For your Saturday entertainment we have a few random pieces of ephemera from Christmases past. Above, an Old Gold cigarette ad from 1945. Here, you will see the original sheet music for "White Christmas," which my mother had, followed by an ad from the Woolworth Christmas catalog from 1952 (thanks to the anonymous scanner who posted this on the Usenet.) Here, the morning radio broadcast for Dec. 25, 1944. Bad news, straight, no chaser. And finally, the annual Christmas matchbook.

Merry Christmas!