For this year’s A to Z Challenge, I will be posting an event for that date involving someone in my family tree. Of course it will also involve the letter of the day. It may be a birth, a death, a christening, a journal entry, a letter or a newspaper article. If the entry is a news item, it will be transcribed immediately below. Click on photographs to enlarge in another window.
Were there Easter baskets back in the 1920s? Yes there were. You could get fillers or buy a ready made basket. I remember my Grandmother Pearl Cleage gave us ready made Easter Baskets in the 1950s .
One hundred years ago, it was Easter Sunday and my father and his family were ready for church. They were members of St. John’s Presbyterian church, in Detroit, Michigan. My grandparents Albert and Pearl Cleage were founding members. Just a few weeks ago, I wrote about my Cleage family 100 years ago. You can read it at THE CLEAGES 100 YEARS AGO – 1925.
I recall getting all new clothes for Easter Sunday. Times have truly changed.
I do too. Don’t people who attend church still get new clothes for Easter?
i had no idea your grandparents were founding members of a church!
Both sets of. Grandparents were founding members of different Detroit churches. The Cleages were also founding members of Witherspoon United Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis. And of course they were founding members of Central Congregational Church. It later became the Shrine.
Great pictures! Gladys is so bundled up and cute, cute, cute 🥰 that hat! I just looked at this years JC Penny sale flyer and shoes $50, shirts $24, suits $50….
With her hands in her little pockets! People made a lot less in those days too. I tried to find advertisments for little girls clothes, no luck with finding any little outfit like Gladys’.
Makes me want to go shopping and to church for Easter service. Did they do Easter baskets 100 years ago for the kids?
I think so because I have a picture of Nanny’s sister Alice with an Easter basket about 1911.
Send me a photo with your new outfit on! Get it fast before prices rise!!
Oh my goodness! That little boy is so cute in those pants (knickerbockers)!!
I know! Such a little man. As he would have said in his later years 🙂
I remember a new dress, pretty and frilly, along with new shoes, gloves, and hat – all for church on Easter Sunday. Loved the post!!
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That’s a sharp looking family dressed in their Easter best. I love knickerbockers!
This is a charming picture. And Gladys’ expression is remarkable!