Please let us know if you can help fill in the blanks. Now here's as much of the history as I can piece together so far. If you are an expert on these or you know someone who is, let us know, and we'll gladly welcome your input, corrections, additions, etc.Įven more important, if you have a special memory (or five) related to a candy-box-and-orange Christmas gift, and you want to share your story with readers, get in touch and we'll gladly share what we can. But I haven't been able to track them down, so I'm putting up what I know and "connecting the dots" with some educated guesses, in the hopes of triggering other folks' interest. Like half of what we post on this site, there MUST be people who know more about this than I do. This article is largely an attempt to start a "dialogue" with folks who are collecting these things or who might be interested in collecting these things. So I remember helping assemble and fill the boxes at least once, probably more. And the candy you bought was better, too.
SEES CANDY CHRISTMAS MEMORIES BOX FULL
Shelia and the other ladies in charge of acquiring the candy boxes discovered that if you bought the boxes full of candy already, you spent several times as much as if you bought just the boxes, then got some huge bags of candy and filled them yourself. Many years later, we went to a small church that used to give candy boxes and oranges to the children who showed up for the Sunday-before-Christmas service. I know I received candy boxes and oranges later in other places, but that's the one I remember most specifically. I have a vague memory of crossing Route 40 to get to the party, where there was a crowd of people I didn't know and a Santa who gave each child a candy box and an orange before they left. One of my earliest memories of receiving a candy box and orange at a public event was a firehouse Christmas party for the neighborhood children in Donnelsville, Ohio, some time in the mid-1950s.
And the candy box art, humble as it was, was as clear a reflection of its times as any greeting card art or Christmas tree decorations of the same period. But, like many other North American Christmas traditions, it is worth documenting now in case it goes the way of the putz* and the C-6 light bulb. Those of you who grew up with these things may think that it's silly to commemorate something so ubiquitous as Christmas candy boxes and oranges being given out at Christmas. Remembering: Candy Boxes and Oranges, from Family Christmas Online TM Remembering: Candy Boxes and Oranges, from Family Christmas OnlineTM
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