30 Old School Cool Easter Pictures That Show How Different The Holiday Used To Be
Pastel dresses, backyard egg hunts, and slightly terrifying bunnies. Old school Easter was something else. These pictures prove it.
1. President Carter Held An Easter Celebration Today at the White House 1977
2. Me and Uncle Paul, Easter 1977
3. Southside Chicago, Easter 1941
4. Happy Easter, Hitler! Allied Troops on March 30, 1945.
5. John Candy as the Easter Bunny in a 1986 issue of Muppet Magazine.
6. Easter finest. Philadelphia, 1950s
7. Mom made us all Easter leisure suits….don’t be jealous…circa 1975
8. Happy Easter from me 1977.
9. Easter Sunday, 1967. Mom, my sisters, and I.
10. My mom with the Easter Bunny in 1948
11. Looking good for Easter with my little brother 1964
12. Ten sisters from Boston, the O’Neils, dressed in Easter dresses crafted by their mother. (1952)
13. In the 60’s my mom took Easter outfits *Very Seriously*
Every year she handmade all three of us new dresses for Easter Sunday. It was de rigueur in the South.
14. Dolly Parton easter 1970s
15. Me on Easter Sunday in 1967
16. 1970 or so. family pic on easter Sunday. i’m in the gold suit.
17. John Wayne dressed as the easter bunny. (1972)
18. My grandfather cutting the Easter Ham in 1959 very happy, he was a Bus Driver always wanted his grandkids to go to college. All 8 of us have undergrad degrees and most of us have at least 1 Masters Degree. I think he looked cool as heck.
19. Me: Easter morning 1982
20. My moms 7th grade class, Easter 1961
21. Me and my moms childhood life size doll. One Easter Sunday in the early 90’s we went to my grandmas and my mom realized she dressed me to match her old doll. Hope this haunts your dreams!
22. Two women leaving church in Harlem on Easter Sunday in 1943, wearing their Sunday best.
23. Boys Dressed Up on Easter Sunday, Harlem, 1982, Bob Adelman
24. Easter, 1955
25. My mom dressed up for Easter in the late 60’s in old fishing town near the outer banks in North Carolina.
26. My sister and I at the Easter Parade in NYC 1960
27. My mother, me and grandmother on Easter 1965
28. My mom and me, each in dresses that she made. Easter 1971.
29. Young me dressed up in traditional swedish easter clothing in the early 90s
30. My mother on Easter, 1949. On the back of the photo she wrote “Passaic, N.J. 1949. Do you like my hat?”
