We are upon the holiday season and I am feverishly adding things to my Etsy and Ebay accounts when I run across this little sterling baby food pusher, dated Dec. 1914 on the handle.
A baby's first Christmas gift from the year that saw the start of WWI, the first Model T car, Charlie Chaplin starring in 'The Tramp", and a little boy is born in Birmingham Alabama that will change Christmas.
Yes, that's what I said. Changed Christmas with this movie score.
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| From Meet Me in St. Louis |
His name was
Hugh Martin and he wrote the musical score (words and music) for the movie Meet Me in St. Louis, starring Judy Garland, which included "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."
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| Found online this image is of Hugh Martin, Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra |
Now you see how he changed Christmas! It a Christmas time standard that everyone has covered on their Christmas albums. It is a song that allows for us to feel melancholy and happy, simultaneously.
His first Merry Little Christmas, was December 1914, in Birmingham Alabama. Among his gifts was a baby food pusher. Actually it was this baby food pusher. I found it at his younger brother's estate sale in Birmingham.
This item is currently available on
Ebay here. You too, can have a piece of Birmingham and American Christmas history.
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