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.

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 ...

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 ...

As our photo from 1959 shows, a Christmas shopping rush is nothing new. But it also shows that in the old days, it used to happen in the days leading up to Christmas. This photograph was taken on ...