Happy Easter everyone! We had so much fun with Easter greetings of yesteryear the last time we did this, I thought I’d run “part 2” again for this year. I was laughing so hard trying to narrow down which of these cards to share–there are so many and whoever created these had some very odd ideas about “Easter appropriate-ness” (is that even a word?)
Nothing says Easter like a movie celeb on the red carpet with her pet lamb. Pink gloves set off the royal blue ensemble, as the bellman hurries behind her with all her bags, thinking, “HURRY UP! THESE THINGS ARE HEAVY!” But the lamb is taking his time, and my goodness, it looks as if there are autographs to be signed, as well! I wonder if the facility is “animal friendly”… I think this one is really odd…she’s carrying a basket of flowers…strange lady.
Here’s the second picture I thought I would just have to include. What is wrong with this picture? Okay, let’s take a quick look. All the dancing rabbits are male. All the dancing chicks are female. We aren’t sure what sex the orchestra is, but they look to be all male chicks. Why aren’t there any female bunnies? Why are the female chicks having to dance with male rabbits rather than male chicks…Something is dreadfully wrong here…
After the ball is over…well now we know why there were no female bunnies to dance with, don’t we? They were home, keeping their cracked eggshell houses clean, missing all the fun. Then Sparky comes home from the dance and wants to know why Delilah is so upset with him. “Let’s see…we live in a cracked eggshell house we can’t even move around in…I’ve put on my Easter shawl, and you have dressed in your finery and gone dancing with a bunch of floozy chicks. Need I say more?”
Poor little tyke! Out on the ocean sailing in an eggshell all alone. It’s looking like a storm is brewing, and the waves are kind of choppy. Way too cool to be out there with that short-sleeved outfit on and…wait a minute. See that pole with the flag on it? I wonder if that goes all the way through the bottom of that eggshell…
What in tarnation is in those steins? Lemonade, you say? I think we better look a little closer. Yeah, lemonade doesn’t come in kegs! Perhaps THIS is where all the male chicks got off to when the band was playing earlier!
I couldn’t resist this one again…it’s from last year, but it’s just so bizarre, I had to show it again. The fairy pied piper, leading the unsuspecting chicks…well, you know. “Best Easter Wishes” my foot.
Hope you all had a wonderful Easter! How did you spend it this year? Big family dinner? Ours was very low-key with a short visit with my daughter. Does anyone have favorite Easter memories to share? Mine always included dyeing the eggs and hunting for them when I got together with all my cousins at my grandparents’ house. What is your favorite Easter memory?
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Cute narrative about the cards. Thanks.
Thanks, Janice! This was a fun one to do, and wow…some of these cards! LOL Hope you had a great Easter!
I loved the cards. I did spend my time with my family and I colored eggs. I do every year.
GREAT! I saw my daughter for a short while, but my son and d-i-l had plans with her family. We enjoyed a really quiet day yesterday!
I loved watching my children searching for Easter eggs when they were little!
Kathleen, I did, too, but my confession is that I would love to be out searching for eggs right now! LOL
I had to laugh at some of these, Cheryl, and of course, your interpretation of them. I suspect back then, no one even questioned the artists’ perspectives, but they are um, a bit odd, aren’t they?
We celebrated with a big family dinner with way too much food (hmm. Appetites ruined by too much candy?) and then an Easter egg hunt with 300 eggs in our back yard. All that time filling eggs, and the hunt is over in seconds. LOL.
Happy Easter, my sister filly!
Pam…I had a brief thought about you guys having 300 chicken eggs instead of filled plastic ones haha…
Rachel, that made me laugh!
HAHAHAAAAA ! I remember my mom and my aunts filling eggs for us cousins to hunt when we’d go down for Easter to my grandparents’ house! WHAT A GREAT TIME WE HAD! I’m so glad you had some good family time, Pam. Right now, my kids both have such weird work schedules and other stuff they are doing that it’s hard to get a time when we are all available to get together. Sounds like you had a wonderful Easter! Love you, filly sis!
Cheryl, Thank you for sharing this fun post! I celebrated Passover Friday evening with friends at a Seder. Resurrection morning, I attended a Sunrise Service and continued the celebration with my church family.
