Family Christmas Dinner in the mid-1950s
Get your hands off my sister bubba. (editor’s note: classic raven!)
Even the 7th Infantry DIvision in 1967 was part of the “War on Christmas.
Season Greetings indeed!
Christmas Tree in Southeast Asia
Daniel Boone and the pups.
Holiday Recipes and Pets
Lapassionara
These photos are wonderful. Thank you for posting!
HinTN
Hey, Raven, Merry Christmas. Thanks for sharing.
Martin
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Raven didn’t get a Red Ryder BB gun that Christmas.
also Raven’s family: we’d rather eat in the basement than not have everyone around the table. Good call.
JanieM
There’s that era again. The first one is a familiar scene–clothing, hairstyles, the whole aura–except for how Italian my gang looked.
The second one–does Santa bear a family resemblance to the two kids, or is that nose just a coincidence?
This is a nice set as it ranges through the years. These last couple of nights have made me want to get some of my old family photos scanned into digital format. All I need: another endless project.
ruemara
Raven, you’re Ralphie!
Benw
lol Raven! Cool pics
Yarrow
Love these. I really like the streamers in the family photo. Gotta make it festive. And raven you look like you’re going to slug Santa if it he doesn’t take his hands off your sister. She looks like she can handle herself, though.
stinger
Love these pictures! So Dan’l Boone had four dogs — who knew?
Pete Mack
Visiting my parents this year*, and today I shared duty with my mother. The result was an inadvertent Festivus feast. She made chicken thighs in coconut milk and garam masala Marinade. I fell back on my old stsndby: greens and beans served on polenta (yellow grits), as an acidic contrast to the sweet of coconut milk. Started with browned lemon slices, added onion and some mystery masala in a jar mislabeled piri piri. Then added chickpeas and dried mint. Finished up with turnip greens.** And finally topped it with pan-fried plaintain with lime juice. Huge success! Dessert was leftover apple crisp, using my recipe. (No flour–only rolled oats and chopped walnuts. Honey instead of brown sugar. Cardamom, cloves. allspice instead of cinnamon. And 2 oz of amaretto with the apples, cranberries, and lemon juice.)
* yes, I got a test before driving the 130 miles.
** the usual is cannellini beans and bacon with broccoli rabe. Lemons are the same.
Mary G
I bet LBJ demanded that Army Christmas card. Fuck him. My mom graduated from Austin High School in 1940. The program featured “our young Congressional Representative, Lyndon Baines Johnson” as the head speaker. I asked her if she remembered anything he said and she no, I hated that SOB, we just wanted him to shut up so we could celebrate.
sab
That Santa looks like he was about twenty years old.
raven
@Mary G: In those days Korea had and incredible market in all kinds of stuff they would produce. They could take black and white photo’s and colorize them, make personalized photo albums and attache cases, unit yearbooks, short-timer sticks and all kinds of other items that we would buy. It’s no mistake that they became such a high-tech nation, they were incredibly industrious and hard working people. Oh, fuck LBJ.
raven
@Martin: I have a picture of me shooting one with a cast on my left arm!