Happy Easter Friends!

For today’s post I’m going to carry on the theme I started last year, with a roundup of all things that fall under the category, “Vintage Easter”. This will include photos, ads, kitschy vintage Easter items for sale and anything else I can find. Of course it’s all from the 1920’s to the 1960’s.

Okay friends let’s begin the Easter fun!

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Vintage Easter Shopping: I have a collection of Vintage Easter items for sale on Etsy that I update monthly. Happy Shopping!

Vintage Easter Images, Advertising, Recipes & More-Part 2!

1920’s – 1960’s

1950s Vintage Photo: Easter egg race winners, Gatineau Park, Quebec, 1957.

1950s Vintage Image of Easter egg race winners, Gatineau Park, Quebec, 1957 — Source: Tumblr

Yummy Easter Egg Cake with Recipe (1953). Main ingredients: Swans Down Yellow Cake Mix and Baker’s Unsweetened Chocolate.

If any of my readers end up making this cake please let me know how it was!

FURTHER READING: Vintage Cooking Recipes as seen in Vintage Ads from the 1930s-1950s & Vintage Easter Advertising – The Food

1950s Vintage Food Advertisement / 1950s Easter Advertising featuring a 1953 Easter Egg cake recipe — Source: Tumblr

Easter Sunday, 1950 vintage photo featuring a very stylish woman all dressed up in her Easter best.

Further Reading: Do You Have An Easter Parade Hat?

John W. Mosley - Easter Sunday, c. 1950 vintage image of a Black woman all dressed up in a stylish 1950s coat and 1950s hat with fur. — Source: Tumblr

Blog Post by the Vintage Inn: Let’s do the Bunny Hop!

History, images and videos of everyone’s favourite holiday dance craze…The Bunny Hop!

The Bunny Hop history by the vintageinn blog

1940s vintage photo: “Then the Easter Eggs danced.” Easter Party held by Glen Taylor School, Walnut Creek, California in 1949 via Life Magazine.

“Mr. Bunny Paints the Eggs” -Vintage 1940s Children’s Book by Lee Maril Illustrated by Irena Lorentowicz.

1920s fashions on dispaly in this vintage Easter image from Washington, D.C. “Easter Sunday, 1925.”

Milky Ways…my favourite! 1950s vintage Easter ad.

1950s Vintage Advertisement: Easter Ad for Milky Ways — Source: Pinterest

In London, the Easter eggs are bigger (1936). Cute 1930s photo of a 2 young girls holding giant Easter eggs.

Easter Shopping in London 1936. Cute 1930s photo of a 2 young girls holding giant Easter eggs. — Source: Tumblr

Easter egg colouring kit, 1940s.

Vintage Easter Egg Colouring Kit 1940 — Source: Found in Mom’s Basement

Easter Greeting Card vintage ad from 1949 for ‘American Greeting Cards’.

Video of the famous NYC Easter Parade (1950).

Easter in Chicago, 1941. Fantastic 1940s hats, dresses and shoes!

Easter Parade Chicago 1941 featuring 3 well dressed Black women in 1940s hats, 1940s coats and 1940s dresses. Including fantastic stylish 1940s shoes. — Source: get bent

Easter Favourites…Chocolate! What is your fav treat during this time of the year? Share in the comments below.

Late 1930s early 1940s chocolate advertisement for Whitman's Chocolates. Vintage Ad. — Source: Found in my mom’s basement

Once again, Happy Easter! I hope you all have a lovely weekend doing whatever you traditionally (or not so traditonally do). I’m off to see the families, so lots of driving all over Ontario. Good thing I will have all that chocolate to keep my energy up.

FURTHER READING:

Vintage Easter Blog Posts 1920s-1960s (Archived Posts)

Take care everyone!

Liz

Spring has officially arrived and I am so ready for a change in temp. I used to love winter but as I have gotten older, it’s been pushed to the back. I’m just tired of being cold, bundling up in 60 million items of clothes (okay a total exaggeration but sometimes it feels that way), and I miss all the beauty of trees and flowers in bloom. I’m just tired of it. AND I would not be a true Canadian if I did not complain about it, ha!

