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Christmas today can be exciting, but practically nothing beats the pleasure of a holidayBack in the 1970s. Pocket electronics was so new that children could barely believe their eyes when they found them under the tree on Christmas morning, people do not haveBum-rush the shopping center To get gifts for each other, and it was totally acceptable to serve essentially any food - sweet or tasty - Jell-o in the form of a crown and call it a holiday dish. And during most of theseChristmas traditions have been lost over time, they will always live in our hearts. Read it for all the reasons for Christmas in the 1970s (sorry,The children of the 80s andChildren of the 90s)

Of course, seeingTelevision advertising For the hottest toys can be the way today's children propose theirChristmas listsbut back in the 70s, nothing built of anticipation for Christmas as gettingA SEARS CATALOG in the mail. Go aboard the page after the page of dolls, trucks and other toys - and turn the most important so that your parents can identify non-negotiable objects - was almost as exciting as beginners on Christmas morning.

Those who wereBorn after the year 2000 Ask certainly more advanced toys to play with the children of the 70s could have imagined. Playing with an armstrong stretch - or even a pet, may seem lame for children today, but the creativity that came into play andtoys in the 70s Is something that no multiplayer game or pocket game system can approach the correspondence.

Children start today to enjoy tons of fun tips in their calendars of the Advent, they open doors that revealFrozen toys or earthenous. But in the 70s, opening these paper doors to reveal images of a scene of the Nativity - or your favorite cartoon character - was just as exciting.

The way outfire of Christmas was approaching in the 1970s? See your parents dust off this ceramic Christmas tree and set it display. Whether bought in a department store or done by your grandmother, seeing his little glowing lights on the table or the coat meant that Santa Claus was not far away!

Sure,A brown Christmas Charlie is always so beloved today that half a century ago, but forThe children of the 70sThe film was essentially new. Released in 1965, many people who have aged in the 1970s can always remember the excitement of seeing animated TV for the first time children - and practice their own Christmas dance to go.

There was nothing like spending hours to follow Simon's lighting habits without missing a beat. In many households after the release of the toy in 1978, whole Christmas mornings were spent on the success of this classical toy, trying to fight. It was one of the first pocket electronic devicesandIt was always family-oriented. What could be better?

Nintendo Switch?Pssh-The children of the 70s know that there will never beVideo game system As emblematic as the Atari. Finding this game system under the Christmas tree in the 70s officially meant that you had theThe most cool parents ever-And you'll go every day until new year's gamePong WhereTo burst.

While Ataris and Pet Rocks may have surmounted many Christmas lists of children in the 1970s, for parents, there was nothing to find a book fromMcDonald's Gift Certificatesin your storage. After all, what could be better than ordering these newly released McMuffins eggs and not paying a penny for them? And any child of the 70s still remembers to follow the head of littleCorey FeldmanIn this classical commercial Mickey d As they slipped a 50 cents McDonald gift certificate into the storage of their mother.

The greatest pleasure to know that Christmas was celebrated in space was fundamentally enough to blow the spirit of the 70s. And see photos of the tin can Christmas tree that astronautsGerald carr,William Pogue, andEdward Gibson introduced into space in 1973 It was like watching a sci-fi movie, play real-time for countless children obsessed with space.

In the 1970s, long before everyone pulls out of their phones to take pictures of their Christmas morning and post them on Instagram, these memories were captured in the old way: with a huge Polaroid camera . Was the movie scandalously expensive? Sure. Could so much a fingerprint ruins the photo? Absoutely. Was it always the culmination of many Christmas mornings to watch these snapshots develop? You have BETCHA.

Who knew that soda could make people so hot and fuzzy? For Christmas in 1977,Coca-Cola launched a Christmas version of its iconic "hill", in which the young people of countries around the world sing "I would like to teach the world to sing (in perfect harmony)." And this time, instead of holding coke bottles, they kept candles. There was nothing like everything like catching on television during the holiday season to give you serious feelings about humanity as a whole.

Follow the release ofA new hope In 1977, all those who saw the firstStars warsmovie died of dying of his hand on someStar warss toys. And, in a pre-internet era,'70Stars wars Fans I had to hope for a new hope - if you want their parents to control these toys, patchs, pins and catalog posters on time to sit there under the tree on Christmas morning.

Crowds on black Friday? WhatFOULASES OF FRIDAY BLACK? Long before people spend theirThanksgiving evenings Camping for the latest toys and electronic devices, Christmas shopping was a simpler activity. Instead of sleeping outside a better purchase or refreshing a website for new offers, the children of the 70s and their parents got their old-fashioned gifts: they went to the store-not even the shopping center-andpurchased Their gifts in person (maybe they even fear them, too). Then they brought them home without any injury to report. Like the classicSong The Theme of the 70s forAll in the familyreminds us: "These were the days."

WhileDepartment stores get closing Left and right nowadays, in the 1970s, they were always hubs for Christmas shopping. Many department stores would even put a show to their customers, decorating their windows with elaborate screens to attract windows to come inside. In fact, according toThe Washington PostNow-Deadly Washington, D.C. Department Store Woodward & Lothrop spent $ 200,000 each year on its vacation windows alone.

The 70s were something of an apogee point for Christmas music, the "wonderful Christmastime" wings toJohn Lennon AndYOKO ONO "Merry Christmas (the war is over)." But maybe no vacation album was as well-liked as the carpenters'Christmas portrait, filled with standards such as "Silent Night", "Jingle Bells" andKaren CarpenterSweet Sounding "Merry Christmas Darling."

Could you even call him Christmas in the 70s if your celebration did not include a kind of Jell-O molded concoction on the dinner table? For the greatest pleasure of many and the consternation of the other-jell-o "salads" were the greatest food food when it came to entertaining the holidays in the 1970s. In fact, in 1977Tought house tried and real recipes, there are recipes for not one, not two, but21 Celebrity salads in gelatin.

While environmentalists have called for the end of Tinsel for years in the 1970s, familiesdecorated their trees And the houses with things with wild abandonment. The scintillating material adorned with door areas to the sleeves. It was not important that you were shooting the shag carpet fiber stuff from your living room for months after the end of the holidays, it was the brilliant look of the holiday magic!

When is the last time a Christmas songYou left in stitches? Anyone who lived the 70s can recall the pure joy of the first time they heard "grandmother was headed by a reindeer," an air of sustainable novelty that struck the waves in 1979.

Look, we do not say that Fruitcake was particularly appetizing to watch. And if we are totally honest, it was not entirely nice, either. But the second you saw fruit cakes appearing in the windows of your local bakeries - or have seen your parents come out of candied fruit pots to make their own - there was no nie that the holidays in the 70s had arrived!

"Feliz Navidad" can always be a basic basis on radio stations during the holiday season, but many children from the 70s can remind the José Feliciano Struck for the first time. And, of course, the popularity of the song of 1970 has led to many people who did not speak to lick Spanish, suddenly knowing how to properly wish the other a merry Christmas (from the bottom of their hearts).