Thanksgiving in the 1950s - Life in America
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Thanksgiving and Christmas were so much better back in those days. It was all about family. Stores were closed on holidays and Sunday. It wasnt all about hurry up and eat so you go shopping like it is now.
I stay away from the stores the day after Thanksgiving and Christmas!
@@MisterMikeTexas me too
In many homes Thanksgiving was all about giving thanks- to God.
Amen ! It’s not America the way I grew up …
And football games on TV
I wasn't here until the 60's; but looking at the pictures in this video, I'm reminded of a time when things made sense.
Only to middle to upper class white straight or straight-passing Americans, the rest didn't have the luxury to enjoy the mid-century
Thank you so much for this video. As a 70 year old man this brought so many memories of my childhood!
I love this, I was born in the late 50s but this brings back memories from when I was a kid that grew up near Midway Airport in Chicago. The house decoration, the way the table was set, EVERYTHING. My grandparents came to U.S. from Poland in early 1900s. They would be so happy to see this vid. They worked hard to make this their new home for their daughters (one of which was my Mom) and subsequent children. I sure enjoyed this vid. TY :)
Born in the late 50’s too. Grew up in Park Forest, IL.
Yes.. but what about your kids memories
Both sides of my family also came from Poland about the same time. Both spoke only Polish, I never learned it. WIsh they had taught me but no one did. Only know few words. They all passed in the 1970s.
This was before Thanksgiving become an affair of consumerism and materialism. It used to be all about only family and friends not about finding the "best deal" the next day or when the clock struck 12:00am on the 26th.
Amen!
Anyone remember the leaf in the table?
That's what my grandmother called it.
You pull the table apart then insert something that makes the table bigger.
Or the kids sitting at a adjoining card table for the holidays.
@@jewelleryaddict
Haha yeah with cousins sisters and brothers.
At 73 these shorts from the 50's really take me back, thank you.
73 also. Your words mirror my thoughts.
And that's where you stay
and dept stores didn't open at 1 second past midnight for Black Friday sales.
I LOVE UA-cam .
I grew up in the 1960's. It was exactly like this in the 60's too. Everything mentioned was exactly the same. Back when America was a civilized nation and the American people were a civilized people.
hahahahahahahahaha
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I love this utube channel. It shows how many families gathered together and you can see the love and being thankful.
Healthy and Happy Thanksgiving to all. Thank you so much for the memories of days gone bye
Born in 52. A photo i have of thanksgiving with my older brother and parents could have been used in your video!! Thank you for compiling this! Brought back wonderful memories!
I have no memories of that time period, but I do have fond memories of later years. For my family, we would always go to church on Thanksgiving day and enjoyed a service of gratitude expressed for our blessings. Then, the church had a reception of light refreshments so people could linger and greet each other. Then, back home for a nice but simple dinner.
Two Thanksgivings stand out in my memory - one year we had a huge snowstorm on Thanksgiving, but my dad cleared the driveway with the snow blower and we went to church, and to my amazement, the church was full. Then, another time, I won a raffle for a Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings that served 10-12. My dad was gone, so it was just my mom and I. We invited people who had no one to share a meal with and had the blessing of sharing the dinner with others after church. The joy in their faces made it so worth it!
I remember a t.v. commercial where pumpkin pie was being served to family members on Thanksgiving day. The lite girl reported to her mother, "5 pie with cool whip, 2 without, and just cool whip for uncle Charlie!
Thank you for this ! My aunt and my mom would alternate the Thanksgiving and Christmas Day family dinners at their respective homes. My uncle would have to work on those days and we would wait for him to come home to start the dinner. I was born in "51 so I have fond memories of those times. Great times actually.
My strongest memory was one year we went to a restaurant ( think our oven wasn't working). I wanted to order something else but my Father, who had always spoken about the wonder of getting turkey at the front in 1944, said "It's Thanksgiving and you are having turkey, Damn it! We are Americans!" I had the turkey. The Greatest Generation.
I love that story! Thanks
@@Kevin-yh9yt So do I.
I have old 8mm film of our family’s Thanksgiving Day in the late 1950’s. Looks like this video.
The best turkey dinners ever. Miss you Mom! The twilight zone marathons was always a family deal
Thank you for bringing back such great memories. I miss my grandparents so much.
