A Christmas Yuleblog

Daylight savings time in the United States is coming to an end this year. It ends Sunday morning at 2 AM. Be sure to adjust all of your clocks before you go to bed tonight - remember fall back - an extra hour of sleep! Capt

In addition to collecting Christmas music, I have collected nearly 1000 vintage Christmas ads over the years. Many of these include celebrities, radio, television, cigarettes, liquor, modern appliances, and the like. I will attempt every Friday from here until I run out, I will feature an ad from my collection. I invite you to add a fun comment, witticism, clever remark, or observation in the comments section provided. Any comments deemed worthy of repeating will be included into this entry where all the world will see it. Several months ago, as I was attempting to complete the reorganization and cataloguing of all of my vintage Christmas ads, I visited Antiques on Broadway near downtown Fort Wayne. This shop usually has a gem or two to be unearthed. In the basement of the store sits a booth that contains three folding tables of vintage ads, all carefully organized and wrapped in plastic for your protection. Many was the time I browsed the table that contained "Christm...

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In addition to collecting Christmas music, I have collected nearly 1000 vintage Christmas ads over the years. Many of these include celebrities, radio, television, cigarettes, liquor, modern appliances, and the like. I will attempt every Friday from here until I run out, I will feature an ad from my collection. I invite you to add a fun comment, witticism, clever remark, or observation in the comments section provided. Any comments deemed worthy of repeating will be included into this entry where all the world will see it. I had many projects over the past summer. One was getting the remainder of my vintage LIFE, Look, Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, McCall's, and Ladies Home Journal magazines organized and cataloged. I reviewed each issue for Christmas ads I either had, forgot to add, or to find new ones I might have overlooked. I've also added to my collection of vintage magazines. When I opened a LIFE magazine dated December 12, 1938 I won at eBay, I was pl...

My thoughts exactly, Grommit! A few weeks ago, I posted an update that got quite a bit of response both online and off. More updates are in the works as well as reviews of several upcoming Christmas releases that arrived at my P.O. Box. However, there was one package that stood apart from the rest. There was no return address and no post office markings anywhere on the envelope. The presumably Pitney-Bowes label had no evidence of its origin. I could post a photo of it but after reading the cover letter, I won't. The cover letter was informative. The Times New Roman font was utilized, printed from MS Word (again presumably), and was left unsigned. I suppose I could go all "CSI" and dust for fingerprints and DNA while doing my best David Caruso impersonation but I won't. The text of the letter: " Hey Capt! Long time reader here - love the blog! You are putting on a Christmas play and I wish you have a great run! I've been involved in the...