to keep.
Thank you. I have no idea what happened to it. Grandma is gone now. Mom may have it... I doubt it, but you never know. Thanks for visiting. Merry Christmas. Cheers!
I was born late 1960. We were blessed to have had those kind of Christmas. People all together presents and lots of good food .no we wasn't rich just middle class .i miss them days and all my family
This reminds me of Christmas morning when I was a little kid. I remember my Dad would be taking movies and his camera had the big light bar attached with 4 blinding movie lights as we opened our gifts. I see the setting of this movie was in a pretty rural area. My childhood was in a much more urban area as I'm from Brooklyn NY.
This was in a suburban neighborhood---but the lots were 1/4 acres...The houses were maybe 15 years old at the time and it was nice. Now you wouldn't want to live there... I loved that house---but wouldn't want to live there now. CHEERS!
I love how the lady is standing beside the small tree and walks toward the camera. “Oh, and there’s Evelyn. Hi Evelyn! Why don’t you and your pocketbook walk over here.”
Suzanne Jenkins Ha! I know exactly what you mean. That is my grandmother, Ruby, and she is like that in several of the videos I discovered when I had them converted . Thank you for visiting. Cheers
That’s hilarious! I called her Evelyn because in my family videos, it’s my grandmother doing the same thing! Or getting in the car and waving but not driving away. And always dressed up with that pocketbook! She even went to church once...small Baptist one, and came home and complained that no one complimented her on her dress! Those were indeed wonderful times since video was fairly new and they mimicked what they saw on television if they had one. Cheers to you!
yes those hair sets were priceless. Women in our family had those styles with those hair pieces and lots of hair spray and eyelashes and frost lip stick. Wow everybody was on the same page in the 60's
Man! I loved the 60's so much, Its almost as though,every other decade was just not interesting enough. I was a lucky boy, who got spoilt, along with his 5 siblings, We were poor, But we were a family, and Christmas was wonderful.
Karen Siegel Your family’s old home movies may turn up eventually as ours did (and there are still many missing). Fingers crossed that you find them. They are a treasure. Happy New Year! Cheers
She reminded all of us of JoAnne Worley, at least physically. You can see her again here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uYPxyUJxIy0.html Thanks for watching/commenting. CHEERS!
We didn't always have the white tree either (My 1967 Christmas video has a real tree), but I know what you mean by the "feeling". Christmas has never been the same since this era ended... At least not for me. Cheers!
The Joann Whirley look alike, sitting on that guys lap, I have a feeling he is shipping out after the first of the year to that place called Vietnam. Westmorland and Johnson say it will be over in a year. He'll be home for next Christmas.
No, my uncle did NOT go to Vietnam. He did "disappear" for a number of years though, reappearing in the early/mid-70s. Faux Joann Whirley and he divorced. I don't know what happened to her, but my uncle has since died (cancer).
@@Wa3ypx As far as I know (I was very young...as you can see in the movie), no. But I think he just disappeared into the whole late 60s counter culture for a while. He was very "hippie"-esque the rest of his life.
The girl is actually wearing a girdle. I thought only chubby women wore girdles. Such great memories. My cousin took all our grandparents' home/projector movies, transferred them onto CD's and added music. Truly enjoyable....seeing all my relatives from back in the day....and, my great-grandparents whom I have never known. Sweet!!❤️
Yes, these old movies ARE treasures. Yours are as well, I'm sure. I only have vague memories of my grandfather and my brother has no memories of him at all...so these were priceless. It's also wonderful to see these people back in the day---young, healthy, ALIVE.
Its great looking back to the good old days when we appreciated what we got for Christmas they were the best days not like nowadays when its all greed wish i could go back to the good old days
I'd love to return to a more innocent era as well. I liked being a kid for the most part. So much ahead of me... Now that future is mostly gone. And I so miss the people who are no longer here. Cheers
Thank you for this video. I enjoy watching home Christmas home movies from the 60's. At first, I thought this was down South looking out the window and no one in warm clothes but once the camera took me outside and seeing the mountains, definitely California. The younger brunette with big hair looks like Joann Worley! Thanks again.
Hi. I am glad you liked the video/home movie. Yes, that was in California---Fresno, California, actually. Yes, my uncle's first wife DID look like Joann Worley. Everyone thought so. You can see her (Pat) again in the Christmas video of the next year. The link is here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uYPxyUJxIy0.html Thank you so much for your kind comment. Cheers!
Thanks for looking--and commenting. I'm glad people find this interesting. I just added them to preserve them somewhere. I hope your Christmas was delightful. Happy New Year!
What a great video! These are just the Christmases I had as a child in the '60s! Except we weren't lucky enough to have a relative that looked like Joanne Worley!
I wish I could have this kind of Christmas... Instead, this Christmas we didn't even do anything, not even opened presents. I got in a fight with my brother because he was throwing a tantrum, and everyone was just doing their own thing.
