Once we get to a certain age, we start looking back on holiday traditions from our childhood with nostalgia. For some reason, that is particularly true for Easter. Remember when women and girls wore beautiful Easter dresses and Easter bonnets, kids rolled eggs across the yard, parents weren’t concerned about their children eating too much candy with red dye no. 3, and Easter dinner rivalled Thanksgiving dinner? Let’s take a walk through the past and reminisce about the Easter celebrations of our youth with these vintage photos.
#1: Enjoying a Chocolate Easter Egg
Your parents filled your Easter basket with candy from the local confectioner’s shop in town. In the weeks leading up to Easter, the candy maker displayed enormous chocolate eggs in his store window, and every kid in town hoped that the Easter bunny would deliver a candy egg as big as a football.
