My Yearly Christmas Wish

CHRISTMAS SEASON 2023

Good news for everyone except your wallet!

JOSKE'S DEPARTMENT STORE IN THE 1960s

Back in the 1960s, during Christmas, my family would hit the road and travel from Mexico City to San Antonio, Texas with the express purpose of doing some gift shopping and to spend Christmas there as well. We usually returned home on the 26th to celebrate the New Year back at home. Joske's was the main destination of our shopping days and visiting the toy department was a dream come true for us young tykes. I can still remember the toys I found there and the many hours we spent browsing through the aisles in wonderment.

The wonderful toy department at Joske's!

I bought these two at Joske's Toy Department around 1963.

Starting in 1960, kids at the Joske's store downtown would wait for their turn with Santa Claus in Fantasy Land, a 16,000-square-foot holiday-themed maze.

Santa's Fantasy Land!

The huge Christmas Santa at Joske's.

We stopped traveling to San Antonio by 1970 as we all grew older and pursued other holiday destinations but I never forgot those nostalgic days when I looked forward to the great San Antonio adventure at Christmas time!

In 1987, Joske’s was sold to Dillard’s, which occupied the building until 2008 when it was purchased and later occupied by the Rivercenter shopping mall. The building is part of the National Register of Historic Places-listed and City of San Antonio Alamo Plaza Historic District and is an individual City of San Antonio local landmark. 

A VERY SENIOR CHRISTMAS

GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PAST!

 Here is an array of Christmas themed cartoons I've posted before over the years, now coming back for seconds!

"'Twas Christmas Day in the Poorhouse,

and the boys were feeling blue!

The boys in grey were fightin',

A Merry Christmas to you!"

"Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,

Coming through the rye!

I wish you a Merry Christmas, 

Even as you and I!"

"Merry Christmas, mother,

Merry Christmas, mom!

Hi, mommy, mommy,

And a hot cha-cha!"

My Annual Christmas Wish List!

I've been wishing for Raquel Welch since way back in the 1960s...and still no dice. Of course, I mean the REAL Raquel Welch and not the pin-up posters Santa keeps delivering every year! 

Is my wish too far-fetched and ridiculous?  You be the judge!

You know the Christmas Season has begun when...

Everywhere you go, you find thousands of Xmas related merchandise...with ridiculous price tags!

CHRISTMAS PRESENTS UNDER THE TREE?

 

HAPPY HOLIDAYS 2020!

Luckily for me, cartoon characters don't have to keep social distancing due to the COVID pandemic, and I can safely enjoy dancing on the chorus line with a bevy of beauties!

The Covid-19 Beard Gallery

I've noticed almost everybody's started growing a beard during this pandemic...except me!  Maybe I should follow the trend.

           However, there's the definite possibility I may end up looking like Popeye's Poopdeck Pappy!

          Anyway, I'm doing some research to find which type of beard might be suitable to my face.
                                                   
                                          So, without further ado, I give you, my Beard Gallery:

                                         I guess the verdict is definitely...no beard for me!

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS...

MOBSTER NICK AT YULETIDE

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

                                                Have a Very Merry Christmas!

Those Classic Stop-Motion Christmas Specials!

Checking up on Mobster Nick's MO!

The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition is a 2005 children's picture book, written by Carol Aebersold and her daughter Chanda Bell, and illustrated by Coë Steinwart. The book tells a Christmas-themed story, written in rhyme, that explains how Santa Claus knows who is naughty and who is nice. It describes elves visiting children between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve, after which they return to the North Pole until the next holiday season. The Elf on the Shelf comes in a keepsake box that features a hardbound picture book and a small soft toy in the form of a pixiescout elf.

Although not all elves stick to checking up on children. One in particular seems to be fascinated by Mobster Nick's highly malfeasant and shady activities.

CHRISTMAS CHEER!

Fun and Humor for the Christmas Season!


               

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!