Happy Holidays

Now THAT's an Exit!

Send a Holiday Card:
http://s596.photobucket.com/albums/tt43/loretophoto/Tocci%20Holiday/
Watch a medley of cards in HD:
TocciHolidayCards

ALL Holiday youtube videos can be found within this one playlist:

http://www.youtube.com/user/8mmhomemoviechannel#grid/user/62CE1AB9F5A79E56

Images set to holiday music:  
Classic Cedrone Images

 
Vintage images with a holiday theme: 
Happy Holidays

Home For The Holidays: 
Home For The Holidays

Christmas 1990:Frank Tocci Christmas 1990

Christmas Pleasantville 1990 
 (Another similar version).
It's 1956 
(I'm writing this in 2010 or 54 years later).
This clip looks as good today as it did when it was first developed & it's now in HD too!
I wish I had those simple toys today. Donald's in the Army (you'll see his framed photo as the camera pans down the tree), Diane & Doug are sleeping, well there were until those bright lights hit'em, and all I want for Christmas is an ornament:Christmas'56
And SEE the difference in full frame HD:Christmas 1956
Also featured here is a similar video but note my parents & siblings have each since passed away, their dates are incorporated in the video:Christmas Memories 1956!
Christmas '56 & '82: 
Loreto's Christmas Holiday Fun
 
This version offers more of my parents & Kelly:LoretoKelly26YearsApart now revised with greater 8mm quality: 
Father Daughter 26 Years Apart The full version: Christmas 1982
Holiday "Hits." A medley of Christmas Day moments.Read the description:Happy Holidays

Christmas Memories: A swirling snowy slide show of some good ol' times & maybe Mary's video should be called a colander Christmas!





Larry & Anthony wishing you 
a merry ol' time:
 Happy Holidays From Larry & Anthony

Christmas at our house: 
Christmas At Our House

& If you liked the ABOVE video you'll LOVE this version: 
Italian Christmas

Worth the click or watch the video in the box below:
Digital Drunk Santa:Drunk Santa

Recorded in the early 1970's, Larry & his guitar teacher perform Jingle Bells.

Audio recorded with a cassette deck microphone 
(the noise you hear is my mother at x's

moving the mic closer).

Happy Thanksgivingfrom Doug, Norrine, Doug Jr.& Diane 
:Thanksgiving In Elmsford

Happy Holidays from Doug & Norrine's of Elmsford:
Merry Christmas From Elmsford

Have a Lara & Heather Holiday!
Lara & Heather Holidays
The HoneyMooners!


The Honeymooner's, one of the greatest shows ever to grace the small screen & certainly my favorite. Ol' Ralphy boy, Ed, Alice & Trixie go from Bensonhurst to Pleasantville in this 8mm/tv show mix.
Happy Holiday's from littlest honeymooner, Loreto.Some things never change. Mary 1978 & about 14 years later....
Marys Wave

My father was so happy to get a new "jumping suit," joggers suit after my mother burnt his. But what a difference a year makes...
My mother Christmas '86 ( actually, Feb. '87 see video description) Christmas 1986 & below Thanksgiving '87...
This would be my mother's last Thanksgiving:Recorded 11/26/87, she passes away 11 months to the day 10/26/88 
:Thanksgiving 1987
Chris & Frank Christmas 1987
This is the full version of the above Christmas 86: Christmas 86
The LAST Christmas at 37 Hopper Street. My mother died Oct' 88. By Sept.'91 my father sold the house that was the "family's," home built in the '40's, by my grandfather, my mother's father, Loreto Cedrone. Long gone now were the food, wine, laughter & song. Well, maybe the wine was still there.
This would be the last Christmas in the home that once "housed," so many memories.
The video description details the rest. Last Tocci Christmas
& here are a three of other gems:A QUEENLY Thanksgiving 1986 
The SnazzysSparKELLO's
What's old is new. 1980's Thanksgiving retrofitted in 8mm style:

Thanksgiving 8mm

Thanksgiving, Christmas, but what about Easter?

Loreto Easter & BONK!

Now sit down & have a "sangwedge," we have plenty of rolls & cold cuts, coffee, & cake, and counters filled with Easter Baskets:
Easter, Pleasantville NY 
My parents vist for Easter. Some highlights, my father wearing Kelly's bonnet, looking through the view finder, & cleaning all the jelly beans off the rug.

Easter Kelly

Only my mother. Grandpa looks like a what?

Grandpa Looks Like A...
Diane & George bring Easter baskets for Kelly & Mike:
Easter With Diane George
Warm up by the fire! This roaring yule log of our fireplace makes a great screen saver:

Yule Log
But if you REALLY wanna be warm, get close to your monitor and enjoy the fire in HD:
Youtube Video Of The Year!
Before you rewind back to the past below. Fast forward years later Thanksgiving 2004:

The story of my mother & her sister Antoinette:

Thanksgiving 2004

Just for a laugh was Loreto the inspiration for Charlie Brown?

PS: Nothing says Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas or Happy Easter like a gun!