For today’s post I wanted to cheer myself up and maybe some of my readers who are in the same boat and share some lovely Vintage Spring magazine covers and advertisements.

Ready Friends? Lets Polka into Spring!

1950s vintage ad for Avisco showcasing a couple in 1950s fashions dancing together. Ad is from April Harper's Bazaar 1959 — April Harper’s Bazaar 1959. Source: Flickr

Disclosure: Some of the links on my blog from Etsy , eBay, are Affiliate Links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.

Vintage Spring Advertising

1940’s & 1950’s

June 1950 vintage ad – “Spring is Motorola Portable Radio Time”.

1950s Motorola portable radio featuring an illustration of a couple together. Print Ad is from a "Coronet" magazine ad June 1950 — Source: Pinterest

April Showers-1944 Saturday Post. Illustration by Alex Ross.

1940s vintage magazine cover: Original 1940s Saturday Evening Post cover art by Alex Ross — Via Etsy

Scary clown alert! Thanks 1950’s Texaco, now I won’t be sleeping for a month but I will remember to take my car in for a spring check-up.

1950s vintage ad for Texaco featuring an illustration of a clown — Source: Found in Mom’s Basement

Spice Berry Layer Cake recipe from “Woman’s Day” magazine-April 1956. This is so spring! The ad is right!

1950s Vintage Ad for Spice Berry Layer Cake recipe from Woman's Day magazine APRIL 1956. — Source: Pinterest

This ad is actually from 1938, but the desserts (for different kinds of Shortcake) look so yummy and the ad is all about “Spring” that I thought you would forgive me for adding it. Crisco Shortening Ad – 1932 From the May 1932 issue of Better Homes & Gardens.

1930s Vintage Ad featuring a 1930s Dessert Recipe: Crisco Shortening Ad - 1932 From the May 1932 issue of Better Homes & Gardens. The Vintage recipes are from Shortcakes

Source: Flickr

Easter was traditionally a time, when women and men donned their best “Easter Bonnet“

1950s vintage ad for women's Easter Hats — Source: Pinterest

1930s Catalog Page: “Spring Begins with a New Hat!”. Which one would you chose?

1930's Vintage millinery, fashion catalog page. 1930s women's fashions. — Source: Pinterest

Stetson Hats 1940s vintage ad.

Vintage Stetson Hat 1940s vintage mens clothing ad — Source: Mister Crew

April 1944 cover of Harper’s Bazaar Magazine. “Spring Beauty”.

1940s vintage magazine cover: April 1944 cover of Harper's Bazaar Magazine — Source: Pinterest

April, 1947 Life Magazine Cover featuring two young women holding spring flowers wearing 1940s hairstyles.

1940s Vintage Magazine Cover: April, 1947- Life Magazine Cover – Vintage Ladies Holding Dogwood Blossoms — Source: Etsy

Life Magazine Ford Advertisement from 1947. It features the latest Ford Sedan (I will take 2 please).

1940s Vintage Ad: April, 1947- Life Magazine Ford Advertisement – Vintage Ford Automobile Ad — Source: Etsy

1950’s rain gear for the whole family! For more images like this, check out my blog post “What to wear when it’s Raining“.

1950s raincoats for the whole family vintage ad

Women’s “Spotlight on Prints” Dresses-Sears & Roebuck Spring and Summer Catalog from 1938.

1930s vintage catalog: Sears & Roebuck Spring and Summer Catalog from 1938 featuring women's 1930s dresses — Source: Flickr

Ahhh I feel so much better, after putting together this blog post and I’m ready to put this winter behind me. How about you? What is your favourite season? Share in the comments below, I love when my readers reach out.

FURTHER READING: Vintage Advertising 1920s-1960s (Archived Blog Post)

Have a great day!

Liz

Month: March 2018

All Things Easter from the 1920s-60s Part 2

Vintage Easter Images, Advertising, Recipes & More-Part 2!

1920’s – 1960’s

Vintage “Spring” Advertising-1940’s & 1950’s

Vintage Spring Advertising

1940’s & 1950’s