For Dickens’s contemporaries — the generation that created our modern Christmas, that is — the festive season was routinely snowy, generally bitterly cold and often a considerable trial. With his snow ...

It all starts with Dickens. As in Charles Dickens ... many of which features snow-drenched, old-timey (for the time) Christmas scenes, Smith said. Think Currier and Ives prints, which actually ...

is coming, but, still, I laugh when it does. While set in a snowy suburb of Chicago, Christmas Vacation was lensed primarily in sunny Los Angeles (along with a few exteriors shot in Colorado).