On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.
From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
Send in you holiday pics! I think this is our last set!!!
Today we start off with the adorable Dr. Luba and her bionic doll, and we’ll have a few more Christmas cards from the Albatrossity family.”
Me and my Christmas gifts. The huge doll walked (sort of) and was sent to me by my grandparents in Wisconsin.
In the first installment, we got to 1955, and there were five kids in the picture. This batch picks up from there.
My youngest sister Janet came along in 1961. And now we are in color! She was certainly in the picture each year after that, but I don’t seem to have those, so this is from 1965. Click here for larger image.
With a few skips and hops, get us up to 1971, when I was a senior in college and the last year I appeared in the family Christmas cards.
Tempus fugit, fer sure.
Baud
That’s an impressive doll.
Betty
Always entertaining to see how a family grows and changes over time.
zhena gogolia
OMG, I still have that doll in the attic. (Her neck is kind of broken.) She was such a thrill!
evodevo
ah, yeah…lookit those patent leather shoes – I remember my mother “polishing” them with vaseline. They were de rigueur for special occasions for girls…
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: kind of ? :-)
WaterGirl
Send in you holiday pics! I think this is our last set!!!
I don’t know about you guys, but these posts help get me in the spirit of the season.
NutmegAgain
Is that doll a Betsy-Wetsy? (Yes that was a real thing, children)
Sandia Blanca
@NutmegAgain: That doll looks like Miss Ideal. I still have mine! Betsy Wetsy was much smaller. (Had that one too!)
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Sandia Blanca: I got a Chatty Cathy the Christmas I was 9 or 10. Loved her!
stinger
I’m willing to bet Millie sewed Anne’s and Mary’s dresses in the 1965 photo. Simple pattern, fabric in a different color for each girl. I wore dresses much like that, in the same time period, made by my mother.
Love all these photos!
hitchhiker
Oof, the fashion choices for girls in those years. We were much too poor and dysfunctional to mess with things like patent leather shoes (or even clean socks, most of the time!) but I remember seeing other little girls wearing them and wanting to hide myself. I had three older brothers, and my hand-me-downs tended toward the sorts of things they had refused to wear much. To this day I raid mr h’s closet freely.
Thank you for the photos!
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: Her head is still on the neck, but the plastic is cracked.
Albatrossity
@stinger: Actually, my aunts Helen and Hazel sewed a lot of clothes for my sisters. My mom was a good cook and baker, but the stitchery was my aunts’ domain. They even made shirts for my brother and me occasionally. Dunno if I have many pictures of those, however.