Loved the Vlog! My only problem is it’s never long enough. Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving.
I recall all those wonderful meals and how happy I was when I finally graduated from the kid table to the Adult Table when I was seven yrs old. All my memories flood back every Thanksgiving to many of those past Thanksgivings
One Thanksgiving Eve when I was a child, my grandfather was frustrated by my grandmother and my parents putting off going shopping for a turkey for the five of us. So, he picked-up his shotgun and a couple of shells, put on his jacket and boots, and went outside. I asked him what he was doing. "Turkey shopping", was his response. Soon, my grandmother came out all dressed-up for shopping. "Where's Johnny?", she asked. Before I could answer, we heard a "ka-blaamm!" from the woods. Soon, my grandfather came back with a headless turkey! All he said was, "The turkey's fresh. But, I'm frozen..."
This is so nostalgic, I was born in the 60's in Australia. It just seems that there was always time for family. Not this go here be there. Just love it.❤
I wasn't born until 1966 but sure enjoyed this. I'll show my mom this. She'd love it. ❤ Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 🐔 🍗
I always wonder if I will see a photo or two of families that are mine………..love your channel and your content. You make me feel young again
Lots of happy memories....
Growing up in Florida in the 1950s, Thanksgiving was family reunion time at our Dad's parents' big, two-story, lakefront home. And the weather was always warm and sunny.
Seldom seen cousins, aunts and uncles from Palatka and Miami would all be there.
Thank you.
I don't have any memories of Thanksgiving in the 1950's, being that I was born in June of 1959. But, my parents were teens in the early years of that decade. According to my Mom, her mom would start her holiday baking in November. I'm sure that my Dad's mom would do the same. Also, my Mom's dad would make a spiked holiday punch made with ice cream and rum. The neighbors would come to the house asking if Grandpa had made his punch yet.
I assume that my parents spent Thanksgiving with each set of their parents once they started their family in the mid-fifties. My grandparents loved to cook and both sides of my family enjoyed spending the holidays together.
Growing up, I remember having a bowl of nuts to snack on while waiting for the big meal to be served. I'm sure that was a tradition that my parents grew up with. For years my parents would get up early Thanksgiving morning to start preparing the family feast. First thing on the list, toasting bread for the stuffing. Then peeling the potatoes for the mash.
Between the 50's and 60's, Thanksgiving traditions didn't change very much, at least for my family.
Thank you for this Wonderful Video and the commentary you put together and delivered in such a Reminiscent way. Many of us remember when our families were young and were able to enjoy Thanksgiving together.
I wasn't born until 1967,but (What my grandma used to say all the time) "those were the good"ol days) they sure look like many I had when I was young.Thanksgivings are not the same as way back in my childhood. Love these videos.
I was born in 1950 and I remember my first Thanksgiving was when I was 4 at grandma's. Her old house was so big and the adults ate in the formal dinning room and the kids at the kitchen table. The house smelled so good. My grandma would start the day before fixing and preparing her dishes. The aunts would arrive with their families and would pitch in to help. Since I had 2 uncles who farmed veggies and meat for the table didn't go lacking. There was turkey, duck or goose, and some roast beef. My grandma's stove gas made in 1940. It was a take off of the old wood stove. It was big. It had 2 ovens, 6 burners and a warming box over the top. That was heated by the use of the oven(s). It had a vent pipe which vented into a hollow space under the warming cabinet. My grandma used this stove till she died at the age of 94. As for the veggies oh my the list was endless. It was like an open house between adults & kids sometimes as many as 30 people. (let me add generally there were 2 turkeys, 2 duck or geese or both and at huge hunk of roast beef) I remember the big table had 4 leafs. So to make it easy duplicates of almost everything was on each end. At the kids table the older kids help serve the younger and we had food on ours as well. After the huge meal generally desert was put off for a couple of hours. The main food was put away.
My grandma mostly raised me and she did me a huge favor. She taught me how to cook. This woman was the most wonderful cook. Cakes, pies, bisque's, breads and pastries it made no difference. I will always remember how sweet and loving she was. She made me the man I am today. That came from parking my feet under her table 365 days a year.
i was born in 65 and it was that way even then. I miss those days
My bestest memories reside in the late 50s-mid 60s.😁
I love watching these clips. I so wish I had been born much earlier than 1970.
