I ran across this story a couple of weeks ago written by Frank Sullivan. It was published in 1933 in a book titled “A Pearl in Every Oyster.” Given that Thanksgiving is the kickoff of the Christmas season, I thought it would be interesting to reflect on what the people of the past thought a modern Christmas might look like. I’ll let you be the judge of how close Sullivan came to what it looks like in his short story, “The Christmas of the Future.”

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