Caryl, what a lovely way to spend the time this weekend! I think I’ve been to one Sunrise Service in my entire life, and it was really beautiful!
Welcome today. This was a fun post and your comments on each really made it so. One of my favorite Easter memories was our family of seven would go to grandmas house after church. Mom would bring clothes for us to change out of our Easter outfits into for fun. Grandma always had a huge pot of eggs that she had made ahead of time and after we changed we could then sit down and color them with help from grandma and grandpa and mom and dad. They had a large back yard and when it was time to hide the eggs, my dad always stayed in the house to make sure us five kids didnt watch out the windows. LOL When it was time to hunt eggs there were always baskets and gifts that had our names on them. If we found one of these and it wasnt our name, we just left it and went on. Grandma and mom always made so much food. It was a long but wonderful day with family. And another big memory was that every year mom would make each of us a new Easter outfit. April and I always got a dress and hat and the three boys would get seersucker shorts and jackets (until they started getting older and then they would get store bought slacks and mom would make a shirt)
Lori, what wonderful memories! My mom was a seamstress, too, and would make our Easter dresses quite often. She did lovely work and it was done to perfection each and every time. There were three of us girls, even though my sisters were 10 and 12 years older than I was–we all got wonderful, beautiful dresses. Mom was the oldest of 11 kids and really learned to do so many things because of that and being raised during the Depression. She could “make do” with next to nothing. I remember how some of the adults would have to watch us kids to keep us from looking out the windows, too, while the others hid the eggs. LOL I was so thrilled to just be able to go be with so many cousins that I didn’t get to see very often except on holidays. Of course, there was always a huge meal and lots of laughter and fun with that many all together. Very good times. I love looking back on those days!
I spent Easter at church in the morning, then went to a friend’s house for dinner in the afternoon, and ended up spending 5 hours talking with her! We would both have been alone, and we really enjoyed ourselves!!
Trudy, that is GREAT! I have a dear friend like that from elementary school days. She lived across the street from me from 3rd grade through my junior year when we moved due to my dad’s transfer. I don’t get to see her often now, but we sure do enjoy the times when we DO get together! Friends like that are such a GIFT.
I can’t help but love the first one…super evocative of graphics from that era…
To this day, whenever I try on a new hat I remember an Easter hat that pinched my head enough to make it ache when I was about six years old. But I didn’t mention the problem and wore that sucker to church because it matched my new little Easter purse. Probably had a handkerchief, a pencil and piece of paper (to entertain myself during the sermon, my dad was the pastor) and a nickel for the offering plate in it.
HAHAHAHAAAA! RACHEL!!!! You sound just like me!!!!! Yes, we always had a little white Easter hat of some kind, and those little anklets and Mary Jane white patent shoes, and I remember my mom bought me a tiny little purse that was oval and had kind of a hard material that made up the body of the purse, so it was like a decorative little oval box, and I could put MY little pencil and pad of paper and handkerchief in it and my nickel! Oh, those were the days!!!!!
The area where I grew up in Northeastern NY didn’t have Easter egg hunts at least not that we knew of. Probably because we were hoping it was more like spring than winter. I remember one sunrise service on a hill in a neighbor’s pasture where there was a snowdrift remaining at the bottom of the cross. It was mid-April. The rest of the field was a bit soggy. My mother-in-law always hid eggs for our girls to hunt in her yard after church. Here in Central Washington we are usually well into spring.
Cheryl, thanks for the laughs. What were these card makers thinking?
Alice, I did a “part one” of these crazy Easter cards a few years back, AND one about vintage Christmas cards–man, some of those are downright disturbing! You have to wonder WHO would have bought these and sent them????? Good grief!
You sure have a lot of beautiful memories. I have so many of when I WAS a kid, and when I HAD kids. Now, we are homebodies and I have no grandchildren, so usually we just spend a quiet day at home, resting. And this year I needed it because we have been shopping for a new couch and I think we have walked 120 miles in about 3 days just looking. LOL
Shopping for our Easter outfits; baking cookies and pies with my Mom are some of my favorite memories. Oh, and then delivering the baked goodies and visiting with my Grandparents; Aunts and Uncles are also treasured memories.
