Christmas in the 70s

Christmas in the 1970s was just different, as anyone who celebrated them knows.We’d spend days looking through the Sears catalog Wish Book, circling doll houses, banana-seat bicycles and “go-go boots” that looked like Nancy Sinatra’s. We put Alvin and the Chipmunks’ “The Christmas Song” on “repeat” ...

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1970 Christmas

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Style is always changing - whether you are throwing away your last year's sweater because it is hideous now or finding the home decor horrendous. On the other hand, something from twenty or so years ago is now comfortably back in fashion. And while in some instances trends change faster than seasons do, other times a vintage style might stay forever. Though you might've never thought about it, even Christmas trees aren't impervious to the trends around us.

"We've taken a step back into the vault and pulled out a few nostalgic morsels that confirm the '70s also had some pretty great Christmas traditions."