Christmas Traditions — A Trip Back to the Holidays of Yesteryear

About this episode

Bill Monty revisits nostalgic holiday traditions from the 1930s to the 1980s in this warm and funny episode.

Send me a message In this nostalgic episode of Bill Monty’s Guide for Getting Older, Bill takes a warm and funny trip down memory lane to revisit the holiday traditions from the 1930s through the 1980s that have all but disappeared. From aluminum Christmas trees with spinning light wheels, tinsel that sparkled but had an "edge" to it, Christmas caroling, and Christmas catalogs kids treated like priceless treasure, we celebrate the simple joys that shaped our childhood holidays. Join us for st...

People in this episode

Host: Bill Monty

Topics covered

• Christmas traditions
• nostalgia
• holiday celebrations
• childhood memories
• cultural history

Keywords

• Christmas
• traditions
• nostalgia
• holiday
• memories
• aluminum Christmas trees
• caroling
• tinsel
• catalogs

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