Imagine, if you will, a film reel in your mind, spinning merrily around, giving you glimpses of every Christmas Day in your life to date. So, would that film be popcorn-worthy, perhaps a bucketful, oozing with hot butter and sprinkled with salt?
I hope you would be smiling and, if you were crying, hopefully it was because you were experiencing a flood of happy memories.
Reliving some of my memories right here in my blog.
Over the years, in my various “Stir the Memory Pot at Christmastime” blog posts, I’ve flashed back to long-ago Christmasses, while sharing photos of me clutching a new dolly as a child, to later years, where my image was captured in that same-old perpetual pose, touching the Christmas tree, thus marking the passage of another year’s time.
My parents never owned a movie camera to capture their only child’s Christmas morning wonderment, but that’s okay because they were keen on taking lots of photos, thus affording me a precious peek into my past, at Christmastime, or otherwise.
As mentioned previously, my parents encouraged me to find my creative passion, be it through music, art or photography. I’ll admit that learning to play the accordion was my father’s idea, not mine. I took lessons from age seven to ten, we had recitals and I practiced every day. After we moved to the States in 1966, the lessons ended as no accordion teachers could be found.
But, when I expressed an interest in learning to play the guitar after the guys in the Y&R Creative Department ad agency where I worked jammed with their folk guitars in between grinding out Chrysler and Plymouth ads, at Christmas 1979 I became the proud owner of a folk guitar. I took lessons for a while, but that guitar, long out of tune, languishes in the basement collecting dust, along with other hobbies I set aside through the years.
Best. Gift. Ever.
As for picking a favorite Christmas gift, if my happy face was any indication, the Betsy Wetsy baby doll I coveted and asked Santa to bring, would be right up at the top of the list, as would my Barbie doll in her shiny black case, but, as I got older and left dolls in the dust, something else piqued my interest.
It all started when Mom gifted me HER Baby Brownie camera. It was not a gift wrapped up with a bow, nor at Christmastime – she merely handed the camera to me and said “it’s yours now Linda.”
Used with permission: Photographer John Broomfield/Museums Victoria
Mom had used the Baby Brownie for years and said she now deemed me mature enough to take care of it and, if I wasn’t reckless by taking unnecessary photos, my parents would pay for developing the film.
Here is a photo of me holding the camera, several years later, pictured with Mom and Nanny in 1969. My grandmother, newly widowed, spent that Summer at our house. Yes, at age 13, I towered over them. 🙂
As the saying goes “all good things must come to an end” and sadly, after years of being the Kodak workhorse that it always was, the Baby Brownie began to falter. I now wish I had kept it as a special keepsake, but I did not.
The Baby Brownie camera’s end of life did not end my fascination with picture-taking and my parents continued to cultivate that budding interest in photography.
The Kodak Instamatic Camera.
Because Kodak was the gold standard for easy-to-use cameras, I was given a Kodak Instamatic Camera that year for Christmas. If you’re of a certain age, you probably remember that boxy-looking camera and the Sylvania Blue Dot Magic Flash Cubes required for taking photos in low-light situations. The flash would go off and blue dots and a bright light made your eyes go wacky for a while.
While this camera worked well, the flash cubes, film and developing (via mail), which was still subsidized by my parents, became a costly venture, so, still another Christmas present a year or two later, was the Polaroid Swinger.
Meet the Swinger (the camera that is).
This camera’s TV ads touted the ease of instant picture-taking and had a catchy jingle,“Meet the Swinger, Polaroid Swinger”. It was great to skip the hassle/cost of photo development, plus it was fun to watch a photo emerge from the camera instantaneously. However, the liquid preservative brushed onto the photo afterward smelled like nail polish remover, so I was relegated to using it in the basement (“far away from the furnace Linda!”) The finished photograph’s colors seemed unnatural.
Here is a photo of me taken Christmas Day that year with the Polaroid Swinger.
Mom and Dad were not deterred by these camera/photography hiccups, so there would be a few more cameras through the years, always arriving as Christmas presents.
The Kodak Pocket Camera.
