• Christmas Eve-What'sUP December 28 - 10:29 am

We set our Shoebox Memory time machine to the winter of 1932-33 and join Don Elzinga for a Christmas morning moment:

Last week you asked about memorable Christmas pictures. This was taken years ago, at the height of the Depression, and from the somber looks of my 4 year old brother Gene and myself at 1-1/2, you wouldn't know it was Christmas. Other pictures taken at the same time out in the snow show us smiling.

Don

Poor little boys.

So sorry you don't have snow. Maybe the old lake will blow you a nice snow storm tonight!

I'm thinking the wistful look is from having to stop their play to pose for the picture? Beautiful clear sky and blue lake between Eagle and Copper Harbors, sausage off the stove and pancakes on the way! Happy Holidays and a warm New Year to all(that's an emotional warm, that doesn't mean no snow!)

I've always wanted to experience a snowless Christmas in the Copper Country just so I could say I experienced it. That is totally unbelievable! Even in years when there's been no snow until December, the area was always buried by Christmas time. It's definitely a year for the record books. I look at it this way, every day without snow is one day closer to spring. Happy day before Christmas everybody!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all you Pasty Central people who provide us with such a vital link to the Copper Country.
And to all you would-be Yoopers from all over the country.

The picture was before my time, but I can only imagine what was going through their minds. But at least someone got a truck--couldn't have been all that bad.

Hi and Christmas to all! So pretty Christmans eve weather in HANCOCK area.. .just look web cam!
In Finland quite black Christmass..perhaps in North and Lapland area little snow, but VAASA,SEINAJOKI,LAPUA in height land is bare!

Just wanted to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! This site has given me great pleasure this past year. Thank you all. Someday I want to visit for sure - guess I am a Yooper at heart!

Charlie, December of 1994 was also a "brown Christmas" in Keweenaw County. I remember it well as our usual snowmobile trip between Christmas and New Year's Eve involved NO snowmobiling until about December 31 or January 1 when it snowed so hard and so long that we had snow coming over the shrouds of our snowmobiles within 24 hours of the storm starting! I remember the date because we all blamed my wife. She was pregnant at the time (baby born in March 1995) and not sledding that year due to her "condition"! We figured that she had doomed us all with an anti-snow dance that trip! :-) And then when it finally DID start snowing, she wanted to drive home... :-(

My Aunt Dorie (bless her heart) never had a doll all of her life until my sister & I gave her one when she was probably in her 40's. After we gave it to her,she'd come up to our house every Saturday afternoon to play house with us. She'd walk up the street carrying her baby doll. She just loved it. Neighbors thought there was something wrong with her because they'd see her carrying a baby every Saturday. Ha Ha. What a sweet lady she was. We sure loved her. So all the children suffered during the Depression. Some never got anything for Christmas. Merry Christmas! And let's be thankful for what we have.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Thank you for the pasty central web site---I love checking it every day.
Please pray for our men and women in the military who are serving all over the world. They have given us the gift of freedom.

Merry Christmas No snow but didn't expect any so, I am not disapointed. Making dinner for everyone and just finished carving the ham and getting the potatoes peeled. Roast beef is smelling good and ready for the carving, carrots allready to go in the steamer.

Merry Christmas from snowy Casper, Wyoming. Over a foot of heavy Christmas snow and it's still falling. I remember sking into my Grandfathers cottage just North of Eagle River on camp road #6! Hard to believe you can drive in today without a snowplow in front of you!

Young Don looks like 30's film star Jackie Coogan.

My dad got a "Three Little Kittens" book for Christmas one year and thought he had the world. So sad. I think my mom said she didn't get anything.

Yes, it was all that bad, it was 1932 during the depression.

Merry Christmas, we in Illinois don't have snow either. The 15 inches has melted. We don't care as it means the city workers will be home and not out plowing. Have a happy new year.

Merry Christmas and may God Bless all.

Wish I was watching the waves hit the beach!

Merry Christmas everybody, now go to bed, Santa's comin!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas ~ God bless you one and all! I hope the new year brings brighter days and God given love!