1940s Thanksgiving Ragamuffins

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Oct 17, 2005
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Here’s a forgotten Thanksgiving tradition for you: This home movie from the 1940s shows the now-extinct tradition of costumed kids begging for coins on Thanksgiving morning. They’d dress in rags and oversized hand-me-downs in the manner of poor children, then chant “Anything for Thanksgiving?” as they knocked on their neighbors’ doors in a manner not …

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