My Kodak Pocket Instamatic Camera had a built-in flash, thus eliminating the pesky flashcubes and red eyes. This little camera really promoted my interest in capturing every image I could and I had it for many years. Because my shutter-happy self was now working, I could afford to pay for photography expenses. Even after I got my 35mm camera, I continued to tote along the pocket camera as a back-up camera, since it was compact enough to tuck it into a pocket, purse or carry it in a pouch on my belt. That little camera gave me lots of joy and I was sad to finally say goodbye to it after the film door became loose allowing light into the camera.
Here I was in 1979, on a trip to England with my parents, on the River Thames, holding onto that trusty Kodak Pocket Camera.
I had to buy a cassette player for my college journalism classes in conjunction with “reporting” on the various “beats” I was assigned the last semester of my curriculum. So, in the late 70s, I began recording Christmas morning while opening our gifts, both at home and when we celebrated at my grandmother’s house. I still have those cassette tapes, but I’ve not listened to them since the last recording done in 1985.
Clearly, I am a saver, not a thrower and, admittedly the house needs decluttering, but what do you toss versus what do you keep? The basement contains a treasure trove of memories spanning over a half century.
I ventured briefly into “filmmaking” too.
For Christmas 1978, Mom and Dad bought me a movie camera, but I only used it a few times, Christmas Day (as usual) and I filmed my Creative Department coworkers at Young & Rubicam. I hope to find those reels one day and have them converted to a format to view them.
At Christmas 1980 I upgraded to a 35mm camera.
My father used a 35mm Leica he brought with him when he emigrated from Germany in 1950, but I don’t know what happened to that camera. His photographic efforts weren’t great. Mom and I were always off-center and after I was taller than Mom, most times I was missing my head or part of it.
After booking a Greece land tour/Greek Islands cruise for 1981, my parents bought me a Canon AE-1 35mm camera, along with a photography class. I was lucky because our American Express tour guide for this entire tour/cruise, Antony Sofianos, had the same camera as me, so he gave me lots of pointers. Antony often took photos of me using my camera during that two-week trip. Here we asked another tour member to get a photo of the two of us, Antony with his camera in tow, in front of the oldest olive tree in the world.
New camera lenses followed for birthday and/or Christmas presents, adding to my photography gear and soon, unlike the ease of the compact pocket camera, suddenly I found myself laden down with the camera and lens cases …
… and eventually hauling a flash, filters, extra film, a notebook to jot down where I’d taken photos and emergency photography “rain gear” so I was soon lugging around a big camera case and my trusty pocket camera always attached to my hip.
Some of my favorite photos were taken by the ship’s photographer who accompanied the Panama Canal cruise land tours. He took these two photos in the San Blas Islands, the first, laden down as usual with camera equipment. It was a stinkin’ hot day, with no breeze and I felt like I’d melt.
Life situations intervened and my last big trip was in 1983 to four Scandinavian countries and the U.S.S.R. I put the 35mm camera aside and returned to using the pocket camera until it broke and I bought my first compact digital camera.
A few months ago I went to the basement to take pictures of some of my prior hobbies, not just art supplies from a half-century ago, but also once-treasured gifts, like the aforementioned 35mm camera and guitar. I felt sad to find the 35mm camera’s leather case cracked and in disrepair. I took its photo and poked it back into the movie camera’s case where I had stored it all those years ago, thinking silica gel and two camera cases would keep it “camera-ready” for any future trips. Sadly I was mistaken, but who knew digital cameras and/or phones would become our go-to for capturing images?
The camera is pictured next to the guitar case and an old Autumn door wreath.
I stood there looking at these once-loved and coveted gifts, feeling I had somehow disrespected them, not to mention their givers.
There were also small gifts that were dear to me ….
Yes, there were other gifts along the way that were just as meaningful, some items I still have and continue to hold dear to my heart.
Then there was the farm set that I (finally) got for Christmas at age 26. This gift was a joke of sorts, because as a young girl, I asked Santa for a toy farm set one year. I had visited a family member’s farm where I got my pet rabbit “Scratch” and was enamored with the barnyard animals. Admittedly, toys in the 50s or 60s were more gender specific, i.e. girls played with baby dolls, boys with trucks and GI Joes, so it was suggested to me nicely that “little girls don’t play with farm sets” … but, lo and behold, for Christmas 1982, there was a small package under the tree with this note on Christmas stationery inside …
I remember wondering as I walked down the basement stairs what that gift could be. I was convinced it was a movie projector or screen, even though the movie camera had little mileage on it, so it must be something else for the 35mm camera since it was apparently fragile. But, it was that farm set, cleverly disguised, so I wouldn’t have jiggled the package and guessed what it was.
