Merry Christmas from Author, Sharrie Williams. Here are some of my favorite vintage family Christmas pictures

Tom Lyle Williams was known as Unk Ile to his family.He remembered every single one of his siblings, their children and their children's children on Christmas. My sisters, brother and I, couldn't wait for our shiny $10.00 bill inside a money-card, that said Merry Christmas Lots of love from Unk Ile.

Sharrie and Donna Williams, 1949

Sharrie and Donna, 1952,

Tom Lyle Williams with Billee, Christmas, 1959

Donna, Sharrie and Billee Williams, 1959.

Bill Williams with his uncle, Tom Lyle Williams, 1959.



Tom Lyle and Bill Williams, with Billee in the background, 1959

Tom Lyle with googley eye glasses, 1959.

my baby brother Preston 1960



Read about the founding of the Maybelline Company in
 1915, to it's sale in 1967 in my book The Maybelline Story.
 You will meet it's founder and owner, Tom Lyle Williams,
and his family. 

Vintage Merry Christmas 1943 during WW11

Christmas poker game with Noel J,  Dick,  Neppy, Frances and antie Ida, (Frances sister.) Chicago

Noel J, with two of his four children, 23 year old,
 Neppy and 11 year old Dick Williams.

Dick Williams, playing with one of his Christmas presents,a toy, WW ll, bomber plane. Dick was fascinated with speed and was the first kid in school, to have a motorcycle, when he was only 14 years old.  

Christmas 1965, Evelyn Williams, Nana, my dad, Bill, me, and Unk Ile, (TL Williams.)

Unk Ile and Nana, 1966.

Sharrie, Bill, Unk Ile, Billee, my mother, Pauline,
 Donna, Nana, Christmas, 1967.

Bill, Vince Aiken, Charlie Lewis as Santa, my mother,
 Pauline and Billee, 1967.

Debby Angel, Preston as Santa, and Billee, 1968.

 Christmas, 1969, Lido Isle, Newport Beach, California.

Nana at my dad's home in Palm Springs,
 California 1973.

My Baby Georgia, with Santa, 1978.

 Christmas Past with some of my Maybelline Family Cousins

Cousin Ann Louise Williams-Corbett, with Jimmy, Nancy, Chuck and and their father,  Noel A. Williams, Christmas 1961.

Noel A. Williams Christmas, 1967.

Chuck Williams BB1, 1967



Chuck and his mother, Jean Williams, Christmas, 1970.

Some of my Maybelline cousins.  Top row, Ann Louise Williams-Corbett, Christine Williams-Huber, Nancy Williams, Chuck Williams, James Williams-Huber, Julee Williams-Huber, Jimmy Williams.  Christmas, Montecito,  California, 1970. 

Nancy and Chuck Williams with cousin Ann Louise Williams-Corbett, 1970. 

Nan, (Eva,) Jerry, Marilyn and Dick Westhouse, Jackie Haines with baby Dave and Gramps, (Ches Haines) 

Dave Westhouse

Dave, Marilyn, Jerry and Dick Westhouse Christmas 1953

It's been 50 years ago this December since the Maybelline Co. sold to Plough Inc. It changed all of our lives in ways that we never expected. We were all kids and had the fun of going through the amazing experience together. You can read more about it in my memoir, The Maybelline Story and in my new book coming out next year. Stay tuned for more on that in 2018. 

Time stands still at ZACA LAKE.

Zaca Lake, in the 1970's, when it was owned by Bill Williams and Howard Olson.

This 10,000 year old green lake, filled with Catfish, relaxed the mind, into an almost trance like state.  There was something so magical about it, that even the most type-A personality could let go and find peace.

Even my father, Bill Williams let down his guard and became an entirely different person while at Zaca Lake.

Though I'm sure she kicked and screamed about the bugs, the heat, no phone or TV, Jean Williams, (BB1's, mother,) slowed down enough to actually get on a horse and ride to the top of Zaca's mountain.

It must have been worth the pain and suffering of riding their horses. to the top of Zaca for this stunning view.

In the Summer we were able to jump in the lake and swim or take a paddle boat out with our friends.  Here is my sister Billee tanning on the dock, with our family friend Gerry Marks.

In the Fall of 1975, Gene and I retreated to Zaca, to get away from his Law Practice and our crazy busy lives.

My close friend Asa and her husband Bruce Chandler, (from the LA Times family,) were brave enough to trust us and leave Newport beach, for a rustic weekend at Zaca Lake.

We told them it would be an hour up the mountain and an hour down.  They said OK, but when we got lost and the sun was setting, it became survival of the fittest.

Six grueling hours later, we were not only grateful to make it back to the lodge, we had never been so relaxed in our lives.

Zaca Lake Lodge.

One of the rustic cabins.

Inside the Lodge.

Asa, reading, in her cabin.

Gene starting a fire in our cabin, with Bruce.

Gene and Bruce in the game room.

Asa and me in the game room.

Check out this video... Zaca Lake is still exactly the same way it was in the 1940's when the lodge and cabins were built.  Time stands still at Zaca. 
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More Maybelline family, Christmas past, from the 60's and 70's.

Christmas past, with Noel J. and Frances Williams, branch of the Maybelline family.

Cousin Ann Louise Williams-Corbett, with Jimmy, Nancy, Chuck and and their father, Noel A. Williams, Christmas 1961.

Noel A. Williams Christmas, 1967.

BB1, Chuck Williams, Christmas, 1967.



Chuck and his mother, Jean Williams, Christmas, 1970.

Some of my Maybelline cousins.  Top row, Ann Louise Williams-Corbett, Christine Williams-Huber, Nancy Williams, Chuck Williams, James Williams-Huber, Julee Williams-Huber, Jimmy Williams.  Christmas, Montecito,  California, 1970.

Nancy and Chuck Williams with cousin Ann Louise Williams-Corbett, 1970.

Cousin Chuck and I will be bringing you more classic cars from the Maybelline family in January.  Some from his personal collection, as well as Tom Lyle Williams, 1940 Packard convertible, finally located, after 60 years.  Stay tuned for Fun Fun Fun in 2012!!!