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Gail shows the evolution of the modes of Santa’s transportation through images of antique postcards: https://youtu.be/Za0lvLdhc_U…

In this video, Jim Thomas discusses the origins and history of Santa Pin-Back Buttons beginning in the 1910–1920s with the Red Cross/NTA Buttons and touches on each decade thereafter. He discusses sizes, makers, promotions, themes, and categories, add-ons, and more. Jim has more than 300 buttons in his collections. Jim’s passion for Santa Pin-Back Buttons…

In this video, Jim Thomas introduces the art of collecting Santa Claus Postcards. He breaks the collectible categories down by Subject/Topics, Artist/Dates, and Series/Variations, as well as postcard types including Embossed, Mechanical, Add-Ons, Fade-A-Ways, Silks, Non-Color, Real Photos, Hold-to-Light, Transparencies, and touches briefly on Non-U.S. postcards. Jim draws examples from his and his wife Pam’s…

“Christmas Movies and Music” Flimstrip On the second weekend in October 2019, the Minnesota contingent of Glow members and neighboring friends gathered at the Eagan Community Center for the 32nd annual Minnesota October Event (MOE). Sixty-three enthusiasts, including folks from six additional states, came to celebrate and participate in the weekend. The theme of this…

Dear Friends, I have been asked to write about Russian traditions about celebrating a New Year. It is our favorite holiday, much more than Christmas. Actually we only started once again to celebrate Christmas in 1991. It was celebrated earlier in Russia, before the revolution in 1917. Our New Year celebrations started in the middle…

Birth of a Bauble Extras from The GLOW In its first year of operation, the world’s only mass-production factory for manufacturing glass Christmas-tree ornaments, Wellsboro, PA, plant of the Corning Glass Works, has turned out more than half of all the new decorations which bedeck American trees this season. Here is the entire article excerpted…