Yes, I saved the Christmas note Mom wrote, but why no photo of the farm set? Because my father immediately misappropriated the entire gift to use for a tank diorama he was building, his hobby.
Fast forward to Christmas 2025 ….
Speaking of gifts with multiple pieces, I bought a fun early Christmas gift for myself, an Advent jigsaw puzzle of dogs dressed in festive holiday wear. There are different types of Advent jigsaw puzzles – some are for 12 days, some 24 days and others you have a “master puzzle” and add new pieces to it every day for 24 days. I opted for doing a new, 50-piece mini-puzzle daily for 24 days.
My mom was an avid jigsaw puzzler for many years and I saved some puzzles she completed that I liked, plus others she unfortunately never got to work on. Some look very difficult and I don’t have a dedicated spot to do puzzles … maybe after I declutter the house, my #1 New Year’s resolution for 2026. In the interim, this five-inch daily mini-puzzle was perfect for me.
I emBARKED on my puzzling journey of “Christmas Paws” on December 1st …
… and this was puzzle #1.
Each puzzle takes about 15-20 minutes to complete, which is not too RUFF and yes, they are DOGgone fun.
My Christmas Eve Wordless Wednesday post will be a slideshow of all 24 completed pup puzzles, which I will entitle “Christmas Pupapalooza”, so stay tuned.
Here’s a picture of my own pup, Peppy, on Christmas Day 1964 …
… I even turned that 50-year old photo into a vintage-looking Christmas card in 2014.
I’ll leave you with this Christmas card with a special message about gifts tucked inside – just click here.
Terri’s Challenge this week is Winter Wonderland/Solstice, but I wanted to do my annual Christmas memories post, so I will join her Challenges again on January 4th as she has no Challenges next week.
Linda Schaub
WALKIN', WRITIN', WIT & WHIMSY 
and I thought I had a lot of cameras 😂 Great photos and memories Linda
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I guess we are two of a kind Brian! I’m glad you liked the photos and the memories. It is always fun to reminisce.
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You have a lot of wonderful memories and old photos. My family does not have a lot of old photos. I spoke to my mother about this. She is not a sentimental person. Did not keep these things. I remember when my grandfather gave me his Leica camera, that was a big deal. I miss the days of the old cameras. Now, most of us use our phones for photos, it’s so fast, easy and the photos come out well. It’s fun to be a photographer, isn’t it, capturing beauty and special moments. Look forward to your Wednesday post.
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I love writing about memories and using old photographs and I do have quite a collection of photos and other memorabilia I’ve saved through the years. Even though I want to declutter, I have to dedicate some space to the items I want to keep. I digitized all the photo albums, family and trips, plus most of my scrapbooks over Thanksgiving weekend 2017. It took that entire long holiday weekend and then I went back this year and dug through the scrapbooks again as I wanted some odds and ends I didn’t scan the first time and spent an entire day doing them. Phones are so much quicker – instant gratification to see what you’ve captured. Two more puzzles now. I’m debating if I should do the 23rd and 24th tomorrow so I’m not messing with the slideshow in the wee hours of the 24th. Besides, I might get in Santa’s way when he stops by. 🙂
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A nice journey through the years. Your basement must be a wonderland for that! My first camera was my brother’s old brownie! The first one I bought was a Pentamatic 35MM SLR sometime in the 70s. Which was upgraded by simpler easier cameras over the years. The lens opening on my Canon broke so now I’m using my cell. The pictures aren’t bad. There was a time I developed and printed my own film. It was part of a college class. Some of my work was exhibited but those days are gone. Now I take pics of my cats! 🙂
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Kate, what a coincidence we both used a Baby Brownie because some people never heard of them. Like anything Kodak, it was a workhorse. I have never used manual settings, only automatic, for the SLR, nor the DSLR, despite taking that class and buying “Dummies” books to learn. I spent an entire day studying the book, went out and came home with over-exposed or under-exposed photos, so I said “that’s it!” That’s exciting that you developed and printed your own film; I’ve never done anything like that. I entered a photo contest for Maupintour, after the Scandinavian/USSR trip and won for two of my photos – you were supposed to submit photos that are representative of the country. I was surprised as one of them was a cow in a pasture near a Swedish house and it won first prize! It was not in an exhibition, but you signed off they could use it in a brochure. On that trip, after lugging around all that equipment, there was a very nice couple from Texas and he kept teasing me about how he had one of the first compact cameras which had picture quality equivalent to a 35mm camera and he carried it around in his pocket. We took photos of each other and exchanged them after the trip and their pictures just as good as any with the big camera. I sure was not going to tell my parents that after they were buying this equipment. You get lots of practice with the cats!
