Thelma and Lowell's Diary: Dec. 16, 1943
They decorate their Christmas tree; the White House gets one too
Thelma bought still more Christmas cards — how many people do this couple have on their list — and Lowell finished making her grocery cart and painted it. “Then we decorated our Xmas tree and it looks swell,” she wrote.
I found this cute vintage photo of a young couple in front of a 1940s Christmas tree on eBay. We don’t know what Thelma and Lowell looked like, but I bet the tree looked a lot like this, covered in balls and tinsel.
The White House got a Christmas tree this year, too, but it was a near thing. Paid subscribers can read on about how war-time restrictions almost unleashed the Grinch in Washington.
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