Brian Earl

And again, with the Christmas trees, again, They didn't really become especially common in American households until, you know, about the late 19th, early 20th century. Well, that's my great-great-grandparents for someone my age. It's not exactly ancient history. I mean, those are people, I know their names. I have pictures of those people.

And again, with the Christmas trees, again, They didn't really become especially common in American households until, you know, about the late 19th, early 20th century. Well, that's my great-great-grandparents for someone my age. It's not exactly ancient history. I mean, those are people, I know their names. I have pictures of those people.

So, so much of Christmas is just brand new, and a great deal of the remainder isn't all that much older. And that even is true of certain Christmas songs. You think like Hark the Herald Angels Sing just kind of has this ring to it that it must be this really, really old song. But no, that was mid to late 19th century.

So, so much of Christmas is just brand new, and a great deal of the remainder isn't all that much older. And that even is true of certain Christmas songs. You think like Hark the Herald Angels Sing just kind of has this ring to it that it must be this really, really old song. But no, that was mid to late 19th century.

So, so much of Christmas is just brand new, and a great deal of the remainder isn't all that much older. And that even is true of certain Christmas songs. You think like Hark the Herald Angels Sing just kind of has this ring to it that it must be this really, really old song. But no, that was mid to late 19th century.

The interesting thing about that is that it did not become an industry until about the late 1930s. And the logic was in the entertainment industry, why are we going to invest in creating a product that people are only going to be interested in for a couple of weeks out of the year? And so you notice there really aren't a lot of great American Christmas songs prior to the 1940s.

The interesting thing about that is that it did not become an industry until about the late 1930s. And the logic was in the entertainment industry, why are we going to invest in creating a product that people are only going to be interested in for a couple of weeks out of the year? And so you notice there really aren't a lot of great American Christmas songs prior to the 1940s.

The interesting thing about that is that it did not become an industry until about the late 1930s. And the logic was in the entertainment industry, why are we going to invest in creating a product that people are only going to be interested in for a couple of weeks out of the year? And so you notice there really aren't a lot of great American Christmas songs prior to the 1940s.

Now, Winter Wonderland was written in the late 1930s. The original version is no longer popular. You can find it online, but it just has too much of an old-timey feel. So what changed? Well, the movie industry came along, and a lot of songs were written for movies that either featured Christmas or were about Christmas. This is another interesting thing.

Now, Winter Wonderland was written in the late 1930s. The original version is no longer popular. You can find it online, but it just has too much of an old-timey feel. So what changed? Well, the movie industry came along, and a lot of songs were written for movies that either featured Christmas or were about Christmas. This is another interesting thing.

Now, Winter Wonderland was written in the late 1930s. The original version is no longer popular. You can find it online, but it just has too much of an old-timey feel. So what changed? Well, the movie industry came along, and a lot of songs were written for movies that either featured Christmas or were about Christmas. This is another interesting thing.

Even though a lot of our favorite Christmas movies come from the 1940s, there really weren't Christmas movies in the 1940s. It wasn't until television came along that you had this annual tradition of watching movies on Christmas. You have to imagine the same couldn't be true before TV came.

Even though a lot of our favorite Christmas movies come from the 1940s, there really weren't Christmas movies in the 1940s. It wasn't until television came along that you had this annual tradition of watching movies on Christmas. You have to imagine the same couldn't be true before TV came.

Even though a lot of our favorite Christmas movies come from the 1940s, there really weren't Christmas movies in the 1940s. It wasn't until television came along that you had this annual tradition of watching movies on Christmas. You have to imagine the same couldn't be true before TV came.

That movie theaters would show the same Christmas movie every year and that families would have a tradition of going to the movie theater. That just doesn't make sense. So a lot of these movies like Miracle on 34th Street and It's a Wonderful Life actually premiered during the summer. But that's a bit of an aside. But it was really during the 1940s that...

That movie theaters would show the same Christmas movie every year and that families would have a tradition of going to the movie theater. That just doesn't make sense. So a lot of these movies like Miracle on 34th Street and It's a Wonderful Life actually premiered during the summer. But that's a bit of an aside. But it was really during the 1940s that...

That movie theaters would show the same Christmas movie every year and that families would have a tradition of going to the movie theater. That just doesn't make sense. So a lot of these movies like Miracle on 34th Street and It's a Wonderful Life actually premiered during the summer. But that's a bit of an aside. But it was really during the 1940s that...

A lot of these songs were written for movies. And then once that sort of proved the concept, you had a lot more of these Christmas songs being written. All of this, of course, coincided with World War II. And you notice the lyrics to a lot of these songs are like, I'll be home for Christmas. I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.

A lot of these songs were written for movies. And then once that sort of proved the concept, you had a lot more of these Christmas songs being written. All of this, of course, coincided with World War II. And you notice the lyrics to a lot of these songs are like, I'll be home for Christmas. I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.

A lot of these songs were written for movies. And then once that sort of proved the concept, you had a lot more of these Christmas songs being written. All of this, of course, coincided with World War II. And you notice the lyrics to a lot of these songs are like, I'll be home for Christmas. I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.