Another one in the "other folded amusements" category ...
When I was a kid there was a Department Store in Detroit called Hudson's.
Besides Hudson's having a wonderful toy department which took up an entire floor (ahem, as a 4 year old you did not want to get lost at Hudson's ... traumatic, I digress), they also did other very old fashioned things ... gloved elevator operators and other specialized staff ... for example gift wrappers.
Back in the day, the gift wrappers would wrap gifts without tape, and while I was just a bit too young to remember how they did it, I do remember the wrapped packages being very ornate, and all the adults were always carrying-on about how well done it was and how the Gift Wrapper would fold all the exposed edges over so one would not get a paper cut (apparently quite tragic to women from The Great Generation), and how beautiful the packages were.
Did you ever have older relatives, Grandparents, Great Aunts etc who were compulsive wrapping savers and who closely supervised your gift-opening as a child so you would not just rip all the wrapping paper to shreds?
I mean, what if there was another Great Depression? ... what if wrapping paper was suddenly no longer available? ... what if the family had to choose between wrapping paper and food? ... more vestiges of that era ... I digress (again).
Anyhow ... so I always wondered what were the older methods of wrapping gifts.
Here are three videos from youtube that show how to wrap gifts in this old fashioned way.
Timely with the holidays coming up.
Not exactly rocket-science ... but still interesting ...
I know ... all pretty sedate stuff. I think the early, non-stop Christmas music on the local radio station is affecting my mind. I'm gripped by nostalgia every year. Just a bit too long on the Norman Rockwell side of things ... I think it's part of being a boomer. It's not even Thanksgiving and already it's time for a couple stiff holiday belts to clear my head. <sigh>