My mother gets nostalgic about the old fashioned lights with big bulbs and bright colors of her childhood. That and the bubble lights, those were electric too. She was born in 1932.
She actually found reproduction bubble lights. I don't think I get it, lol. Guess you had to have been there.
I’d never heard of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Osborne_Family_Spectacle_of_Dancing_Lights
But when I saw it @ Disney last month, I was blown away.
Everything used to have a meaning, symbol or represented something. We have traditions while do not know the origins.
I have a whole bunch of those big bulb colored lights from my grandma’s collection. She never threw anything out. LOL. I dare not use them.
I had to search what bubble lights are. Very interesting. If I were a kid, I’d get into trouble for wanting to spin them!
I do miss the candles on the Christmas tree. We’d light the candles and just sit there for a while watching them in a darkened room. It was so peaceful and soothing. Us kids had to sit quietly.
Bubble lights in the form of a candle were my favorite lights for the tree. It took them several minutes to warm up and begin to bubble but it was worth the wait.
We used to put bubble lights on our Christmas tree in the 1950’s and early 1960’s.