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Category: vintage holidays


Oct
2018

Vintage Photos-Celebrating Thanksgiving Part 2

categories: Thanksgiving, vintage holidays, vintage images, Vintage Photo Tuesday
1950s vintage thanksgiving card illustration.

This weekend it’s Canadian Thanksgiving and I’m off to hop around Ontario to spend time with my families. It’s going to be a super time of eating, drinking and spending time with family. I CAN’T WAIT!

So for today’s ‘Vintage Photo Tuesday‘ I’m doing a Part 2 of an original post I did in 2016 entitled ‘Celebrating Thanksgiving‘.

Enjoy friends and Happy Thanksgiving to all that celebrate!

October 2023 Update! Here are more vintage images from this series:

Vintage Photos of Thanksgiving Festivities 1920s-1950s

Giant turkey, formica table and family. -1950s vintage photo

1950s Thanksgiving photo vintage image of family with turkey in the kitchen. They are posing in front of a formica table in 1950s fashions.

Source: Etsy

Dinner is Served! Another fun Formica table, but this time in front of a wood panel wall (so vintage). -1950s photo.

1950s Thanksgiving table set for dinner on a formica table in front of wood panneling wall and a 1950s fridge.

Source: Etsy

I’m pretty sure giving a little kid a big bone with meat on it is NOT something parents do anymore (ahhh how times have changed). -1958 photo

1950s vintage photo of a toddler in a high chair eating a turkey leg from 1958.

Source: Etsy

Everyone gather around the turkey as it comes out of the oven. Quite a sight to see! -1960s photo

1960s vintage photo of a Black family, pulling out the turkey out of the oven for celebrating thanksgiving together.

Source: Pinterest

Please turn and smile at the camera before we eat. Thanks! 1960s photo (not a thanksgiving photo, but there is a turky so I’m using it).

1960s vintage photo of a family in January 1960 posing together in late 1950s fashions about to eat a turkey for dinner. Our woman in the front kind of looks like Queen Elizabeth II

Source: Etsy

November 28, 1940. “Pumpkin pies and Thanksgiving dinner at the home of Mr. Timothy Levy Crouch, a Rogerene Quaker living in Ledyard, Connecticut.” Photo by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration.

1940s vintage photo: Pies in Repose November 28, 1940. Pumpkin pies and Thanksgiving dinner at the home of Mr. Timothy Levy Crouch, a Rogerene Quaker living in Ledyard, Connecticut. Photo by Jack Delano

1928 Thanksgiving themed window display of Universal gas ranges, 55 Adelaide Street East, Toronto.

1920s vintage photo of a 1928 Thanksgiving themed window display of Universal gas ranges, 55 Adelaide Street East Toronto Archives Fonds 1034, Item 498

Source: Toronto Archives-Fonds 1034, Item 498

Preparing Thanksgiving food baskets for the needy, 1954.

1950s vintage photo: Preparing Thanksgiving food baskets for the needy, 1954.

Source: Minnesota Historical Society

Camp Fire Girls setting the table in 1949.

1940s vintage photo: Camp Fire Girls setting the table, 1949 vintage thanksgiving photo

Source: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection

Patterns galore! Another NOT Thanksgiving photo, but I loved it so I wanted to share it. -1955 photo.

1950s vintage photo. 1955 Vintage Christmas dinner photo of a family sitting at the table mother in an apron.

The hungry guests are circling, better hurry up with the turkey! Photo circa 1950s. 

1950s vintage photo of an older woman getting ready to serve the Thanksgiving turkey in her 1950s kitchen.

Source: eBay

Side eye from mom to her sassy daughter in the most colourful 1950s dining room.

1950s vintage photo of a family sitting around their Thanksgiving dinner table in 1950s fashions.

Source: Pinterest

Thank you for stopping by friends!

1940s Thanksgiving card vintage thanksgiving
Source: eBay

Other Vintage Thanksgiving Posts:

Liz


Mar
2018

All Things Easter from the 1920s-60s Part 2

categories: Vintage Advertising, Vintage Easter, Vintage Fashion, vintage holidays, vintage images

Happy Easter Friends!

For today’s post I’m going to carry on the theme I started last year, with a roundup of all things that fall under the category, “Vintage Easter”. This will include photos, ads, kitschy vintage Easter items for sale and anything else I can find. Of course it’s all from the 1920’s to the 1960’s.

