Christmas 1983 - Mom and Dad

All those years ago.

Christmas 1983 - The Tree

It was very rare for us to have a long needled tree. Although they are very pretty I prefer the shorter needled ones. I find it easier to hang ornaments from them.

Christmas 1983 - Sam, Joe and Pete

Sam, Joe and Pete

Christmas 1983 - Joe, Pete and Sam

Joe, Pete and Sam

I believe the original of this picture was taken with a Polaroid instant camera and that this is a color photo copy that Mom made when she was making photo albums for the three of us. As Polaroids didn't have a negative, copies had to be made so Mom could have one for each of our photo books.

Christmas 1983 - Grandma Jean's Tree

Here's another photo, this one from 1983, of one of Grandma Jean's trees. The photo was taken at the house of Grandma Jean and Grandpa Les in Two Harbors.

A Christmas Story - 100th Post

Way back in 1983 during Christmas break my brother Sam and I hiked over to the Boulevard Theater on Lyndale Avenue to go see A Christmas Story. The Boulevard was a second run theater and it only cost 99 cents to get in. I had seen a review for this movie on Siskal and Ebert and thought it looked intriguing. Sam and I roared with laughter through the movie but after this initial viewing I never heard about it again. During one Thanksgiving in the mid-90s ('94 or '95) Dale and I were visiting Brenda and Irv for Thanksgiving and I came across the movie on cable TV. Whatever channel was showing it was doing a 24 hour marathon. I called Dale's attention to it and he had never heard of it before. He fell in love with it so we purchased a copy and have been watching it every year since.