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!

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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.

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

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

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’.

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:

Vintage Easter Blog Posts 1920s-1960s (Archived Posts)

Take care everyone!

Liz

The Bunny Hop Dance History / Videos & Photos

Ahhhh the Bunny Hop a social dance that originated in the 1952 at Balboa High School in San Francisco. The dance is a variation on a conga line. Participants dance in a line, holding on to the hips of the person in front of them. They tap the floor two times with their right foot, then with their left foot, then they hop forwards, backwards, and finally three hops forward to finish the sequence, which continues throughout the tune. The first person in the line leads the group around the floor (Wikipedia).

Ray Anthony the bunny Hop — Photo courtesy of “Shelly’s Vintage Sheet Music“

The Bunny Hop Song:

The original song that everyone dances the Bunny Hop to was done by Ray Anthony’s big band recording, heard below.

See the Bunny Hop in Action:

Ray Anthony & his orchestra perform the 1950s dance sensation known as “The Bunny Hop” on this 1953 episode of The Ray Anthony Show (video link).

I think the Bunny Hop is too cute for words and no 1950’s party should be without a hop hop hop around the dance floor with your friends (try a vintage cocktail or two to help if doing this sober is not your thing lol).