That's kind of how Christmas has become with my nephew. He takes the gifts and passes them out to everyone and then everyone opens their gifts at the same time...that seems so wrong to me. But my nephew is a spoiled teenager and his parents let him do what he wants. Oh well... This ain't 1966 any more...
The footage at the end sends chills down my spine for some reason. I'm sure the road is paved now - was that Sample road? I live on Auberry road which has been realigned with all the tummy-churning ups-and-downs smoothed out. As a teenager, still living in Fresno, the first thing I did when I got my driver's license was to drive up Auberry road to Prather. As you can tell, I'm letting your home movies take me back - thanks for posting them!
Hello. I have no idea what road that is at the end of the movie. Sorry. I also apologize for being so long in responding. I appreciate you watching the old movie and commenting. Cheers
The woman in the green dress sitting on the man's lap looks like she could be an identical twin sister of Jo Ann Worley from Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.
If I ever get the chance to go back in time it would be the 60s . Merry Christmas to all of you . Don't mind this pestilence, it's just for a season . GOD has plans for us ,not to hurt us ,but to give ever lasting life . More abundant then we have ever seen . The question is are you ready ?
Ontario Guy , thanks for asking. I am the little boy, now 52. My parents (woman in red, man in green shirt) divorced. My mom is in her early 70s. She remarried but her husband died of cancer a few years ago. My father is alive but I never see him. He is in his mid/late 70s and on wife 6 or 7. He lives in Modesto I think. The man in the chair with his girlfriend/wife was my uncle. He died of melanoma about 10 years ago. I have no idea about his ex-wife (first of three wives). My grandparents both have died, my grandfather in early 1970 and my grandmother around 2006.
Thanks for the reply...Who ever took the movie knew how to handle a camera .I see a lot of home movies from back then with the quality not being very good and they always moved way to fast.Its sad that we all get older and we lose people but in these videos we stay young forever!
My grandfather was the cameraman. He was a home movie enthusiast. He later bought my father a camera for our own home movies. I remember some of those and they remain lost at the moment. Hopefully I'll unearth them and have them converted as well. My grandfather was a Greyhound bus driver. My grandmother was a housewife. She was devastated by his death and grieved for him the rest of her life---almost 35 years. I loved their house. My grandmother always had the curtains open and was forever playing her stereo with music by Mantovani and others like him. I miss those days.
Very kind of you to share your memories with us. Thank you. My dad was a great home movies taker also. Unfortunately, all our movies were destroyed due to mold and moving from place to place. Your footage is a gentle reminder of my own 60s Christmas mornings.
Hello and happy recent birthday, 2 months ago. Yes, this was 1966. I found Christmas 1965 HERE: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-67ytQhpMpLw.html and Christmas 1967 HERE: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uYPxyUJxIy0.html . I am the little boy in all three, born in April 1965...with my brother coming along in 1967. I hope you enjoy your 51st year. Here's hoping your Christmas was magical and your new year (which starts in just a few hours) will be filled with adventure and amazing surprises. Thanks for watching and commenting. Cheers
No---I am still in California. I started saying "Cheers" decades ago as I looking for something more interesting as well as generic to sign off with---other than "Later", "Love you", "Take Care", etc. "Cheers" seemed fresh and noncommittal and not as rude as "Later" or "Bye"
I was 2 at the time @ I have a lot of pictures that look just like that.. My sisters were 15 @ 18 at that time and they used Aqua-Net hair spray. LOTS OF IT !! 420foolz.
@Monster A Go Go Loved the decor back in the day .. We had the same green color carpeting .. sculptured .. console stereo.... and our neighbors had a silver Christmas tree .. I remember that hair era and hair spray too . the lady looking like Joanne Worley also looked just like my moms hairdresser .. I was about 14 or 15... my mom took me to her to get my haircut... in a ladies beauty shop ! All the hair spray , the rotten egg perm smell , and back then you could smoke in public places .. surprised the place didn’t explode ..Her hairdresser had that big jet black tall beehive too .. I thought it was a bit intimidating.. but what did I know about ladies hair do’s . I was just a teenage kid.. embarrassed being in a beauty shop .. I can still remember her shampooing my hair . Yet, she really gave me a good haircut..
I have no idea. I was the little kid then and there's nothing else in the footage to indicate what it was. But it looks like booze of some sort to me. Thanks for visiting. Cheers!
these are fun to watch and everybody looks nice too. its just before the hippies ruined everything. remember when family used to be civil? was this in california?
Hi, may I use clips from this on my short video? It's for a romantic scene. I can gladly add your name to the thank you credits. I need about 10 seconds of footage.
They have a place to which I sent my 8mm film. I paid a professional service to convert my film into a digital format you can upload on youtube. Google it.
That was my uncle... There was other furniture, but I somehow remember---at least for the first few Christmases--not much sitting in furniture, but all gathered around the action at the tree. Thanks for visiting.