My mom made the best stuffing. Was passed on down to all her mom's kids. One time we ate at my aunt's house on her side and the stuffing was exactly the same.
Love this channel
2:47 Adorable little girl! I love the expression on her face and her tongue hanging out! Lol
Yessssssssss!!! I wish it was like this now 😞 #saveamerica
Good Luck dealing with the Native Americans & vegans. 😰
Loved this…..brings many memories. More of my childhood memories of Thanksgiving relate to the 1960s but still loved this. It was a special family day for sure.
Sadly, a lot of us can't remember Thanksgiving dinners during the 50's because we were too young. That is why it's important to record or take photo pictures of these precious events.
I enjoyed Thanksgiving back to when I was 5 or so, With Family for years, Then 2003 on my Partner, He Died May 28th this year 2021, Won't be no celebration this year!
I love the 'creepy Halloween music' in the last half! I doubt that that's what you intended but my stoned ass heard it that way.
It’s a time where we as a large extended family would come together in our Cajun culture style and eat turkey, gumbo, rice dressing, veggies and desserts
Well done on reaching 100k
the three days after turkey sandwiches turkey hash lol
The smells! Oh! the smells that came from that kitchen! Turkey, gravy, pies & all the fixins!
Remember waiting anxiously to see carful of cousins drive up steep winding driveway. Putting olives on five fingers from silver relish tray. Playing rock school on stairway.
Good times, those of the video, when a family is in the dining room, nowadays this is a rarity.
I guess now for many, it is "drunk uncle" and football on the huge TVEEEEEEEE.
...and a few of the adults, including Grandma, stepping out to smoke weed. Lol
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Its interesting to see how the age of the people watching this get younger by year you go up, Hope you Will do the 80s as well
I was born in 1959 so I missed the 1950's, and did not have dress up in my Sunday best. What's up with the guy @5:14 that looks like he is wearing a prison uniform, got released for dinner?
that's pajamas.....he's probably ill.
Very different from the vegan tofu turkey and kale thanksgiving my girlfriend is having
Most of my brothers and sisters were born in the 50's. Mom would put on the big meal. Sisters would help. Aunts uncles and single friends of theirs would join us. 12 -14 people at the table, the Bird was massive. Football in the back yard for the lads. My first glass of wine was at T day dinner. Mogan David. Followed by cold duck. The fight was over the legs. Then we would all watch a movie on TV as the women cleaned up. Coffee and a glass of soda was served. I miss you mom. Thank you for all you did.
A nice tribute, Steve, and I say the same. We didn’t appreciate all the hard work our Moms did. Nothing is the same without those families…..
That was very sweet remembrance; sounds much like my own. Families (and especially Moms) were treasured at Thanksgiving.🙏🏻♥️
Steve O, I too share some of those same memories however I have to give it to some of the dads back then as well. Thanksgiving always found my dear old dad in the kitchen and it was always a turkey and a goose being cooked. My lovely mother was given the day off from cooking with the exception of making nothing other than what she wanted to dream up for desert. Who can't remember being banished to the kids card table and remembering that year that you finally made the grade to join the adult table. Holy shit the pressure of that first year at the adult table and being asked a question and marveling that they actually wanted an opinion from me. It was magical then and I can only hope that my grandchildren that share this incredible holiday with me harvest a memory from it and carry it with them until they too are trying to do the same to their own. Some traditions are carried through as I will be in the kitchen and my wife will be given the day off. Forget the deserts though, she will be making the bloody Marys and the mimosa's. Hope you all have a fantastic holiday season starting with this one.
Awwwww, so nice to thank your Mom. 💞
Awwww… so nice to see gender stereotypes were in full force
I look at the photos in these videos sometimes and wonder how the lives of the people in the pictures turned out, some of the kids in the photos from the 50's are still alive , wonder what their lives has been like.
And what has your reality turned out to be? They that are no longer here have no perspective as to what is to become. Stay asleep in your past and you will never awaken to your future!!! A simple fact
I was wondering the same thing. Or if any of the people in the old pictures on the videos watch them and recognize themselves or family members. I thought it was just me.
