Aw!!! My mother would give me oranges on Christmas and I would not be thrilled because we had an orange tree in the backyard! But she explained that when she was a kid an orange was an exciting thing to have in the winter and it made me appreciate the orange.
These letters are so sweet. I hope they got everything!!!
12 years difference between these pages. Do you think the changes in what these kids wanted is due to different locations or different “generations”? E.g., “blackboard and chalk” vs “snowmobile and (pop)gun.”
Aw!!! My mother would give me oranges on Christmas and I would not be thrilled because we had an orange tree in the backyard! But she explained that when she was a kid an orange was an exciting thing to have in the winter and it made me appreciate the orange.
These letters are so sweet. I hope they got everything!!!
They are a great window into childhood before TV, Barbie and action figures
I still put an orange in my daughter’s stocking when I have her with me at Christmas. She’s 28 and I still get an Eyeroll.
More about Letters to Santa
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/12/25/dear-santa-buffalo-times/
Good find. Thanks
Fascinating stuff and pretty cute. By the way, I had no idea what a fascinator was, but my wife tells me it’s common knowledge:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascinator?wprov=sfti1#
She is a font of wisdom
12 years difference between these pages. Do you think the changes in what these kids wanted is due to different locations or different “generations”? E.g., “blackboard and chalk” vs “snowmobile and (pop)gun.”
Some of each?
Gotta love the kid who wants a warship!?
Young Teddy Roosevelt?
Or Nimitz!
Very sweet, but those are some weirdly specific and rather piggish lists if you ask me.