middle class dinners

  • Left: Four people, including a child, sit around a table set with various dishes. Right: A sideboard with figurines above a table covered in food, including a roast turkey, pies, and dishes, ready for a meal.

    21 Vintage Photos of Family Dinner From Everyday American Homes

    Take a look at these photos that capture what family dinner looked like in middle-class homes through the years.

    Dinner in middle-class homes has always been a mirror of the times — sometimes decadent and hearty, other times cheap and easy, and always depending on what life looked like beyond the table. In the 1950s, it might’ve been meatloaf…