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I really enjoyed reading about your camera journey, Linda! I had to chuckle at your ever-increasing progression of photo bags attached to you on your trips! Wonderful Christmas memories over the years, my friend!
I got a Polaroid swinger for Christmas one year as a teen, but only took a few pics due to having to pay for the film and developing. I can’t even remember what camera I used between then and 2000 when I used a digital camera from work. That was a game changer.
Your advent puzzles look fun and doable. Wishing you a relaxing Christmas and a chance to walk!
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Thank you Terri! It is always fun to write these Christmas posts about memories and having photos to go along with them is good too. That Polaroid Swinger was fun but it was expensive for film … that might have prompted my parents to get a different type of camera, since they had been willing to subsidize that little hobby, but the picture quality was a little iffy. I wrote a funny post once about digital cameras. I bought my first Canon digital compact in 2010 and it had 4X zoom. My friend/neighbor and I went to a park in 2015 and she was driving through the park and stopped and handed me her camera to take a picture of some geese, which I did and I took the same pictures with my camera. We took several sets of photos that day as she stopped the car, etc. When I got home I was eager to see my photos and she sent me hers. Hers were so much clearer as she has 12X zoom. I knew nothing about zoom lens on compact digital cameras then and, even though I am not a frivolous person, I went out and bought a 12X zoom camera, which I have to this day and take many of my photos with it. At least I know I’ll come home with all the pictures I actually took. I wrote that I had “Zoom Envy”. 🙂
The puzzle has been fun and doable … next year’s Advent puzzles are 100 pieces each and there are 12 of them. Thank you – the weather will be milder. Enjoy your holidays and family!
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Love the vintage Christmas card, Linda. And speaking of vintage, I hadn’t thought about flash bulbs in decades. I can remember how one of my first cameras advanced the film and the flash cube at the same time. Am I right that the cubes were one-time use (i.e. four flashes to a cube)? Man, talk about the old days. Your chronology of cameras and amateur photography also has me wondering if you ever considered making a career of it.
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Thank you Dave – I decided it would be fun to use that picture of Peppy and me one half century after it was taken and create a vintage-looking Christmas card. Yes, there were four shots on each flash cube and you got a strip of cubes in a package as I recall. Your eyes really saw spots when those flashcubes went off and the subjects often had red eyes! No, I never thought about becoming a photographer, but it would have been fun, especially since I have a B.A. in Mass Communications/print journalism, so it would have been an exciting career to be a photojournalist. Despite taking the photography classes for using the 35mm camera then and using a DSLR now, I have never used manual settings for any photograph I’ve taken. I even bought books on how to use manual settings, but it is so much easier to shoot on “automatic” that I’ve just gone the easy route. So, if my shots are good, it is pure luck!
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Ansel Adams would of been proud of you Linda! You were better equipped than I was!
Photography has made huge advances since then!
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Thank you Wayne! I knew you, the photographer, would find this post fun. It was a long journey to get to where we are today photography-wise. The old-time photographers would have no concept of what cameras and devices would be way down the road. They’d probably scoff at the cameras we use today, having spent years honing their craft and going through a lot of trouble to do so. I remember learning about Matthew Brady back in journalism school, one of the first famous photographers and all the paraphernalia he used to photograph celebrities like presidents, etc. No wonder everyone in the photographs looked so disgruntled or bored back then … they had to wait too long for their photo to be taken!
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The card is so cute. I noticed those dolls, I forget the name, they stack inside themselves and get smaller. My parents got me one at Expo ’67 and I still have it.
I laughed about your Dad’s photographic efforts and cutting parts of your head off! I remember all those cameras, or most of them anyhow. It’s fun and sad to go through memories sometimes. I always get nostalgic around this time of year.
