"Refugees who found a haven in the St. Louis area partake of a Thanksgiving dinner at the International Institute of Metropolitan St. Louis Wednesday." They are served by International Institute volunteer Anna Peterson at 3800 Park.
"Thanksgiving - The Wheatley family enjoy some pleasant conversation following Thanksgiving dinner at St. Francis de Sales served by Hosea House. L-R are Joyce (mother); Christine, 9 and Joseph Wheatley."
"Some 500 young men from 40 states, two foreign countries, and Alaska, the majority of them in uniform, were guests yesterday at the sixteenth Thanksgiving dinner sponsored by St. Louis churches and the Y. M. C. A. at DeSoto Hotel."
"A pretty Spar - Miss Caroline E. Kerr, Coast Guard from Cameo, Colo. (shown in the lower photo) - drew as dinner companions Sailor Jimmie Arnhart of Knoxville, Tenn., and Sergt. Thomas R. Bancroft of Camp Hale, Colo."
"Chicken for Thanksgiving: Kindergarten students at Harrison School in Normandy discovered recently that inflation affects the, too. Their annual Thanksgiving celebration this year featured chicken legs instead of turkey dinner. Tamiko Simpson, 5, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Simpson, munches her chicken as she wears an Indian headdress she made." Harrison School was located at 8129 Albin Ave., Normandy, MO.
"On Thanksgiving Day 1982, with unemployment and economic hard times bearing down on the poor and elderly, Tom Puckett was the answer to a prayer. Puckett, 36, and other residents of the Salvation Army Harbor House Detoxification Center served meals at the center and delivered food to the homebound."
"Like many St. Louis residents, 41-year-old Richard Middleton, another resident of the Harbor House Detoxification Center at 3010 Washington Ave., didn't make it home for the holiday. Middleton spent much of his day serving food to others at the center."
"John Stepanek, (left) serves senior citizen Ollie Bohlman 70 years old a turkey dinner at the Bel Ridge Community Center on Natural Bridge road. Stepanek is with the Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity of UMSL who sponsored the meals."
This photo shows the Turkey Day '83 towel. "Recently, a somber Kirkwood High coach Dale Collier trudged off the field after losing to Hazelwood Central 18-6 in a Missouri Class 5A semifinal. En route to the team bus, he grumbled answers to reporters' questions after the game. Suddenly, one unsuspecting hack asked him did he think the Pioneers, then 9-3, had had a good season. Collier stopped dead
"Some of the senior citizens line up to receive left over turkey and trimmings at the Bel Ridge Community Center sponsored by the Sigma Tau Gamma of UMSL."
"Travel rose to its apparent annual peak as the four-day Thanksgiving weekend wound down to a final crush here Sunday. Although final figures aren't available, bus travel from St. Louis was up as much as 60 percent, train travel nearly 50 percent and air travel about 40 percent compared to a typical day, spokesman estimated. Spokesmen for Amtrak, Greyhound and Lambert St. Louis International Airport said they believe the Thanksgiving weekend, as it usually is, was the busiest travel weekend of the year...Corvonne Logan waits in the Amtrak station downtown for her ride home. She returned from Kansas City."
"Come and get it! This paper gobbler beckoned East St. Louis' needy to a free Thanksgiving feast Thursday at Cosgrove's Kitchen, run by the St. Vincent De Paul Society."
loving care. About 300 visitors ate 19 turkeys, 40 to 50 pies and pans of candied sweet potatoes so heavy that it took two men to deliver them, according to Reverend Larry Rice." Two men, Norman Boyce and Micky Morris, enjoy their Thanksgiving dinner in the photo.
"Three men from New York and a Missouri turkey leg met at the dinner (from left) - Private George White of the Bronx, Jerry Chlebowski of Buffalo, in the Maritime Service, and Private William H. Smith of Brooklyn."
"Thanksgiving Dinner - Lelia Andrews and Ruth Crump received their Thanksgiving dinner at the annual dinner at Ritenour High School. Aprox 190 area seniors attended this year's dinner. Serving them are L-R: Becky Shepherd and Kurt Buchholz."