Staunton Star - Times - Published in the Interest of the Staunton Community for Over 143 Years

Merry Christmas!

I want to thank you for printing the letters to Santa from the past. It brings some good memories to some of us. Life was so much simpler back in those days. Kids asked for so little by today's standards.

Some of these letters were from the early 1900s nearly 50 years before my time. And yet, I remember some of the names of the youngsters. Reno, who employed my late husband in his bowling alley, Dorrell Kilduff, Fred McBrian (I wonder if he was our dentist), and so many other names of the past come to mind.

The children asked for a few toys of the day (some of which I never he...