Category: Home Movies

I want to thank Mrs. Peggy Fisher for letting me be a part of sharing her classic American family with the followers of my blog. I know your family has enjoyed seeing the old memories, but know these movies are making new memories for many more. It is like we are all transported back in time.

This is cute little home movie of a family in the 1950’s. The little girl is running around looking adorable! It looks like a happy time for the whole family. The 1950s cars on the street and the men all wearing hats, this is the the classic vision of America!

This is a home movie of the congregation of the First Baptist Church in Mineola Texas attending Easter Service in 1957. The camera person shots the arrivals on this Easter shooting film of the view up Johnson St.

This is great footage of Christmas in 1951. The family really has a lot of joy and are really enjoying the holiday! The boys get cap guns and the girls get dolls. The sweaters are super cute also.

This film shows a family taken a trip out to an East Texas Oil Well site. The film was shot about 1960. If this was today I do not think you would see women in Sunday best and kids running around an active well! Simpler Times!

This is great footage of a family trip to Six Flags over Texas in January of 1962. It was a different time for sure! The footage shows quick clips of rides, playful seals and staged gunfights. It also offers brief looks at the original Skull Island, which used to be one of the park’s premier attractions with slides and tree houses and bouncy bridges.

This is a home movie of a drive from East Texas across the Red River, Mississippi River, and into Vicksburg National Military Park. The footage has been damaged from heat and time, but still neat to see how it looked back in the day!

This is a home movie of laundry in Oak Cliff Dallas Texas on the 100 blocks of North Lancaster. I am not sure where the footage of the classroom at the end of the film was shot I have a hunch it is Mineola Texas.

This is a home movie of the Watermelon Fest in Mineola Texas. This film was shot in 1953. Watermelon Festival beginning in 1948, the city of Mineola hosted the annual Watermelon Festival. The festival included a parade, a pageant culminating in the crowing of a Watermelon Queen, as well as free watermelon for the public. The festival was discontinued in the 1960s.