You Want White or Dark Meat?  35 Vintage Images of Thanksgiving!

Nov 24, 2025 6:42 PM

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Pumpkin pie boy at the Thanksgiving bazaar at Calvary Methodist Church in Washington DC, 1957

Look at the layered Jello thing to the right, love his chef hat, 1953

Nobody puts Tom in a corner, I see that Mateus wine bottle, 1979

1972 spread, homemade cranberry sauce, very nice

Turkey and fruit, that's all you get, 1968

Sir, could you please wait until we land? 1949

Pilgrims on a...pilgrimage, 1965

1948

Bird is ready to stuff, 1960s

Tomato juice and celery, 1954

Midge with the cranberries, 1968

Lorne Greene and Betty White at the Macy's Parade, NYC, 1966

Turkey Derp, 1981

Pumpkin centerpiece, Knoxville, TN, 1949

The mint green Jello mold is eye-catching, 1976

I see a turkey and I want it painted black, 1957

Before the Christmas tree comes the Corn Tree! 1969

Musician Louis Armstrong with family and friends, 1948

Please stop rubbing yourselves on the raw bird, 1952

1955

NYC tenement kids eat a beef loaf instead of turkey and collect pennies, donating them for food for war-torn British kids, 1940

Don and Kathy, Albion, PA, 1979

The Lee family from Anaheim, CA, 1970 - love the neat placement of dishes

Paul waits by the table on Thanksgiving, more tomato juice and tiny cups of nuts! Elmira, NY, 1954

That's a Cher doll. I know because I had one, too. 1976

Chow - and how! 1958

I remember those brown dishes, note the broccoli server, Branson, MO, 1973

1951

The kid's table, 1959

Mary and her huge bowl, 1965

Ms. Glare at You and her date, 1958

Turkey hooker, 1970s

1950

Macy's Parade, NYC, 1941

The Watcher, 1964

Louis Armstrong

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#1 is Batboy.. IYKYK.

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#17 Shucks.

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Me on Thanksgiving as a kid: did y'all cook a ham oooor just the bird? Cool, cool... alright then just load me up with some sweet potatoes and green bean casserole, yeah go ahead and throw that whole pumpkin pie on there.

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#21 Brings tears to my eyes.

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I want to believe #2 and #3 are the same house, 20 years of renovations apart.

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It's a garbage holiday propped up because of its Black Friday priming ability; a feature so powerful for capitalism that, here in Australia, idiots are being suckered into black friday marketing.

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who crapped in your vegemite?

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They all ate turkey and now..........they're all dead

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Howtobasic?

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#12 The Voice of Doom.

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There’s a surprising lack of vegetables

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There's a surprising lack of natives

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Sitting at the kids table ... damnit, I'm angry all over again!

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#14 the face of the person who made that pumpkin centerpiece…. and the entire meal.

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Oh....My fucking god. My brain just now. "I wonder if anyone's grand mother thought 'God I wish that were me.' when he was up to his shoulder in that bird?" They were celebrities after all.

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1951 dude couldn't pull out of a driveway

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Before the days of condoms ???

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Do you like hot fudge sundaes?

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Yeah, but have you tried the lasagna? It's my favorite!

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Images from a lost world.

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Love these

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dont see Bruce Lee there ..

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#1 We're sure pumpkin pie boy isn't bat boy?

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It is. Not sure who is old enough to remember him.

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sure looks like it!

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#6 8 inch chef's knife on an airplane. That's wild.

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Airplane tix were more than a car back then, and a lot fewer people flew, plus just a few countries were mad with us counldnt just show up and board a plane, mostly because they didnt have the ease of communication or financial means. Hard to coordinate a 9-11 when your friends have to send a telegram to a place you need to haul on horseback for 2 days to read

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*picks up phone, dials 0* Hello, operator? Ring me through to EVerglade 6292, I need to co-ordinate this hijacking posthaste!"

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#10. Pretty sure those are bloody mary's

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For some reason, my mom always started with V8 or tomato juice for Sunday dinner or big meals like Thanksgiving.

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I get that,but none of the children in the pic have a glass

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"No, honey, that's mommy's special juice, you can't have any."

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#20 god, look at that wallpaper.

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My family was never so cool as to have a big frameless mirror in the living room. Embossed wallpaper, faux-wood paneling, and waterbeds? Now those were some real terrors.

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No, thanks.

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livin the good life

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It matches the couch.

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Oh good God! That entire interior is atrocious!!

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You mean "literally what your wine-drunk grandmother convinced your factory-worker grandfather looked good because maybe it'll distract from your pot-growing arsonist backbiting criminals that are your son" -chic? This kind of decor, while I hate it aesthetically, soothes me.

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That's dedication.

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