The Great Toy Robbery

The Great Toy Robbery, Jeff Hale, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 18, 2019 - Comments (1)
Category: Crime, Holidays, Cartoons, 1960s

Miss Christmas Tree 1951

Selected 'Miss Christmas Tree of 1951' by 40 members of the UCLA chapter, Sigma Chi fraternity, is 24-year-old Diane Dearborn. Miss Dearborn, who arrived in the United States seven weeks ago from Paris, France, is a singer. The collegians saw her picture in a newspaper, reported 'she seemed prettier that the rest of them'.

Source.

Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 16, 2019 - Comments (3)
Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Holidays, 1950s

Happy New Year 2019

All the best for a happy and healthy New Year from Alex, Paul and our partners!

Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 01, 2019 - Comments (2)
Category: Holidays, Alex, Paul

Merry Christmas 2018!

Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 25, 2018 - Comments (1)
Category: Animals, Holidays, Music, 1950s

Christmas Cracker

The first item is okay if bland, but the next two are fairly weird.

Christmas Cracker, Jeff Hale, Norman McLaren, Grant Munro & Gerald Potterton, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 24, 2018 - Comments (3)
Category: Holidays, Cartoons, Stop-motion Animation, 1960s

The girl who inhaled a Christmas tree

Fort Myers News-Press - Dec 17, 1995

Posted By: Alex - Sun Dec 09, 2018 - Comments (5)
Category: Holidays, 1990s

The year of multiple Thanksgivings

Thanksgiving used to be celebrated on the final Thursday in November until 1939, when President Roosevelt decided to move it back a week in order to help retailers by lengthening the pre-Christmas shopping season. Not everyone was happy with this decision. As wikipedia notes:


So Governor Lee O'Daniel declared that Texas would celebrate 2 official days of Thanksgiving, but some parts of the state weren't satisfied with that. The city of Monahans decided they were going to have 3 Thanksgivings: on the 16th, 23rd, and 30th. Then Harlingen, Texas upped the ante by declaring they were going to have a full 8 days of Thanksgiving. They designated every day from the 23rd to the 30th as an official day of Thanksgiving.

That sounds like a swell idea to me. A full week of gluttony!

Arizona Republic - Nov 2, 1939

Warren Times Monitor - Nov 16, 1939

McAllen Monitor - Nov 19, 1939

Posted By: Alex - Thu Nov 22, 2018 - Comments (1)
Category: Holidays, Thanksgiving, 1930s

Happy Thanksgiving 2018!

Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 22, 2018 - Comments (1)
Category: Holidays, Thanksgiving

Have a Slothful Halloween!

Maybe it's not to late to have Karoline Hinz craft one of these for your trick-or-treating.

Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 10, 2018 - Comments (0)
Category: Animals, Costumes and Masks, Holidays

Happy July 4th 2018!

May all WU-vies have a fun and safe holiday!

Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 04, 2018 - Comments (6)
Category: Destruction, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Explosives, Fairs, Amusement Parks, and Resorts, Family, Fireworks and Pyrotechnics, Food, Holidays