Okay! let's see all of the Christmas Trees!!

Bruzilla said:

I think this is the first year since 1982 that we won't be having a tree. The kids are gone, we're going to one of our sons' house to have the family Christmas this year, so it just wasn't worth the effort.

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shame, shame, shame... lol..

Seriously though, A good friend of my fathers (known him since i was born, always thought he was my uncle) sets his tree up every year, lives alone, his wife passed away young (maybe 40-45), he raised his 2 kids almost alone and they have no kids, both live 500-700+ miles away, and they come for thanksgiving but not xmas (I know this because they were just at my house for thanksgiving and have come for the last 4 years).
and he sets up that tree EVERY year!!! I asked my father why (I would never bring it up to him), and my ole' man said "He puts that tree up to remember all the times the kids and Terry (his wife) were there putting it up with him" ...

I was thinking, hes not crazy about xmas, he has no one over, he has no gifts under it, why set up a tree, no one can see it from outside, its in the back of his house, whats the point? But that one sentence and it made all the sense in the world... He puts that tree up, ornament by ornament remembering all the times he did it with his family...

I know when I put up my tree, I love the ornaments that my kids made when they were younger, when we go somewhere we buy ornaments, so I see one from las vegas, I think of me and my wife at coyote ugly's drinking too much and walking into the wrong hotel room, I see the few my mother gave me from her tree and think about all the times me, my brothers, sister, and parents setup our tree, all the houses we lived in, the couple years we went with out presents, lol... That tree is a lot more than just a giant pain in the *** to setup, lol, its all the years before that lead us to where we are now...

That being said, I joke about it, but I hope I never go a year with out putting up the tree...

From all our Jewish friends....

Here's our tree, can't wait till Christmas!



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Go figure... the damn phone turned it sideways.

Here is ours, my 5 yr old picked it out, it's a 7'3" biggest tree we have had yet, was able to put all our decoration on there this year. It's a Noble fur

god bless her!!

Nice trees guys .
By the way that is the coolest juke box I've ever seen! I thought the regular one everyone is after was the top dog now I know for sure 16 k I'll never have one .Thanks for sharing I'm big into antiques Nd antique clocks your clock got me almost as excited as seeing the jugs on the last page (poor girl ) someone should kiss them and make her feel better they got to hurt .

Beautiful trees everyone,this is ours.

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Bb70charger500 said:

Nice trees guys .
By the way that is the coolest juke box I've ever seen! I thought the regular one everyone is after was the top dog now I know for sure 16 k I'll never have one .Thanks for sharing I'm big into antiques Nd antique clocks your clock got me almost as excited as seeing the jugs on the last page (poor girl ) someone should kiss them and make her feel better they got to hurt .

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LOL, thanks, yah the wurly 1015 is the popular one because there are a lot of them around (I have had 9-10 of them, I finally got the 2 I am going to keep, 1 restored to perfection and the other in about the best unrestored condition I have ever seen, maybe the nicest 2 in the world.. if you watch this video, the one in my formal parlor has the same mechanisms as the 1015 (identical), just a cabinet/housing, the 1015 is flashier and has more lights with the waterfall, but the 1080 is classier... and much harder to find in nice shape...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Or5_BzYS1Q there is something soothing about throwing on an old 78 and listening how people listened 100 years ago, me and my wife have our wedding song in there A1 (ritchie valens - we belong together) and we will pop it on and dance in the parlor for an hour. Funny part is it used to embarrass the kids, and this summer during a party I heard the stereo cut out and juke box turn on, and they were in their dancing with their girlfriends (my wife was crying, lol)...

I have a bunch of them I prefer wulrys but have a few seeburgs (like the one fonzie used to bop in happy days),

Antiques are fun, you never know what is going to catch your eye, I like antique firearms, guitars, juke boxes, some tin toys (tin bands), and used to do the furniture thing (BUT with 2 teenagers thats tough, my kids come home from foot ball practice and plop down blowing the legs off of a $12K chair, lol)...

I will snap a picture of the clock I gave my mother, its a mid 1700's 8ft tall garrit knip, I am not sure how it happened but a dealer in CT ended up with a few of these, I was lucky enough to have a shot at an unrestored (but really would have been show ready with some pledge, lol) walnut clock, I sent it out, had it done and it came PERFECT, all original parts were saved, didnt have to get a single part remachined (hundreds of years old). Another one is sitting in Stamford still for sale http://www.ebay.com/itm/18TH-Centur...076172?hash=item3393dd268c:g:JeoAAOSwRLZT7lgh also gorgeous...

You can get crazy with clocks, that is for sure, there are $500K clocks out there!!!

I can talk about antiques all day, just as passionate about them as cars, in some cases more so, the history in a piece will blow your mind, just like a 1970 gtx can transport you back in time, so can an old chair or table with a 200 year old oil lamp lit on it....


I still want to find a english phone booth for my dining room, I purposely made the ceilings 12feet in there to fit one in there, I WANT ONE, and Ill find one up to the restoration I expect, problem is they are cast iron AND HEAVY...

there are tons of replicas out there http://www.ebay.com/itm/Aluminum-Me...838485?hash=item5d5db0fc15:g:kRMAAOSwPgxVPnxR some day the right original one will come up, I know a few made it to the US...

Seventy said:

shame, shame, shame... lol..

Seriously though, A good friend of my fathers (known him since i was born, always thought he was my uncle) sets his tree up every year, lives alone, his wife passed away young (maybe 40-45), he raised his 2 kids almost alone and they have no kids, both live 500-700+ miles away, and they come for thanksgiving but not xmas (I know this because they were just at my house for thanksgiving and have come for the last 4 years).
and he sets up that tree EVERY year!!! I asked my father why (I would never bring it up to him), and my ole' man said "He puts that tree up to remember all the times the kids and Terry (his wife) were there putting it up with him" ...

I was thinking, hes not crazy about xmas, he has no one over, he has no gifts under it, why set up a tree, no one can see it from outside, its in the back of his house, whats the point? But that one sentence and it made all the sense in the world... He puts that tree up, ornament by ornament remembering all the times he did it with his family...

I know when I put up my tree, I love the ornaments that my kids made when they were younger, when we go somewhere we buy ornaments, so I see one from las vegas, I think of me and my wife at coyote ugly's drinking too much and walking into the wrong hotel room, I see the few my mother gave me from her tree and think about all the times me, my brothers, sister, and parents setup our tree, all the houses we lived in, the couple years we went with out presents, lol... That tree is a lot more than just a giant pain in the *** to setup, lol, its all the years before that lead us to where we are now...

That being said, I joke about it, but I hope I never go a year with out putting up the tree...

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Well, you're welcome to come down here and set one up for me.

I "put up" these two in my shop every year! Hahaha! Merry CHRISTmas everyone!!

Awesome!!

benno440 said:

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Bruzilla said:

Well, you're welcome to come down here and set one up for me.

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We are going down in a month or so, visiting family and friends. My uncle' has a bar about an hour and a half south of you, maybe some friday night karaoke, good times on nova rd... Bunch of ole timers in there have a good time, lotta bikers around that way, I have taken the bike a few times, but florida is dangerous on bike...

Florida is dangerous in a tank...