I was a kid in the 50’s & it was an amazing time!!
I really enjoy looking forward to the past with these Recollection Road trips.
The stories of us..
Well said. I was born in the mid 60's & our family Thanksgivings were similar to this video of the 50's. I think the family traditions are passed on thru the generations because they are fond memories. I continued them with my family & the torch has been passed. The stories of us.
I was born in 1950, and everything in this video was how I remember Thanksgiving growing up. Thank you for the sweet memories!
...I was born in the 50's, and I don't recall much, but in the 60's , I can remember my mother started the Dressing the night before, with the sourdough bread, and we always had crudites` , around 11, while things finished cooking, and we usually ate around 3 in the afternoon. Everything was homemade, even the biscuits. To my Mothers credit, she was a fabulous cook, and I still use some of her recipes to this day. Great post, thank you.
I am 73 years old now, I was born in 1948, and the fifties thanksgiving meal was everything you shared here and more. I miss those days.
Yeah I wasn't born till 1978 but I wish we could go back to those times it seems like a better world.
@@R-Lee- I agree!
I remember me, my brother, and our cousins having to sit at the kiddie table. It was a big thing when you graduated from the kiddie table to the adults table.
Its the little details in these photos that bring back such good memories. The dishes. The furniture. The clothing that people wore. The hairstyles. Its as if I was transported back to a long-ago gathering. And...I forgot how many kids everyone had back then!! Another great video, RR!! You are a UA-cam treasure.
i moved to central florida when i was 10, when i go back to new york the air is what really gets me,its different than here, and of course the trees and landscape and the water brings me back to my childhood.
first off congratulations on reaching 100k subscriptions. and I really enjoy your holiday edition videos. Its something special take a look in simpler times.
Wow such a nostalgic video.
The entire family at my grandmother's at her huge table.
I really miss those days even more now.
The food and family, back when football was worth watching.
Dunno, looking forward to the lions losing again.
Why isn’t football worth watching now?
@@HappyValleyDreamin From my POV, I don't need or appreciate any athlete using competitive sports like football, basketball and baseball as a forum to espouse their social comment and if I don't fall in line, well then I must be a racist. I get my direction from what I lived, read and acquire from debate. I don't want any athlete thinking I require their input. They are entertainers and nothing more; regardless what they believe. I no longer follow follow professional sports. Many other avenues of entertainment exist for me. Just saying.
@@LesterMoore oh, I see, I know what you are now!
@@HappyValleyDreamin and I recognize what you are now.
As kids we loved Thanksgiving, it was one of the few days of the year we ate as much as we wanted all day long. We were clueless as to how much work the women in the family put in to make the day happen, they made it all seem so effortless. Today I know the work it takes to put out a Thanksgiving spread, so one of the things I'm always grateful for is my family for providing me with such wonderful memories and traditions.
It was definitely a workday for women.
I remember singing "Over The River And Through The Woods" when I was little.
Me too. We sung it at primary school.
I loved Thanksgiving and Christmas growing up and as a young adult, but now my interest has diminished greatly. 🦃 🎅
Yeah it’s sad to see everything stripped away including American values. ... now everything is just racist 🤦🏼♂️
Me too. I just want it to be over.
Its not the same when you are older.
@Durango DeCarlo no it’s not the same. But the Lord God changes NOT
Great memories from long ago. Those good times are forever in my heart.
All we get to keep is the memories. They are beautiful. Thank you!
I wasn’t born until ‘56 but - at least in my recollection - my mom was easily up before dawn getting the turkey in the oven. How she made dinner for so many using only one oven and a four-burner stove is a mystery. I have two ovens and a five-burner Thermidor range and I will be damned if I can duplicate her Thanksgiving dinners. I hate pumpkin pie which is a shame as my mom was famous for her pumpkin pies but for me the real treat were her homemade Parker House rolls. Those warm, pillowy rolls were legendary. 🦃
SAME - I've seen countless home remodel television programs where people look at a 4-burner stove and say, "It's too small, I can't cook on it."
But she did. Same here.
I don't know about your mom, but my mom and grandma would have some things made several days in advance and frozen or refrigerated so they only needed to be heated up. Warming ovens also used to be a help. It also was sometimes a thing that a family would have an old wood or coal range still available. My grandma had one in the basement, and my mom still had a coal range in the kitchen, so the stove could be supplemented.
