Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You” continues to make pop music history as the artist’s perennial yuletide standard (cowritten and coproduced by Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff in 1994) keeps breaking new records while lighting up the 2022 holiday season. In December of 2021 “All I Want for Christmas is You” became the first and only holiday […]

 A shiny red and white plastic Santa. Waving, riding on a sleigh, or simply standing there – they were all cute back in the middle of the 20th century. They’re very collectible today.  The sensational plastic Santa was the delight of the 1950s decade and even much of the 1960s during the Christmas season. The jolly elf of that particular […]

By Robert Reed  Part of the enduring Christmas season has always been the music. For decades much of it was captured on phonograph records and colorful long playing albums. Today many of those well-packaged Yule tunes are sounding very collectible.  “In the past few years the growth of Christmas music has been obvious,” wrote author Tim Neely in the 1997 […]

 We are saddened to learn that our friend Linda Louise Woods Gabitzsch Lancaster died October 17, 2022, at home in the arms of her husband following a sudden heart attack.  Linda was born March 4, 1948, to Roger Louis and Dolly (Best) Woods in Tucson, Ariz. She was raised in Phoenix and graduated in the top 2 percent of her […]