While home this weekend for the Canadian Thanksgiving, my mother brought out old albums for us to browse thru. One of those albums was filled with various images of difference vacations my grandparents/parents took over the years. It was so nice to see how happy everyone looked and all the cool places they ventured out too. So keeping with that theme, today’s ‘Vintage Photo Tuesday‘ is all about Family Vacations (featuring 1950’s and early 1960’s images of families in all shapes and sizes).

Note: Here is Part 2-Vintage Family Vacations!

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Vintage Photos of Family Vacations

1950’s & 1960’s Images

1950’s Family vacation to Hawaii. The photo on the back says “The Hawaiian Trio”.

1950's vintage photo of a family in Hawaiian outfits posing together. — Source: Etsy

1950’s photo of a family in Yosemite. Families who wear matching outfits when at Yosemite, stay together (or at least I think that is how the saying goes).

1950's vintage photo: 1950s photo of a family in Yosemite. — Source: Etsy

A visit to the Hoover Dam in 1953.

1950's vintage photo of a family posing together at Hoover Dam, 1953. — Source: Etsy

Calico Ghost Town…1950’s.

1950s vintage image family vacation at a ghost town-Calico Ghost town. — Source: Etsy

Kids & their Casinos. Golden Gate Casino Las Vegas, 1950’s (The hotel still stands today).

1950s vintage photo of two kids posing together across the street from the Golden Gate Casino in Las Vegas. — Source: Etsy

Four women on a cruise ship circa late 1940s / early 1950s.

Late 1940s, Early 1950s Photo of a group of women posing together on a cruise ship. — Source: Etsy

1950’s photo of a stylish beauty in Mexico in the prettiest sundress.

1950s Photo of a woman in mexico in a 1950s sundress. — Source: Etsy

The family vacation to Knott’s Berry Farm or Bust circa 1950’s.

1950s Vintage Photo of photobooth of a son and his mom at Knott's Berry Farm. — Source: Etsy

Take the family (family can be two people) and travel to the Taj Mahal 1960’s. Love the pearl necklace this woman is wearing.

1960s vintage photo of a couple posing together in front of the Taj Mahal. — Source: Etsy

One cannot visit Venice without taking a gondola ride, circa 1960’s.

1960s vintage photo of an older couple in a Godola ride in Venice. — Source: Etsy

Lastly, vacations are meant for enjoying the small things, like drinks and a paper while on a terrace in France circa 1960s.

1960s vintage photo of a copule having a drink together and reading the paper in France. — Source: Etsy

Question Time: Do you have vintage family photos of vacations from times gone by? Or was your family more of the stay at home kind?

FURTHER READING: Vintage Travel Posts 1920s-1960s (Archived blog posts)

Liz

Vintage Photo Tuesday: Celebrating Thanksgiving with vintage images

If you have been following my blog for some time you know that I have a love of vintage photos and will share them on here as much as I can. Because of this, I have a new series for my blog that will appear every Tuesday: “Vintage Photo Tuesday“.

Today’s photos will showcase Thanksgiving gatherings as this coming weekend is the Canadian Holiday (Yay Turkey!).

October 2023 Update! Here are more vintage images from this series:

1940s thanksgiving illustration of a man and woman eating a turkey together and breaking the wish bone.

Source: Pinterest

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Vintage Thanksgiving Photos 1920s-1950s

A real 1950s Canadian Thanksgiving family gathering. The gentlemen on the right can’t WAIT to eat it as he is clearly not caring about the photo being taken.