I remember loving these holidays. Going to Grandma's house or later my Mom hosting the dinners. All the good recipes that you wished you had asked for. Thanks for sharing. I really enjoy your channel.
Being born in 1953 I vaguely remember Thanksgiving in late 50's. Turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, scalloped potatoes, sweet potato with marshmallow, cranberry sauce, gravy, peas and carrots, and pumpkin pie with whipped cream. I do miss my mom and her great cooking. She really knew how to throw a great turkey day!!!
Having been born in the middle 40s, I have plenty of memories of Thanksgivings during the 50s. We usually had the meal with my mother's side of the family, who still lived in NJ (we had moved to CT). I enjoyed the ride to and from there, but none of my cousins were my age, so I was mainly on my own. I loved the big, old house where we once lived; my aunt & uncle moved into it after we left. We cooked a rather unusual dressing in the turkey that was made from the raw liver and was stuffed under the skin of the breast. I've never seen it anywhere else and had forgotten the recipe during the years I was married. I put the recipe back together in my head by "watching" my mother preparing it in my mind's eye (sometimes I use it when I roast a chicken). Nowadays, I'm invited over to my daughter's house for the meal. If it doesn't snow, I'm looking forward to it (too much lousy arthritis to clear a bunch of snow off the car any more). I have a frozen turkey breast in my freezer, just in case. Either way, I'm looking forward to making sandwiches with the leftover white meat: Wonder Bread, Miracle Whip, meat, salt & pepper. These sandwiches were as much a Thanksgiving tradition as anything else. This time of year always brings back all the memories.
Yeah my dad made the gravy out of the neck,gizzard and liver that came with the turkey in a little bag. it was bitter, oily and left a coating on your throat, i really miss it though. all the store bought stuff you get is so sweet.and you're so right- the leftover turkey sandwiches are the best;we were always hellmans mayonaise people,not so much on miracle whip. sometimes in the middle of the long hot summers we have here in central florida i'll make up a couple of turkey sandwiches, with a can of cranberry sauce saved in the pantry from the holidays, and tell myself to just carry on, the holidays [and some cool weather] come every year !
Great story. Thank you, fellow American.
Took me over 25 years but I finally learned how to make homemade turkey gravy. It's so delicious. I always make a lot of food because I love the leftovers, especially the turkey sandwiches.
My Mom told me the first turkey she made was in 1962 (I was born in 63). Major difference from a roast chicken size wise. She checked to see if it would fit in her granite roaster, not a chance. So, she bought an open roasting pan for $2.98 it is a Bake King. That roasting pan has been used for turkeys, countless pans of fried chicken and stuffed cabbage plus cakes over the years. I still have the pan. Thank you Mom for all the love and all the unappreciated hard work you put into all the delicious food you made for us.
A joy to behold Thanksgiving during the post-war Eisenhower era.
OMG! LOVE THIS!!! That was a magical time!! I was born in 1970 but my grandmother taught me a lot about traditions and she always told me “Courtney you have an old soul” I agree!! 💗💗💯
Since I was born in 1968, I have no memories of Thanksgiving dinners in the 1950s. However, other than who comes to dinner, things haven't changed at all at my house. We still put out a big spread for the family members that are still with us and remember those that have passed. I've never understood the infatuation with green bean casserole though. I can't stand the stuff!
Families need to each dinner together and give prayers at meals . Bring God back into the home and into your heart . ❤
Amen!
Amen
It was still like this in the sixties and seventies. The meal was delicious, the conversation was kind and warm, and folks looked pretty around the table. It was definitely not a time to be lectured on leftist politics by pajama boy, nor for the entire family to be absorbed in the TV or cell phones. It was a time to be with people we loved and didn't get to see every day. I so miss those days. We always had Thanksgiving with my maternal grandparents. Grandma made PA Dutch potatoes filling, corn pudding, at least once she made stewed dried corn, green bean casserole, turkey, sweet potato casserole with marshmallows, cranberry sauce, scratch pumpkin pie and mince pie. I have made my daughter a cookbook with all grandma's recipes in it. She has taken it even a step farther, as today she made scratch mushroom soup for the green bean casserole. We grew our own beans, our own pumpkin, and our own celery for dinner. The tradition will go on.
