Do you remember a Christmas tradition or item from your youth? I remember the cardboard fireplaces and the TV stations

[OldBaldy1701E]

43. Yes. This.

My grandmother would place this on the table in the front hallway of her house. I remember it from every single Christmas that was celebrated at her house, which was every year until she passed.

There were a few more figures, but they were broken or disintegrated over the decades. I am missing the other two 'Kings of Orient', as well as another shepherd boy leaning on his crook, with a sheep beside him, and three sheep laying down like the mule and the cow are doing. I had to repair some of the ones you see because they were also broken, but she did not throw them away. I am very glad, because I was not interested in the display being 'correct', I just wanted to the one that I grew up with. It is fragile, but I will still set it out for the holiday in remembrance of my grandmother, who obviously liked it enough to buy all new figures for it on three different occasions. It is on the shelf behind me a this very moment.

The stable has a wind up music thing on the inside where it plays the first verse of 'What Child Is This?' I have not tried it since I got it, so I think it still works, but I don't want to risk it without some prep first.

(I also remember the TV stations doing the burning log, but my grandmother did not have a color television until the late seventies, so it was always a bit funny to us grandkids to see a black and white fire.)