{"id":92553,"date":"2016-12-23T17:17:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T22:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/?p=92553"},"modified":"2021-12-15T01:01:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T06:01:21","slug":"midcentury-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/midcentury-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Nostalgic for Christmas in the Booming Mid-Century Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_262503\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/slim-aarons-christmas-swim\/id-a_1331333\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-262503\" class=\"wp-image-262503\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/51220667_CHRISTMAS_SWIM_l.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Swim Hollywood, 1954, by Slim Aarons\" width=\"580\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/51220667_CHRISTMAS_SWIM_l.jpg 611w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/51220667_CHRISTMAS_SWIM_l-278x350.jpg 278w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/51220667_CHRISTMAS_SWIM_l-95x120.jpg 95w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-262503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/slim-aarons-christmas-swim\/id-a_1331333\/\"><em>Christmas Swim<\/em>, 1954, by Slim Aarons<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In her delightful and illuminating book <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/sarah-archer.com\/books\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Midcentury Christmas: Holiday Fads, Fancies and Fun from 1945 to 1970<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Countryman Press), Sarah Archer recalls a time in the United States when Christmas was truly great: factory workers were comfortably middle class, tidy new tract houses were in the reach of most families and brightly wrapped presents of Barbies, Slinkys and Silly Putty were plentiful under shiny aluminum Christmas trees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_92673\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92673\" class=\"wp-image-92673 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/pg108.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/pg108.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/pg108-255x350.jpg 255w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/pg108-87x120.jpg 87w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-92673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tinsel-draped doorway in the December 1961 issue of <em>House Beautiful<\/em>. Photo courtesy of Hearst Communications, Inc.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, those were the postwar years of the American Dream, when the country enjoyed unrivaled prosperity from a booming economy, as well as what now seems an almost unimaginable social cohesion, cemented by an exuberant domestic consumerism of new GE fridges, Zenith TVs and Chevy Impalas. <\/span>They were also the years of the Cold War, when the threat of an armed Soviet conflict intensified the urge to cocoon with one\u2019s nuclear family in suburban comfort. And they arrived after the successive national traumas of the Great Depression and World War II, periods when Americans were forced to scrimp and save and were grateful for any kind of roof at all.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_92713\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92713\" class=\"wp-image-92713 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/pg174.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/pg174.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/pg174-253x350.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/pg174-87x120.jpg 87w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-92713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children check out Cold War\u2013themed toys in an Anton Kovarsky illustration on the December 9, 1961, cover of the <em>New Yorker<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an encapsulated history of Christmas, Archer explains how its traditions can be traced back to ancient Roman times when the god Saturn was celebrated through playful role reversals, joke gifts and acts of charity. Early Christians tried to transform the holiday into a pious commemoration of Christ\u2019s birth, but with limited success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The author slyly notes how the festive season\u2019s transformation into the sentimental family holiday we know today began in earnest in New York, in 1837, after Clement Clarke Moore cleverly scribed his famous poem \u201cA Visit from St. Nicholas,\u201d more commonly known as \u201cThe Night Before Christmas.\u201d A brilliant use of media to advance establishment and commercial interests, Moore\u2019s charmingly illustrated verse instilled notions of folksy warmth and good feelings among city-dwellers, when the disparities between the haves and have-nots were at a new and worrying high.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_109833\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109833\" class=\"wp-image-109833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Leyendecker_2904_high_res_l.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Leyendecker_2904_high_res_l.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Leyendecker_2904_high_res_l-274x350.jpg 274w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Leyendecker_2904_high_res_l-94x120.jpg 94w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-109833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/paintings\/figurative-paintings\/id-a_1548423\/\"><em>Christmas Peek, Saturday Evening Post Cover<\/em>, 1939, J.C. Leyendecker<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>This was also a time, writes Archer, when \u201cthe rise of print advertising, increasing newspaper and magazine circulations and the ability of department stores all over the country to stock goods from the coasts meant the whole population was now participating in a nationwide ritual of retail.\u201d By transforming the austere Saint Nicholas, known in Europe for secret gift-giving among the faithful, into the jovial peddler St. Nick, bringing his bundle of toys to well-behaved children, Moore was helping to inspire a cult of seasonal shopping, not just for gift-giving but for domestic adornment.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eleven decades later, in the mid-20th century, media and retail partnered again on a new promotion of the pairing of Christmas and commerce with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miracle on 34th Street<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a tale about a little girl getting a suburban house and a new family through the ministrations of Kris Kringle, the pretend Santa at Macy\u2019s, who turns out to be real.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_92743\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92743\" class=\"wp-image-92743 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/pg59.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/pg59.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/pg59-256x350.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/pg59-88x120.jpg 88w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-92743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A happy family was photographed decorating a tree for the December 1963 issue of <em>House Beautiful<\/em>. Photo courtesy of Hearst Communications, Inc.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indeed, Archer\u2019s book is a revelation as to what an industry Christmas has become since Moore\u2019s poem. In the early 1890s, the American retail mogul R.F. Woolworth began importing the colored glass balls with which Germans decorated their \u201ctannenbaums\u201d and was soon making $25 million a year from their sale, which in today\u2019s dollars would be nearly $700 million! By the late 1930s, concerns over a potential war with Germany resulted in the Woolworth\u2019s enticing the glass manufacturer Corning into producing the ornaments. Using the sophisticated \u201cribbon machines\u201d with which it manufactured light bulbs, the company produced the first American-made glass baubles in 1939. After an initial production run of 235,000 which Woolworth\u2019s funded, in 1940, Corning upped its production substantially, with Woolworth\u2019s selling 45 million for just a few cents each. <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_92763\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92763\" class=\"wp-image-92763 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/pg131-1.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/pg131-1.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/pg131-1-223x350.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/pg131-1-76x120.jpg 76w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-92763\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A holiday card sent out by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/william-pahlmann\/\">interior designer William Pahlmann<\/a> in the mid-1950s. Photo courtesy of the William Pahlmann Associate Records, Hagley Museum and Library<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Decorating Christmas trees was big business. In 1927, General Electric offered the first outdoor Christmas lights, but they weren\u2019t that dependable or long lasting. By the end of the 1940s, however, the company significantly improved the technology and began aggressively marketing the bulbs by producing handbooks on holiday decorating and sponsoring outdoor lighting contests. The effort paid off. By 1953, 300 million sets of Christmas lights had been sold to the country\u2019s 44 million households, making these electric decorations what today would be a nearly billion-dollar industry. Christmas, it seems, helped fund the American Dream. <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_92773\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92773\" class=\"wp-image-92773 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/pg61.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/pg61.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/pg61-295x350.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/pg61-101x120.jpg 101w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-92773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Christmas tree covered in faux snow brings a festive flair to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/style\/mid-century-modern\/\">mid-century modern<\/a> living room published in the December 1961 issue of <em>House Beautiful<\/em>. 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