Those (crazy) Mahoney's prove it to be true:

GUNS...For Christmas & Easter

Here are a sleigh full of fun Marini/Mahoney Holiday Hits:

Dan Marini's 8mm

A Very Merry Marini, 8mm Home Movie

Merry Marini Man

Mother Goose Mahoney

Guns For Christmas, 8mm Home Movie

A Very Merry Mahoney Christmas, 8mm Home Movie

Merry Mahoney Maniacs

Recorded Holidays 2011. Clara's Stories:

Clara once rented the 2nd floor apt of a Hawthorne (NY) home when she & Dan married.

The landlady's daughter in law asked what Clara was cooking....

Aunt Clara Aunt Millie

Christmas 1920's:

Clara's Christmas

Harry ties a horse:

Clara's Horse Story

Clara tells of the time she got punched! (READ the description of the video):

Clara's Punch!

Typical Sunday Dinner:

Clara's Pasta

Clara's Pasta Part Two

Getting to Clara's in 60 seconds:

Providence Rhode Island to Quincy Ma in 60 Seconds HD

I gathered Doug's 8mm Christmas footage this year (2012) to create Christmas Past. Below that is a very short iphone video recorded the day after Thanksgiving in downtown Easton, Pa., when visiting with our daughter & her family for their cities big candle lighting. Kinda' funny!

 
8mm Home Movie Memories Of Christma…
 
  8mm Home Movie Memories Of Christmas…
 
Easton Pa. Candle Lighting. THAT'S IT?
One More Time! Going Back To YesterYear.
PROOF! I WAS the inspiration for Charlie Brown:
http://tocci.blogspot.com/2012/12/blog-post_21.html   

Clara & Larry Patriot Ledger Thanksgiving 2009

Parade Memories. Clara Marini-91 with her nephew Larry Tocci. Larry converted to digital,home movies of the Quincy Christmas Parade which her husband Dan had taken 50 years ago.
In compiling his family history, Larry Tocci dug up a bit of Quincy history as well.
He was searching through old photographs in his aunt’s West Quincy home when he came upon VHS reproductions of 8mm reels. He gave the tapes a look and was

transported to Christmas in the 1950s when Quincy Center was known as Shopperstown USA.
It’s some of the only footage known to exist of the formative years of the city’s Christmas parade, a community tradition that began in 1952 and continues this Sunday.
Ed Fitzgerald, director of the Quincy Historical Society, enthusiastically accepted Tocci’s offer of copies of the tapes, which Tocci has posted on YouTube.
“We have some ’50s footage, but we don’t have a lot,” Fitzgerald said. “The holiday parade stuff is fun. It’s a great little capsule of a whole other time. You’ve got these street scenes of places that are long gone.”
Holly and garlands hang from lampposts, majorettes twirl batons and Santa waves from a holiday float as it passes department stores on Hancock Street.
“We’d bundle up the kids and we’d all go over to watch the parade,” remembered Clara Marini, 91, Tocci’s aunt, who has lived in Quincy since 1942. “It was a big thing. All my friends, all my neighbors over here, we all went. We walked.”
Clara’s husband, Donato – he went by Dan – had a documentarian’s eye. He didn’t just film his daughters Linda & Janet majorettes in the parade, but the entire event, as if he were covering it for live television.
“Imagine me, I’m scanning this and going, ‘What is he doing? What is he trying to shoot? Who is he trying to get?’” Tocci said. “He just filmed the parade.”
Dan Marini, a carpenter from New York, moved his family to Quincy in 1942 to take a job at the Fore River shipyard. He built barracks during the war.
He and Clara raised their two daughters, Janet and Linda, in Quincy. In the 1950s – which Fitzgerald called “the great age of home movies” – Marini began documenting family events with an 8-millimeter camera.
The footage – of weddings and birthdays and anniversary celebrations – proved invaluable as Larry Tocci compiled the family history.
Clara Marini said her husband was careful with his film. “He was very meticulous,” she said. “He kept it just so.”
Dan Marini died three and a half years ago. Shortly thereafter, his nephew found the tapes.
As he combed through the footage, studying the vintage cars and Sunday-best clothing, Tocci realized his uncle was preserving a record of the time, not just of the family.
“This speaks of a very simple time,” Tocci said. “They didn’t need to have just quick edits, fast pace, almost like a video game or an action movie. This is very simple. You can see all the local townspeople just out, watching their family and friends in a parade. That’s just simple, pure Americana.”

Quincy Ma. Holiday Parades Late 1950's

The first 1/2 is now available in HD:

The 2nd 1/2 of this parade was further enhanced:
Quincy Ma. Holiday Parades Late 1950's

I had a little fun with the photo too:
You can also watch it on my laptop!
Quincy Holiday Parade
FOUND! After this interview, two minutes of ORIGINAL 8mm footage were found with Linda's reels . You'll see quite the difference in quality. Featured is Linda. Janet is seen too & again in the crowd with neighbors at the end: 
Quincy Ma., 1950's Christmas Parade.
 
1950's Quincy Christmas Parade