scenic pictures

The Calendar Event.

@celticeagle (189833)

Boise, Idaho

December 26, 2025 3:16pm CST

When I was a small child and living at my grandparent's place, I remember having the Union Pacific Railroad wall calendar pictures hung around the house. It was an annual thing that my grandmother would get a new calendar, and it was like an event opening it and looking at the beautiful scenic pictures topping each month's calendar. Dessert scenes, mountains, oceanic, and all manner of pictures from all over the United States. (This would have been in the mid 50s to early 60s.) This calendar was well used. First it was that year's calendar and then the pictures were carefully cut out and used as pictures around my grandparent's house. It was quite an event. The picture is from worthpoint.com

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• London, England

26 Dec

That's a good calender from 1960! I did not keep any past calenders.

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@celticeagle (189833)

• Boise, Idaho

26 Dec

Only if they had good pictures. I would save those.

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@Akutza90 (406)

• Semarang, Indonesia

27 Dec

In my village, if I had a lot of old calendars, I would probably sell them or make them into rice wrappers or peanut wrappers, because in my place they would become nests for rats and other animals.

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@celticeagle (189833)

• Boise, Idaho

28 Dec

@Akutza90 .......That's a good way to utilize them.

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@LindaOHio (222417)

• United States

27 Dec

I get a new free calendar every year from Thrivent. I remember a lot of different places giving out calendars in the 60s.

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@LindaOHio (222417)

• United States

29 Dec

@celticeagle Yes it was. Now it's too big of an expense for most.

@BarBaraPrz (51819)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

27 Dec

I've kept several old calendars precisely because I liked the pictures.

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@celticeagle (189833)

• Boise, Idaho

28 Dec

They are fantastic sights of America.

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@May2k8 (19788)

• Indonesia

27 Dec

Most of the calendars I got have historical elements but I don't keep them anymore.

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@celticeagle (189833)

• Boise, Idaho

28 Dec

Would be interesting to have back when we had to do history reports for school.

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@RebeccasFarm (91297)

• United States

27 Dec

Yes my Mom had those calendars but mainly they were beautiful photos of rural Ireland.

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@celticeagle (189833)

• Boise, Idaho

28 Dec

That would be something to see.

@DaddyEvil (174482)

• United States

27 Dec

We got free calendars from the bank and from church.

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@celticeagle (189833)

• Boise, Idaho

28 Dec

These I am speaking of were pretty large. Not the usual smaller ones we get now days. These were 23 by 121/4 inches.

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@DaddyEvil (174482)

• United States

28 Dec

@celticeagle Yes, the calendars with enough space in the box that you could actually make notes on the calendar.

@wolfgirl569 (135770)

• Marion, Ohio

26 Dec

They did have some wonderful pictures in them

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@celticeagle (189833)

• Boise, Idaho

28 Dec

Yes, they were amazing.

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@RasmaSandra (98004)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

26 Dec

My mom usually picked up free calendars from banks in our neighborhood,

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@JudyEv (382104)

• Rockingham, Australia

27 Dec

I remember using pictures from calendars on the covers of our school books. We had to cover the books with brown paper.

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@celticeagle (189833)

• Boise, Idaho

28 Dec

I remember doing that too.

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