Thanksgiving Maskers circa 1910
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Thanksgiving Maskers circa 1910
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Kathy Pinna
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Hooligans dressed as hooligans? These aren’t children dressed in Halloween costumes, but Thanksgiving maskers. Especially popular among New York City, children would wear often disturbing costumes, looking disheveled and homely, as they went door to door asking for sweets & pennies. By 1924, with the introduction of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Thanksgiving masking tradition slowly discontinued until eventually merging with the Halloween traditions of today.
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We dressed like hobos or gypsies because it was free and readily at hand!
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I've read that many young boys 'borrowed' their sister's dresses as well because it was an easy and free costume.
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My father told me that he did this as a child. He was a little boy in the 1940s and lived in Queens, NY. I have never known anyone that did this as a child. Thank you for posting!
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My parents grew up in Queens in the late 1930s and 40s and remember it well 😊
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Every generation had Their beautiful way of doing Halloween traditions some are kept some things has changed but never the Halloween it's self !!! Food for my thought!!
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You look like you've had plenty to eat. Won't someone please think of the starving children?
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Food for thought is just a expession like water under the bridge don't fight with me boy life is to short for both of us I would not to walk in ur shoes or u in mine!!!!
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Looks are very desiving !! Have not will travel chill pill is in ur need
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Who's Ian? Also, calling me "boy" is very racist, and I take offense to that.
Lighten up, son.
Lighten up, son.
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My mother in law was born in 1918 , when she was a kid they dressed like hobos and went to the stores and yelled trick or treat. The store owners would either give them a loaf of bread, buns, something like that or for a trick they would put pennies on a metal pan on the heater, oven fire and then throw the hot pennies out on the sidewalk. The kids would get burnt picking up the hot pennies but, no one cared because everyone was so poor they would grab them anyway.
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Yes it was done in Bushwick Brooklyn. Anythiong for thanksgiving? Pennies and candy. It was great fun. Bums and other mans clothes or womens and chaulk in socks to make a mess on the sidewalks and some walls. That was in the late forties into the fifties. Those were carefree days indeed.
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I'm a Founder of AncientFaces and support the community answering questions & helping members make connections to the past (thus my official title of Founder & Content and Community Director). For me, it's been a labor of love for over 20 years. I truly believe with all of my heart that everyone should be remembered for generations to come. I am 2nd generation San Jose and have seen a lot of changes in the area while growing up. We used to be known as the "Valley of Heart's Delight" (because the Valley was covered with orchards and there were many canneries to process the food grown here, which shipped all over the US) - now we have adopted the nickname "Capital of Silicon Valley" and Apple, Ebay, Adobe, Netflix, Facebook, and many more tech companies are within a few miles of my current home in Campbell (including AncientFaces). From a small town of 25,000, we have grown to 1 million plus. And when you add in all of the communities surrounding us (for instance, Saratoga, where I attended high school, living a block from our current Mayor), we are truly one of the big cities in the US. I am so very proud of my hometown. For more information see Kathy - Founder & Content and Community Director
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