Lynn, my mom did a lot of baking at Easter, too, and of course we always tried to make the trip down to my grandparents’ houses for Easter. Both sets of my grandparents lived in the same small town, as well as many of my aunts and uncles and cousins from both sides of the family. So being the only little chick at home after age 8, I was so thrilled to get to see all of them whenever we would be able to go.
Hi, wow, these Easter cards are really different. We had Easter dinner with our daughter, son in law and our 2 grandchildren that live in our same town. Our son and his little family live 6 hours away. When I was your and at home our parents would get us 6 kids Easter outfits, they would get us baskets and then they would take us Easter egg hunting, the race track from our hometown would hold an Easter egg hunt every Easter and our parents would take us to them. It was alot of fun!
Alicia, what a great memory, and what fun you must have had in your family with 6 kids! I always wished for a younger brother or sister–my sisters were out of the house by the time I was 8 and I really tried my best to get Mom and Dad to have me a younger sibling–EVEN IF THEY HAD A BROTHER! LOL But it was not to be. Easter is really family time, isn’t it. Glad you have your daughter and her family that live close enough to come over and celebrate with you!
Thank you for sharing the old cards. I remember seeing some of them from my aunts to my grandmother. We had a low key Easter just my husband and I . When I was a child, we would have big family dinners after church. There would be Easter egg hunts. God bless you.
Hi Debbie! I’m so glad you enjoyed these cards. I get a laugh out of them every time I look at them. There are TONS of them on the internet…you really have to wonder what was in these artists’ minds. I love Easter egg hunts. I mentioned earlier, I would still go out and hunt eggs if I could get Gary to hide them from me. LOL Thank you for stopping by!
I love love love the first one! I want a print copy of that one.
I see from her labelled luggage her name is “Gay Spring”–it’s Lady Spring, herself! So that explains the lamb and flower basket anyways. It looks like everyone is very excited for her arrival, and who can blame them? 😀
Coincidentally, I just read a Nancy Drew where one of Nancy’s friends is named Gay; it’s such a pretty, old-fashioned girl name, don’t you think?
Happy Easter! And hello, Spring!
I love that one too, Abby! I do love the name Gay–very old-fashioned and just “happy”–I had a friend in grade school named Gay! Happy Easter, and YAY SPRING!
Love the oddities of the vintage photos.
Just had a low-key Easter with three of us. Church and stuff at home.
denise
Denise, ours was low-key too, and I really enjoyed it. Yes, those vintage cards are really interesting aren’t they? I love them. LOL
It is strange how many of the cards be Easter cards in our current idea of what Easter is or is represented.
This year we were on the road. We have a reunion in San Antonio next week. We came to Tucson, AZ to visit a friend first. (Doesn’t everyone go from TN to AZ to get to TX?) We arrived here on Easter Sunday. She has no family here but had decorated the house very nicely. We had a simple meal since our arrival time was a big question.
I hadn’t thought of it in a very long time, but for most Easters when I was a child, we did not get baskets. My mother would get the large (6 oz or so) filled eggs. She would put our names on them and hide them. In the morning, we would all look for our egg, the rule being if we found someone else’s we would leave it alone and not tell them. It was fun and we had enough candy not to miss a basket full.
Hi Patricia! Your Easter sounds just perfect–travel, seeing old friends, and eating a good meal together!
Since I was the only one at home at an early age, I remember getting an Easter basket every Easter. My mom would have me set my basket out (remember those brightly colored plastic baskets?) the night before and when I got up the next morning it would be filled with goodies. Chocolate bunny, Hershey’s kisses, and of course, an egg with some kind of filling in it. My mom loved those great big chocolate eggs with filling in them, but she loved coconut and I didn’t. So I remember many years, she’d buy one of those for herself and didn’t ever have to worry about me wanting any of it when I’d eaten all my own stuff! LOL
So glad you stopped by, and that you had a wonderful Easter and safe travels! Hugs!