Weird christmas cards

Today, you will be visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. You know what, scratch that. We’re experiencing the present, and the future is too unpredictable. Let’s just focus on the past!

I have always had a fascination for antique postcards ~ any holiday...but the Christmas ones are quite strange indeed. From their morbidity, to the just plain strange! here are a few that have made me say... "....Hmmmm...." I mean, creepy walking root-vegetable men? or how about a kidnapping santa? this one cracks me up - just look at their little legs! a little too much eggnog perhaps? and doesn't a cat-fight outside a tenement window just scream Happy Christmastide? or would you prefer a…

LOBSTER PARADE 1905 CHRISTMAS postcard from

Some cards were drawn faster than others, I think.

These vintage gun ads will give you a good chuckle and show you just how much the world has changed in the past few decades.

These holiday cards and postcards seemed appropriate at the time they were made.