Letters to Santa…from 1976
by Debra Howard and Robin Walters
As Christmas rolls around once again, letters to Santa begin filling the post office to be sent to the North Pole. Sheridan High School seniors may consider themselves too old to be writing to Santa in 1987, but here are a few of the letters written to the jolly old man in 1976.
These letters are taken from the Sheridan Headlight of December 25, 1976.
Dear Santa Claus,
I’m going to have a very nice Christmas. I want a lot of presents like Barbie clothes, an iron and a bicycle. I have been very good. Bring Nancy and Papa something good for Christmas.
Love,
Laurette (Lankford)
Dear Santa,
My name is Angela Rogers and I am five years old. I have been very good this year. I would like to have a baby doll that crawls and walks or one that kisses, a record player and a watch.
Your friend,
Angela (Rogers)
Dear Santa,
I want a bicycle and a doll and a little kit with lipstick and stuff. That’s all.
Love,
Gina McCool
Dear Santa,
I want an ice Bird, a thing that can make pizza, a piñata, a G. I. Joe, a G. I. Joe suit and a motor cross bike. Just the parts.
Love,
Scott Herron
Dear Santa,
I am good most of the time. I want some Walkie Talkies and Snoopy’s Drive-In Movies. I’ve been a good boy.
Phillip A. Clifford
Dear Santa,
I wish it would be a good Christmas. I want a play Six-million Dollar man doll.
Love,
Kevin Matlock
Dear Santa,
I want a Barbie set, a camper, a Barbie set Hair style and I want a airplane and a baby that tee-tees in her pants and eats real food.
Love,
Jeri Suttle
Dear Santa,
I want a toy it’s little and it’s a little airplane and a little rubber pocket knife remember rubber. And a little gun set and a calendar to put up in my room. A little picture.
Love,
Robert McClung
Dear Santa,
How are you? I would like to have a Barbie Doll, some clothes for it with a suitcase. I would like a Raggedy Ann record player with some records, but I would take whatever you got me. See you at Christmas. Hope you won’t forget me.
Your friend,
Kimberly Derrick
Dear Santa,
I love you Santa,
Andrea Winston
Dear Santa Claus,
I want a doll, play sink, baby bottle, and a record player. I am a big girl and I have been good. I also want a purse some clothes for my doll. I plan to get my mother, daddy and others something. I am getting my mother a paper cutter. I want to get my brother one of those long yellow square things that you can move. What do you call that? I haven’t thought of daddy yet. Well that’s all.
Kim Vailes
DEAR SANTA, ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS…
By Steven Benning, Carmen Hensley, Laurie Revia and Darrin Theiss
December 1987
As Christmas gets closer (there are only SIX shopping days left), one wonders what to buy for others.
For some of us, the problem is letting others know what we want for Christmas.
A recent informal poll of SHS students revealed that, of 75 respondents, 80 percent want a car for Christmas.
Other gifts in order of preference include clothes (66%), jewelry (52%), and money (44%).
Some other gifts mentioned were stereos, waterbeds, cameras, VCR’s, and toys like Puff-a-lumps, Mr. Game Show, Noid dolls, and Gumbys.
The top five gifts a guy would give a girl were kittens, jewelry, perfume, stuffed animals, and fur coats.
The top five gifts a girl would give a guy were a steering wheel and floor mats, Polo, clothes, and a billfold.
