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In reply to the discussion: Things I don't miss about old-fashioned, Norman Rockwell era Thanksgivings. [View all]cynatnite
(31,011 posts)11. We never had Thanksgivings like those...
One of my uncles always drank too much. Most of the guys and a couple of my aunts played poker in the garage/Thanksgiving dining room after eating. The room would have an aroma of a pipe and cigar smoke. Not too much, either. My cousins and I would watch the Thanksgiving parade until it was time to eat and then our cousins would chase us out to watch football.
Us kids usually wound up playing on the living room floor while my mother, her sister and my grandmother sipped wine, laughed and got us all pies.
It wasn't a perfect Rockwell Thanksgiving, but it wasn't all bad either.
I hate it when these comparisons get made. I don't think they ever really existed in the first place.
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Things I don't miss about old-fashioned, Norman Rockwell era Thanksgivings. [View all]
pnwmom
Nov 2013
OP
That picture was of the little girl during segregation when she had to be escorted into a school
monmouth3
Nov 2013
#4
I don't see how people with straight, reddish hair can be read as racially ambiguous.
LeftyMom
Nov 2013
#18
I don't understand your post. Are you suggesting that the people in this picture were NOT
Number23
Nov 2013
#19
Norman Rockwell has some great paintings about Civil Rights, but in this pic both are White
JI7
Nov 2013
#20
Only one of those I saw was the first and escaped that fate by hanging out with the men.
freshwest
Nov 2013
#12
Not too long ago, someone started an OP suggesting that Charles Shulz was racist...
WorseBeforeBetter
Nov 2013
#17
Norman Rockwell was a strong progressive who supported FDR and Civil Rights.
Drunken Irishman
Nov 2013
#25