Thanks for sharing this with us. It brings back memories of my life and times. Well done sir.
God bless the days of the American nuclear-family !
Before everything went to s***.
Watching this brought tears of joy as I remember our thanksgiving with all the relatives at our house as we lived in the middle of Calif all the great food and special treats only on thanksgiving like smoked oysters cheese and crackers and other things but all the people that made it so great are all gone and I'm lucky if I have a meal with one of my children
Hey, I'm 74, and I can still smell mom's turkeys roasting. Life was simpler then.
Most of the Thanksgivings I remember as a child were in the early 60's. They were pretty much as you posted. A great time for family and food. So many fond memories. Thanks again for all you do!
Wait! Where was the 'little table', the one for the kids? It was usually just a card table. We all had to wait our turn to sit at the grownups' table.
I saw it at 3:31
@@scrumsey You're right. I totally missed it.
Yep, I was at the card table, too
*@**5:11** Yeah, we invited an escaped convict to join us at our Thanksgiving too!!*
Can't quite recall the 50's but I do remember the 60's. My mother despised anything traditional and she hated turkey, so no two Thanksgivings were ever alike. I recall Chinese take-out for one meal and a picnic at the beach for another. I also recall my stepdad cooking steaks over a grill on a sailboat for Thanksgiving. Another time the meal was lobster and yet another it was lasagna. It sounds fun and sometimes I suppose it was but we never had family joining us for the meal and I always just wished we could have had comfortable traditions like other folks.
Yes. The burden of having creative folks as parents. Lots of quirkiness, but no stability.
@@howtubeable Surprisingly, there is a great deal to be said for stability and tradition.
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I understand what you mean. When I was young my Thanksgivings were exactly like those pictured, but during my college and young adult years they were like you describe. I tried to put on a brave face but to be honest I hated them. Our family was scattered.
Now, with my husband's family and my family, we have stability again.
My parents thought that a lot of that was exciting and we did see a lot of the world but quite honestly I often felt lost.
I was born in 57 so I don’t remember the 50’s Thanksgivings. I have many many memories of Thanksgiving dinners every year either at a grandparents house or my parents later from the 60’s to mid 2000’s. My mom bought an electric knife that still works today. My dad liked cutting the turkey. He would stand by the kitchen counter cutting the turkey. He wasn’t the best at it. We would have the family dogs standing behind him as pieces of turkey flew off the counter with his cutting. lol The dogs were grabbing the pieces as they flew off the counter. My dad is gone now as are the three dogs. But great memories! Our family is much smaller now but we have three new dogs and my BIL cuts the turkey. Much neater but still using the 1966 Oster electric knife in the original box.
Those kitchen gadgets were made in America and were made to last unlike today. We still use our Dormeyer mixer from the 1950s made of all stainless steel and chrome without plastic parts. Works as good today as when it was made.
I'm 69, and this perfectly describes my Thanksgiving memory. We'd either entertain my aunt and uncle's family, or go to their home 60 miles away. The tradition continued when as an adult I had my own family, only we'd often invite someone who was single to dinner. My favorite holiday to this day.
Imagine listening to a parade on the radio today 😂
Love the old photos, especially the real family photos. Everyone got dressed up. You hardly see that anymore. Sad. If you've never watched the movie, 'Avalon' do yourself a favor and watch it. It basically shows the decline of the family unit as technology came along. Families no longer spend what I would call 'quality time' together anymore. I miss the old days.
I was born in the 60’s and thus was the America that I loved and enjoyed growing up as a kid. We did this exact ritual ! right down to mom making us dress up. To date, I make a quiche the day before for Thanksgiving morning breakfast with a large pot of perked coffee, we sit around and watch the parade. Then I get started on the dinner. I don’t think much has changed over the decades with the exception of stores ridiculously being opened on Thanksgiving day, which we absolutely DO NOT participate in. Many family members have passed away over the decades and we miss all being together as a large family but we still carry on the tradition.
always too many for a formal sit down dinner, it was always Buffet, standing in line, waiting your turn, hoping the dinner rolls would still be there when you got to the end of the spread, always Parker House Rolls, yams with marshmallows, cranberry jello mold made with cherries and cream cheese with minced celery and nuts. ... baked pineapple, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn and peas with tiny onions, dressing from INSIDE the Bird. Pumpkin pie, pecan pie and sweet potato pie. Southern Thanksgivings were more calor-ific than Northern tables, I'm sure.