Okay friends let’s begin the Easter fun!

Disclosure: Some of the links on my blog from Etsy , eBay & Unique Vintage are Affiliate Links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase

Vintage Easter Shopping: I have a collection of Vintage Easter items for sale on Etsy that I update monthly. Happy Shopping!

Vintage Easter Images, Advertising, Recipes & More-Part 2!

1920’s – 1960’s

1950s Vintage Photo: Easter egg race winners, Gatineau Park, Quebec, 1957.

1950s Vintage Image of Easter egg race winners, Gatineau Park, Quebec, 1957
Source: Tumblr

Yummy Easter Egg Cake with Recipe (1953). Main ingredients: Swans Down Yellow Cake Mix and Baker’s Unsweetened Chocolate.

If any of my readers end up making this cake please let me know how it was!

FURTHER READING: Vintage Cooking Recipes as seen in Vintage Ads from the 1930s-1950s & Vintage Easter Advertising – The Food

1950s Vintage Food Advertisement / 1950s Easter Advertising featuring a 1953 Easter Egg cake recipe
Source: Tumblr

Easter Sunday, 1950 vintage photo featuring a very stylish woman all dressed up in her Easter best.

Further Reading: Do You Have An Easter Parade Hat?

John W. Mosley - Easter Sunday, c. 1950 vintage image of a Black woman all dressed up in a stylish 1950s coat and 1950s hat with fur.
Source: Tumblr

Blog Post by the Vintage Inn: Let’s do the Bunny Hop!

History, images and videos of everyone’s favourite holiday dance craze…The Bunny Hop!

The Bunny Hop history by the vintageinn blog

1940s vintage photo: “Then the Easter Eggs danced.” Easter Party held by Glen Taylor School, Walnut Creek, California in 1949 via Life Magazine.

1940s Vintage Photo: "Then the Easter Eggs danced." Easter Party held by Glen Taylor School, Walnut Creek, California in 1949 via Life Magazine.
Source: Retro Musings

“Mr. Bunny Paints the Eggs” -Vintage 1940s Children’s Book by Lee Maril Illustrated by Irena Lorentowicz.

Mr. Bunny Paints the Eggs Vintage 1940s Children's Book by Lee Maril Illustrated by Irena Lorentowicz
Source: Etsy
Mr. Bunny Paints the Eggs Vintage 1940s Children's Book by Lee Maril Illustrated by Irena Lorentowicz
Source: Etsy

1920s fashions on dispaly in this vintage Easter image from Washington, D.C. “Easter Sunday, 1925.”

1920s Vintage Photo: 1920s fashions on dispaly in this vintage Easter image from Washington, D.C. "Easter Sunday, 1925."
Source: National Photo Co

Milky Ways…my favourite! 1950s vintage Easter ad.

1950s Vintage Advertisement: Easter Ad for Milky Ways
Source: Pinterest

In London, the Easter eggs are bigger (1936). Cute 1930s photo of a 2 young girls holding giant Easter eggs.

Easter Shopping in London 1936. Cute 1930s photo of a 2 young girls holding giant Easter eggs.
Source: Tumblr

Easter egg colouring kit, 1940s.

Vintage Easter Egg Colouring Kit 1940
Source: Found in Mom’s Basement

Easter Greeting Card vintage ad from 1949 for ‘American Greeting Cards’.

Easter Greeting Card vintage ad from 1949 for 'American Greeting Cards'.
Source: Pinterest

Video of the famous NYC Easter Parade (1950).

Easter in Chicago, 1941. Fantastic 1940s hats, dresses and shoes!

Easter Parade Chicago 1941 featuring 3 well dressed Black women in 1940s hats, 1940s coats and 1940s dresses. Including fantastic stylish 1940s shoes.
Source: get bent

Easter Favourites…Chocolate! What is your fav treat during this time of the year? Share in the comments below.

Late 1930s early 1940s chocolate advertisement for Whitman's Chocolates. Vintage Ad.
Source: Found in my mom’s basement

Once again, Happy Easter! I hope you all have a lovely weekend doing whatever you traditionally (or not so traditonally do). I’m off to see the families, so lots of driving all over Ontario. Good thing I will have all that chocolate to keep my energy up.

FURTHER READING:

Take care everyone!

Liz