Historic Hood River
Happy Thanksgiving
11-22-2023
Notes
It’s hard to beat this 1941 Alva Day turkey image, so let’s enjoy it again. Happy Thanksgiving from everyone at the History Museum of Hood River! Take lots of photographs of your celebrations, and don’t forget to label your prints and add metadata to your digital images.
I noticed this image was actually taken December 23rd, so there’s a reasonable chance Alva Day was visiting the farm to pick up Christmas dinner. This would have been just a few weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas that year it must have seemed like the whole world changed.
Historic Hood River will return next Monday with new images. In the meantime, you can spend the long weekend catching up on the 3200+ images in our archive.
Dale Nicol
Arthur, Happy Thanksgiving and I hope you have a plump bird for your dinner tomorrow.
Thanks for all of your hard work bringing these photo’s, once again, back to life.
nels
Thanks Arthur for all the photo history, as well as collecting more with the comments from so many. Historic Hood River, the weather site, and morning coffee makes our day. Maybe a good time to think on some of our dear contributors who have passed over but who still exist in their sharing of local history. It all makes for a community bound closer together in heart and mind.
Jeffrey Bryant
The Hood River Glacier, 1924-12-24, page 6, had an article of hen turkeys escaping from Hood River Market. They used to sell the turkeys live back in those days.
Arthur Babitz
I had a flash image of frozen turkeys running around the Rosauer’s parking lot.
L. E.
My husband’s grandparents raised turkeys for market. He said he hated it when they butchered because you hang it up side down, slit its throat and let it bleed out. He said they would blink their eyes at him.
I am not sure why you don’t just chop its head off like you do with a chicken.
L. E.
This morning, as I was getting the turkey ready to put in the oven, I remember the first store bought turkey I cooked. I pulled the neck out of the cavity and thought I had been robbed of the rest of the giblets. Whoever was carving the turkey before dinner, found a dry crusty paper bag of giblets in the neck cavity.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE and THANK YOU ARTHUR FOR THIS SITE!
Arlen L sheldrake
Suggest that the turkey is right up there with the moose on the ugly scale…….
I second L.E.’s appreciation for Arthur and this site!!!
This among other things are reasons to be thankful.
judy nelson
If you bought a turkey of that size at the local grocery, exactly how did you get it home?
Arthur Babitz
With a leash?
Judy
Some years my BD falls on Thanksgiving (11/22)
Also a time to remember JFK
nails
@ Arthur, choose your image, walking down the street with a turkey on leash, or driving through town with a turkey riding properly on the back seat, checking out the scenery on it’s way to the gallows.