I was born in 42 so I pretty much remember the 50s my mom was a good cook so I sure enjoyed the Thanksgiving dinner we got a TV in 57 that’s when I started watching the parade and I watch it every year since then so that’s a lot of years Hope everyone has a great holiday free of the coronavirus
How about some sequels to "Thanksgiving in the 1950's"? For example, "Thanksgiving in the 1960's," "Thanksgiving in the 1970's," "Thanksgiving in the 1980's," "Thanksgiving in the 1990's," and finally, "Thanksgiving in the Twenty-First Century." But there's only one problem. You forgot to do "Halloween in the 1990's"!!! Please say yes.
I've been enjoying some of these themed period photo albums. Nice. Nostalgic. Thanks.
I was born in 1956 so the 60s were my wonder years. And the holiday celebrations were still very much as they were shown here. I miss so many of my family members. My parents and grandparents are long gone, lost contact with other family years ago. It was a different and magical time. I miss them and those times.
Hello my friend.
I was born in 1954 . I appreciate very much your content here on this channel. It has many times made my day.
STUFFING!!! You forgot the stuffing!!!
Got the kiddie table right on though.
Happy Thanksgiving to all, have a safe one.
Oh yes, God Bless the STUFFING !
I'm the only one in my neighborhood to STILL have "fall decor" and Thanksgiving decorations outside my home. Halloween was just a week ago and people are already displaying Christmas decorations. Shame on people for smoldering out this wonderful American holiday!
My son-in-law and I were just talking about this. Well, we talked about Christmas music. There's a radio station here in central Florida (Magic 107.7) that has played Christmas music non-stop from the day after Thanksgiving until Christmas for about twenty years.
Last year and again this year they started playing the Christmas music at the beginning of November. Really? Why must they ignore Thanksgiving? I know there's very, very few Thanksgiving songs but at least let people enjoy the fall season and Thanksgiving!
the holiday that you are speaking of has been replaced by "Black Friday".
It’s sad and scary how America has lost its way & traditions.
It's not just America sadly.
Its very sad indeed
You find that scary to you? There's actually a very good reason why we "lost" these 'traditions' especially the entire Holiday itself is a celebration of genocide of Native Americans which is why it should be left in the past where it belongs.
@@zonilo1 there was an innocence at this time. It doesn't make what happened in the past alright. In Australia where I'm from it's just as disgusting what happened to the Aboriginal people when the First Fleet arrived. I can not be responsible for my forefathers actions, I can only make what is now better. Spreading hatred will not change history.
@@zonilo1 Bug off.
A few years ago, I baked my first 🎃pumpkin-pie....wondered why you have the saying "easy as pumpkin-pie", because I didn't find it easy: Had to make the "Mürbeteig"-dough, spread it in the tin, carve the pumpkin, blend the filling...then I found out that, on your side of the pond, you can just buy pre-fixed dough in an aluminium-dish and can just plop in the cakefilling from a tin! 🤦♂️Sure, THAT is easy, Daah....😆
I had the best childhood. I was born in 1959. It was always about family and family traditions. My parents made sure every holiday was joyful. I can’t tell you how much I miss my parents.
Thanksgiving in the 50’-70’s at Grandparents grandmother Granddad preacher 9children 9 spouses 24 cousin more by 70’s couldn’t hear anything every one top this yack when I was little adults ate first by the 70’s adults and children ate first moms later I could always count on aunt Doris for apple peels from fruit salad no one else have never made the cornbreadsage dressing like grandmother and great grandmother they put ham dripping in it a lot a very special flavor pie and cakes side dishes turkeys ham roast later we added brisket traditional TeXaS you know very few left only 2 uncles oldest uncle made it to 100 this year 100 and 2 weeks that was a teacher principal you couldn’t keep him off the tractor or riding lawnmower had to pull out of mud 8 times this past summer