“AND WE DO MEAN HOME say these cooks assigned to the Fort McDowell mess, where Pacific war veterans arriving at the San Francisco Port of Embarkation later in the month will eat their Thanksgiving dinner. The men in white, just a few of the 136 who operate the mess, carried turkeys, fresh vegetables, oranges, milk and butter (photographed in that order) to the Welcome Home sign that greets veterans at the ferry landing, and posed with them to let prospective guests know the Port has plenty of the victuals they’ve been longing for overseas.”
—SFPL History Center
“‘When do we eat?’ chorus the three youngsters, Sally Harbison and her two Edgewood visitors, Harold and Judy. Because their own mothers will be working on the holiday, the two children have been invited for Thanksgiving dinner. With two others in the family, Susan and Sandra Harbison, it promises to be a merry party.”
—SFPL History Center
“Carlo (Pat) Panattoni, president of the American Poultry Co., 322 Davis-st, eyes part of 250,000-pound shipment Thanksgivingturkeys received here over the weekend. American is the largest turkey wholesaling concern in San Francisco.”
—SFPL History Center
November 28, 1957, Father Boeddeker carves a turkey at the (old) St. Anthony Dining Room.
“TOO MANY COOKS, GOVERNOR—Gov. Edmund G. Brown has trouble holding onto his assistant cook’s hat as he and his grandgchildren look over the Thanksgiving turkey. Mrs. Brown looks on in amusement. The Governor managed to retrieve his hat and get the 30-pound bird into the oven. The grandchildren, Joey Kelly Jr., 4, and his sister Patricia, 1, helped observe the Thanksgiving holiday at the gubernatorial mansion in Sacramento.”
—SFPL History Center
Save me some stuffin’.