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Thank you Susan! I thought it would be fun to jump ahead 50 years using the original photo. I think the vintage-looking Santa made it look good. I also took a B&W photo of me as a baby with Santa and turned into a Christmas card a few years earlier. I remember Expo 67 … it was the year after we moved here and we were visiting my grandmother and everyone was talking about it. I know the nesting dolls and Googled what I thought was the name as I couldn’t spell it to save my life: Matryoshka dolls. I did get a set of them when we visited U.S.S.R. and also I saved some currency as it was so unique. My father usually cut off my head or part of my body with that Leica camera. I’m amazed he got the picture of my mom, grandmother and me in without my head being cut off or me out of the photo as I was so much taller than them. Even the photo of Peppy and me, part of my left arm was missing, but that silver tree and Peppy were there. 🙂 Yes, I get nostalgic this time of year too, especially now that I have digitized all those pictures, so a few mouse clicks and I am transported back there.
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All my moves up until my late 20s really necessitated getting rid of things. Sometimes I wish I had that basement of old treasures you have. My first camera was a toy, really. Took 1” square pictures. On one of our cross-country moves, it was in a box with crayons and a chocolate Easter bunny. Sun through the car window meted everything together—what a mess! Next a couple of Kodak instamatics. Then I got my first 35mm as a hand-me-down from Dad. It was not an SLR, but had an excellent Argus fixed lens. Split-image viewfinder and weird settings. But I learned to take great pictures with it. I do wish I had kept it when it quit working. Got a couple other 35 mm used cameras before going digital. I don’t miss messing with film!
Have a very Merry Christmas, Linda! I’ll look for your pup puzzles on Wednesday.
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Eilene – I know I have bigtime clutter in my house because I’m a “saver” not a “thrower” and I hate to part with memories. A few years ago when I got all-house insulation, they made such a mess in the basement, I had to move everything and got rid of some things and I actually did a post on the treasures I got rid off, some hobbies I had given up and the paraphernalia, like ballet shoes. I took ballet as an adult for exercise and poise.
That’s a shame about your first camera. I was heartbroken when the Baby Brownie no longer worked. I have taken photography classes and bought books on how to use the 35mm and the DSLR manually, but always shoot on automatic setting, rather than come home with a card full of duds, which I did once. Now it is automatic everything, so any good shots are lucky shots thanks to the camera. I actually do better with my digital compact with 12X zoom that I’ve had for ten years.
Thank you Eilene – same to you! I have had fun with the puzzles and at the same time I got this Advent puzzle, I bought next year’s Advent puzzle, 12 days of 100-piece puzzles.
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I took movie pictures every month of both the kids for the first year and every 6 months after. After they were teenagers I took all the reels and had the spliced together with country music and turned into a VHS tape. Now I have no way to watch them without a player. Lol You look so pretty in your pictures and how lucky to see so many sites! I’m glad you were able to finish the puzzles too.
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I forgot to say how cute the card is too.
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Thank you – I thought it would be fun to do that 50 years after the photo was taken. I did my B&W picture with Santa when I was a baby as a Christmas card one year too.
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That’s great that you made all the movies of the kids … what a nice remembrance for them. That’s a shame they are all on VHS tapes though, but you can have those tapes converted. I know Walgreens does it but they send it away. If it were me, I’d go with “Legacy Box” (legacyboxdotcom). They advertise on my radio station all the time and have big sales, like 40% off. They send you a box, you put the tapes in and they convert them for you and return the originals. They advertise for tapes, home movies and photographs. They digitize photos. I’d do that – precious memories for you Diane. Thank you – a long time ago now, the last photo was taken in 1982. I have two more puzzles to do, the 23rd and 24th, but since my post comes out at 5:00 a.m., Wednesday, I’m not sure I want to stay up until midnight on the 24th, then prepare the slideshow in the middle of the night. Besides Santa may be trying to drop off stuff and I’m in his way!
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That was a great post Linda….and I liked seeing all the pictures of you with your clothes and hairstyles. I remember most of those cameras. I still have my mothers Brownie camera, but I don’t know if it is a baby brownie? It’s in a box somewhere down in the basement, along with her camera that printed the photos instantly, and a few other film nes. I figured I would donate them to a museum someday. I do remember the 4 sided flash cubes too. I never had an expensive 35mm camera, but went straight from film to a digital. My (cheaper) Samsung cell phone doesn’t take great pictures….I liked my old Samsung better.
