Home movie - Taken by Bob and Helene Hoffman (couple at the beginning); Christmas and New Year's Eve 1953 (three different occasions) with the Hoffman family/friends in Jersey City and Elizabeth, NJ.

Helene is my mom, from old 35mm home movies that were packed away for 60 years and I finally got to digitize. Her husband Bob passed in 1960 (she then later married my father), but she lived a long healthy life until the age of 92, passing in 2015.

Soundtrack:
"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" (1951) - Perry Como and the Fontane Sisters
"Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" (1944) - Judy Garland
"Let's Start the New Year Right" (1942) - Bing Crosby
"Auld Lang Syne" (1939 version) - Guy Lombardo