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Mid-Century Picnic

I'm sorry I don't know the specific years of some of my photos as the paper slips they're in don't have dates written on them. But if I had to hazard a guess I'd say this photo is from the early '60s. Does anyone know what the container with the yellow lid contains (unless it's just a regular container that happens to have a bull on it). Scanned from a Kodak safety negative. View full size.

I'm sorry I don't know the specific years of some of my photos as the paper slips they're in don't have dates written on them. But if I had to hazard a guess I'd say this photo is from the early '60s. Does anyone know what the container with the yellow lid contains (unless it's just a regular container that happens to have a bull on it). Scanned from a Kodak safety negative. View full size.

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How to slice ham

It looks like the ladies are supervising the slicing of ham.

If I squint it looks like the cow on the yellow container has horns. Perhaps it contains milk as there is a coffee pot.

No Tupperware or Rubbermaid

I'm struck by the total absence of plastic or injection molded rubber containers on this table, which even by the late fifties had been adopted by my mom for transporting all sorts of foods and beverages to picnics, potlucks and church bake sales. Looks like your family members were veteran outdoor eaters. Those metal beverage containers evoke forgotten memories of displays in the camping section of fifties sporting goods stores and hardware stores. I think the green jug had been in production since at least the mid-1930s. And the plaited-splint picnic basket looks like it had been on campaigns since then or even before. After inheriting my parents' house about a year ago I've been turning up things like these in the very stuffed garage and in the back of the kitchen cabinets.

That yellow jug

makes me think of Sun Tea.

The other yellow container

The one on the bench, a box for a Kodak Brownie Starflash Outfit, undoubtedly the camera used to shoot this picture. The Starflash was made from 1957 to 1965, and was a brother of sorts to my Brownie Starmite II that I used in 1960-62. Both used 127 film that produced square images, one benefit being that slides fit into 2X2 mounts compatible with 35mm slide projectors.

Jugs

Since there are three of them, my guess is that one is spiked. Well, at least that is what my dad would do. Couldn't hide it, though, because every professed teetotaler (male with the exception of my sister and me) would gather around like bees. I always wondered who they thought they were fooling.

Yellow container

It looks like one that a friend had that was used for iced tea.

Kibitzers

Methinks the man is doing something the ladies think he is quite unable to do and they're ready to step in and take over!

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