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kontextmaschine:

Between the increasingly dated midcentury songs and TV specials, the legacy prewar department store stuff like the Macy’s parade, and Hallmark movies about rejecting yuppie urbanity for idealized small-town life, Christmas in the US is increasingly an American Golden Age nostalgia festival

Northern East Coast American Golden Age nostalgia fest. There is always snow at Christmas, but not too much and it isn’t that cold out, really.

Also this “Golden Age” is exactly like 7 years of the late 50s. For white people. Who had money.

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And were America.

(It was the “Camelot” early 60s, too. And the now-“Rust Belt” through Chicago to Minneapolis.)

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