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Volunteer and Thanksgiving Dinner Recipient
Title
Volunteer and Thanksgiving Dinner Recipient
Date
1983-11-25
Description
"Frank Henry, 69, of East St. Louis, savors a turkey drumstick at the dinner. With him is volunteer Norma Slone. About 300 people were served meals."
Thanksgiving Dinner for Refugees
Title
Thanksgiving Dinner for Refugees
Date
1983-11-24
Description
"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.
The Wheatley Family
Title
The Wheatley Family
Date
1983-11-24
Description
"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."
Thanksgiving Dinner for Military
Title
Thanksgiving Dinner for Military
Date
1943-11-26
Description
"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."
Three Military Members
Title
Three Military Members
Date
1943-11-26
Description
"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."
Tamiko Simpson
Title
Tamiko Simpson
Date
1981-11-25, 1981-12-2
Description
"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.
Tom Puckett
Title
Tom Puckett
Date
1982-11-26
Description
"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."
Richard Middleton
Title
Richard Middleton
Date
1982-11-26
Description
"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."
UMSL Sponsored Thanksgiving Dinner
Title
UMSL Sponsored Thanksgiving Dinner
Date
1983-11-23
Description
"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."
Turkey Day 1983
Title
Turkey Day 1983
Date
1983-11-25
Description
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
UMSL Sigma Tau Gamma Thanksgiving Dinner
Title
UMSL Sigma Tau Gamma Thanksgiving Dinner
Date
1983-11-23
Description
"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."
Corvonne Logan
Title
Corvonne Logan
Date
1981-11-29, 1981-11-30
Description
"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."
Cosgrove's Kitchen Thanksgiving Feast
Title
Cosgrove's Kitchen Thanksgiving Feast
Date
1983-11-24, 1983-11-25
Description
"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."
Holiday Bus Travels
Title
Holiday Bus Travels
Date
1981-11-29, 1981-11-30
Description
Commuters waiting to continue on their journey at the downtown Grey Hound Bus Station.
New Life Evangelistic Center Thanksgiving Dinner
Title
New Life Evangelistic Center Thanksgiving Dinner
Date
1981-11-26, 1981-11-27
Description
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 Military Members and a Turkey Leg
Title
Three Military Members and a Turkey Leg
Date
1943-11-26
Description
"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."
Ritenour High School Thanksgiving Dinner
Title
Ritenour High School Thanksgiving Dinner
Date
1985-11-25, 1985-11-28
Description
"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."

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