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I Will Never Forget Those Wonderful Days When We Were Young and Innocent and the Wonder of Christmas Was Still So Alive in Our Hearts.

By Sharriewilliams

Maybelline's Founder, Tom Lyle Williams - Christmas 1959.

I will never forget those wonderful days when  we were young and Innocent and the wonder of Christmas  was still so alive in our hearts.

My father Bill Williams with his uncle Tom Lyle Williams Christmas 1959

I remember soaking up the aroma of those red leather upholstered seats, as uncle Lyle stepped out of his brand new white convertible Cadillac that Christmas.
I will never forget those wonderful days when  we were young and Innocent and the wonder of Christmas  was still so alive in our hearts.
 My dad remarked that the deep red was symbolic of Maybelline's trademark color and called the car triple white, with red interior and extra big whitewall tires.
I will never forget those wonderful days when  we were young and Innocent and the wonder of Christmas  was still so alive in our hearts.
Uncle Lyle, gathered up the gifts given to him from movie stars, magazine editors, studio executives and advertising tycoons and said he didn't need it all... and would rather see us enjoy the fancy dried fruit from Italy, the Belgium cookies, German chocolates and French pastille candy drops.
I will never forget those wonderful days when  we were young and Innocent and the wonder of Christmas  was still so alive in our hearts.

 Seeing such delights once a year was a thrill, but not nearly as exciting as when he handed us kids our Christmas envelopes filled with a crisp $10.00 bill.  It doesn't seem like much now, but in today's market it would be more like $100.00.

I will never forget those wonderful days when  we were young and Innocent and the wonder of Christmas  was still so alive in our hearts.
 After dinner I sang Bali High from  South Pacific and danced the hula...in costume,

I will never forget those wonderful days when  we were young and Innocent and the wonder of Christmas  was still so alive in our hearts.

while my ten year old sister Donna, waited to make her entrance asMarilyn Monroe.
I'll never forget her wearing
pink wig, false eyelashes and holding a
 long cigarette holder while dancing to
Bobby Darin'sMack The Knife.
I will never forget those wonderful days when  we were young and Innocent and the wonder of Christmas  was still so alive in our hearts.
It was all very entertaining, as you can well imagine, but nothing was more memorable than watching uncle Lyle's face, as he marveled at my adorable little 4 year old sister Billee, dancing to Rudolph the
Red Nosed Raindeer.

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