In many ways, Christmas 1940 was the first war-time Christmas of World War Two. Celebrating during heavy rationing and ...

Few Christmas decorations capture the nostalgic nature of the holiday quite like blow molds. These iconic decorations first ...

Photo: A child sleeps in an air-raid shelter festooned with Christmas decorations – a not uncommon sight in December 1940. (Getty Images) Firemen who fought the Second Great Fire of London ...

However, wartime shortages in the 1940s also meant families had to ... film "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," embodied the Christmas tree-decorating trends of the time. Some families, like ...

Few Christmas decorations capture the nostalgic nature of the holiday quite like blow molds. These iconic decorations first came about during the 1940s and have transformed over the decades.