A blast from Xmas past.

I watched this series on the History Channel this week about Christmas through the years - 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. I of course enjoyed the 70s and 80s episodes the most, since those were my formative Christmases, with the following memorable highlights:

• Sesame Street Christmas
• Cabbage Patch Kids
• Nintendo/Atari
• Christmas Vacation/A Christmas Story
• Sears catalog
• Easy Bake Oven
• Walkman

Seems like toys/toy commercials were so much more popular in the 80s - I guess because we didn't all have computers. Although I distinctly remember getting a Gameboy for Christmas, and that was awesome. (Especially since I never got a Nintendo. Humph.)