Re the farm set – my younger brother had one and we had great fun with it. My dad built the barn from scratch, with a hinged roof you could partially open up. He painted it white with a green roof and I remember seeing him working on it down in the basement a few nights before Christmas in a rush to get it done, as my brother still believed in Santa so he couldn’t work on it until he went to bed. I still have all the animals in the toybox in my basement. My nephews played with them too when they were little. I saw a John Deere barn, fence and play set, and a Fisher Price one, in the Home Hardware toy catalogue this year but when I asked they were all sold out in the warehouse, but this is a rural community.
You and your parents traveled a lot! But you look weighted down with camera gear! You should have been a photojournalist!
I was aware of the Advent jigsaw puzzles as another blogger had posted about them, but I’m like you I really have nowhere to put them right now and jigsaw puzzles remind me of mom at this nostalgic time of year. We must have done hundreds of them together in the last few years of her life.
I had a guitar too, for a few short months, but as I couldn’t seem to learn to read music, it was soon given away. I think we all thought we would be folk singers!
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Thank you Joni – I’m glad you liked this post. I like to do a once-a-year Christmas memory meander and this one was fun to put together.
I traveled to Germany with my father in August 1969, the same year my grandmother visited for the Summer. She enjoyed time spent away from home and came back several more times. My father had not been back to Germany since leaving there in 1950. So, I was just 13 and it wasn’t too much fun for me as I didn’t speak German and no one spoke English but my father and he was busy with others most of the time. He wanted my mother to meet his aunt and uncle, so we went to England for a week, then to Germany and the five of went to Austria together.
That’s something you still have your mom’s own cameras. Now there’s a topic you could write about … dig them out and take pictures of them especially if you have photos your mom took with any of the cameras. My mom would have turned 100 next Valentine’s Day, so I will be doing a post about her and I have some vintage pictures. They had a posed picture taken, her and my grandfather, holding her as a baby and it is in good condition. The sepia-toned pics of her on a rug are a little tattered, but I will use them anyway.
In one of Dave’s recent posts about the Trevi fountain, I commented about my Advent puzzles I was doing and Dave replied he was doing an Advent Nativity scene puzzle, the same as a blogger he followed and sent me the link to that post. Their puzzle is a “master puzzle” so they complete a mini puzzle daily and insert it into the big puzzle. I was at the grocery store in October and a lot of puzzles were stacked on the endcaps and all on sale. I had never heard of an Advent jigsaw puzzle before. So I got this one and another one for next year but that one is only 12 days of puzzles and each puzzle is 100 pieces. It’s the first time I’ve done a puzzle on my own, but my mom and worked on a few puzzles, in the past, but not on a regular basis. My mom loved doing jigsaw puzzles and I saved about five or six she already did, downstairs in Rubbermaid tubs, plus I have about 20+ she didn’t get to yet. I have the puzzle board she used, but it is bigger than the table I use for painting and I don’t have room for another table. I can see how it would be difficult right now to work on a puzzle, especially this time of year.
I like the idea of the farm set your dad built for your brother – what a special and thoughtful gift that was and something to keep forever. My grandmother grew up on a farm and all her brothers ended up getting a small farm near their parents. We went to visit one of them. I was only allowed to put two gifts on my Santa list and that was one “wish” but my parents weren’t thrilled about that. My father built scenes of tanks on battlefields, but also going through rural areas, like a farm setting and he took all of the farm set for his own use. I should have said no, but I didn’t, but was mad. I’m glad I kept the note.
I took guitar lessons but the teacher was just a young guy who had a band and the hour-long lesson was tuning the guitar and him telling me about the band’s recent gigs and not much got accomplished. I tried to teach myself guitar but we never had music or a book … now, I could learn online.
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Such a great post, chock full of fabulous memories. I love your story about the farm set. I also remember when camera gear took up so much room. Now, I often just take my cell phone when traveling. It doesn’t take as good pictures as a DSLR but it is so much more convenient.
Have a wonderful Christmas, Linda!
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What a wonderful post, Linda. No wonder you take such great pictures; you have many years of practice.
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