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It’s often remembered as the golden age of holiday nostalgia, but the 1950s Christmas was also a bizarre world of space-age artificiality and questionable culinary choices.

Welcome back to History Havens. In this episode, we're exploring the plastic, pastel, and peculiar reality of a mid-century Christmas. We’ll uncover the trend of the aluminum Christmas tree (which couldn't have lights, so it needed a rotating color wheel), the rise of "savory" Jell-O salads filled with tuna and mayonnaise, and the toys that required you to supply your own vegetable, like the original Mr. Potato Head.

This video is part of our Boring History for Sleep series. Settle in, get comfortable, and drift off while learning the fascinating, slightly synthetic truths about the holidays of the past.

Sweet dreams.