Tucked away on a quiet neighborhood road is a little piece of Raleigh Christmas history dating back to the 1960s. If you lived in Raleigh in those years, you might recognize the mysterious miniature ...
Christmas came early for one Texas great-grandfather, whose wish was to hear the holiday song he wrote in the 1960s finally make its debut on the radio. Back in 1965, Johnny Gondesen wrote the catchy ...
Today you can listen to whatever you want on Apple Music or Spotify, but back in the 1960s, your Christmas music was on the radio or on vinyl. It seems unlikely today, but Goodyear and Firestone sold ...
I spent most of my childhood in the 1960s. We listened to a new British band who sang with a different accent — the Beatles. From there we moved to rock in my early teens. We watched black and white ...
"Those magic days before Christmas... days full of great anticipation. We discovered that there is as much joy in giving as receiving." Christmas began for me, as a child, when the Christmas annuals ...
This collection of images shows the iconic and thoroughly retro Christmas displays of Callers, a large furniture store on Newcastle's Northumberland Street. The images were taken in the 1960s and are ...
November 1960 and signs of the season were beginning to surface around town. On November 10th Parks and Recreation Department strung lights along Laurel Avenue. They would be turned on the day after ...
I belong to Christmases where kids only had two ninongs, or ninangs, as the case may be. There was one ninong for baptism, and another for confirmation. And that was it. My baptismal ninong passed on ...
Johnny Gondesen got to play a live version of "Christmas Is Here" on a radio station in Houston on Dec. 4 Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for PEOPLE Digital. She has been with ...