Christmas became a more lavish affair with access to cheaper, mass-produced ornaments, toys, and even trees. Here’s a nostalgic look back at the holidays in the 1950s.

And in the post-war 1950s, cream cheese, bacon and spinach were the foundation of appetizers and side dishes. John Hafer shared this photo of Christmas in 1957 at their home in DeWitt, New York.

The ways a sweater is folded, stretched or rumpled determines how it settles into one of several resting meta-states.

It was Christmas Eve, 1954 ... Satisfaction at seeing his bloodline carried forward into 1950s modernity by a flock of redheaded grandchildren? My hazy memories, hazier still with smoke from ...

Christmas 1890, 7 inches of snowfall 2. Christmas 1909, 5.7 inches of snowfall 3. Christmas 1950, 3 inches of snowfall 4. Christmas 1969, 2.3 inches of snowfall 5. Christmas 1976, 1.9 inches of ...

I recently saw a picture of a family on Christmas Day in 1950’s Jamestown. In the picture, three children from the Bishop family sat in front of their fireplace on Hotchkiss Street, the girls grasping ...