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Tag: Vintage Thanksgiving

Vintage Photos: Celebrating Thanksgiving-Part 3

Well it’s almost time again, time for Canadians to celebrate Thanksgiving. YAY! I love this time of the year and I’m excited to go home and eat everything in front of me 🙂 It will be bitter sweet though, as this will be the first family holiday without my beloved Omi 🙁 But I know she will be there in spirit raising a glass to all the family being together.

Now as you can read from the title, this is my 3rd installment of Vintage Photo Tuesday, Thanksgiving Edition. You can read my other posts below:


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Vintage Thanksgiving Photos 1920s-1960s

The table is set, so let us sit down and see what I found, shall we?

1950s vintage photo of a Thanksgiving Dinner Table filled with Turkey and the trimmings

Source: eBay

Here is some of the 1950s family that belongs to that pretty table setup above. Dad is getting ready to carve that turkey.

1950s thanksgiving dinner photo of a dad getting ready to carve the turkey

Source: eBay

Sisters at Thanksgiving, Betty and Martha, November 26, 1953. Let’s take a moment to enjoy the 1950s fashions and the 1950s Living room decor. LOVE IT!

1950s vintage thanksgiving photo featuring two women in 1950s fashion 1950s in a Mid Century living room talking to each other.

Source: Flickr

At the same Thanksgiving with cousins Roxie and Gail (in adorable matching dresses) and Aunt Martha (and we get a better look at the her beautiful purple 1950s dress).

1950s photo of a mother with her two kids during thanksgiving 1950s fashions

Source: Flickr

Cousins on Thanksgiving 1956. Roxie, Gail, Larry, David, and Kent at the Mather home in Santa Ana, November 22, 1956. What a cute family.

1950s photo of cousins together on thanksgiving in 1950s kids fashions

Source: Flickr

Thanksgiving Dinner 1968. That lamp so funky!

Thanksgiving dinner 1968 1960s fashions 1960s photo

Source: Flickr

1960s Photo: A family taking a moment to say thank you for the food they are about to eat.

Black family / African American family sitting around the table about to enjoy thanksgiving turkey

The kids table at Thanksgiving (1950s I believe).

Did you ever have to sit at the kids table? I did and sometimes as an adult as well. Ha Ha.

1950s 1960s thanksgiving photo of kids sitting at the kids table

Source: Flickr

1950s-Small family gathering around the table. Cozier the better.

1950s photo of a family gathered around the thanksgiving table 1950s life

Source: eBay

1950s photo of Dad getting ready to carve the turkey in his Dad apron.

carving the turkey on thanksgiving day. 1950s photos of a family around the table

Source: Etsy

1960s photo of a family showing the joy from knowing that a wonderful feast is about to be had with wonderful guests.

1960s vintage photo of a Black family in 1960s fashions enjoying Thanksgiving dinner together

To all my readers that celebrate Thanksgiving in Canada, enjoy your time with family and friends. To my readers in the United States, enjoy your time next month 🙂

QUESTION TIME: Do you have a family tradition that you do or a specific food that needs to be on the table? Share in the comments below.

Further Reading:

Liz

Vintage Photos-Celebrating Thanksgiving Part 2

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

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Liz