Thanksgiving day - does anyone remember?

23 years ago

I seem to remember when I was a little girl that it used to fall on the Third Thursday on November and then it was changed. How can we get it back where it belongs? It used to give us a little more time to get ready for Christmas and was better for the merchants too.

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kframe19
23 years ago
Minnie...

Uh, how old are you? :-)

The reason I'm asking is that it was Franklin Roosevelt who MOVED T-giving from it's traditional 4th Thursday, to the 3rd Thursday. He did this in the mid to late 1930s to create a longer Christmas shopping season. It had been traditionally the 4th Thursday for quite some time at that point, and when people complained long and loud, the holiday was moved back to the 4th Thursday only 2 years later.

It wasn't until 1941 that Congress actually declared Thanksgiving a national holiday to be observed on the 4th Thursday.

Kind of funny when you think about the holiday that is so deeply ingrained in the American conscience really only being a formal holiday for just over 60 years.
minnie_tx
Original Author
23 years ago
"It wasn't until 1941 that Congress actually declared Thanksgiving a national holiday to be observed on the 4th Thursday." I guess I have a good memory haha.
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