{"id":2275,"date":"2012-11-19T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2015-01-08T17:20:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T22:20:28","slug":"turkeys-all-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2012\/11\/19\/turkeys-all-sold\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkeys all sold"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Sun-Telegraph photo) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Nov. 21, 1945:<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0A timely photo, isn\u2019t it? Thanksgiving is almost here. We found this photo in a \u201cThanksgiving\u201d folder in our archive and thought it would be a great picture to start this Thanksgiving week as families in Pittsburgh and across the country make plans and preparations for Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

Before Giant Eagle and Walmart, before online grocery shopping, back in 1945, Alexander Kidd, owner of the Fort Pitt Butter Company, sold turkeys in the Diamond Market, Downtown Pittsburgh. \u00a0This photo, shot the day before Thanksgiving, shows him adding another bird to his\u00a0display\u00a0of 87 previously ordered birds.<\/p>\n

In 1945, Americans celebrated Thanksgiving in an atmosphere of peace after four long and tragic years of war. On Nov. 12, 1945, President Harry S. Truman wrote a proclamation which said, \u201cIn this year of our victory, absolute and final, over German fascism and Japanese militarism; in this time of peace so long awaited, which we are determined with all the United Nations to make permanent; on this day of our abundance, strength, and achievement; let us give thanks to Almighty Providence for these exceeding blessings.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe give thanks with the humility of free men,\u201d wrote President Truman, \u201ceach knowing it was the might of no one arm but of all together by which we were saved. Liberty knows no race, creed, or class in our country or in the world. In unity we found our first weapon, for without it, both here and abroad, we were doomed. None have known this better than our very gallant dead, none better than their comrade, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Our thanksgiving has the humility of our deep mourning for them, our vast gratitude to them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A timely photo, isn\u2019t it? Thanksgiving is almost here. <\/p>\n

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