Thirty years ago the Rebecca Women's Club would have a turkey whist card party. It would bring out 250 plays. Today we're lucky to get 50. That's with prizes, too. Maybe a turkey isn't worth as much as it used to be. Grange Hall, Livermall, California.

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Thirty years ago the Rebecca Women's Club would have a turkey whist card party. It would bring out 250 plays. Today we're lucky to get 50. That's with prizes, too. Maybe a turkey isn't worth as much as it used to be. Grange Hall, Livermall, California.

Artist: Bill Owens (American, born 1938)

Date: 1973

Medium: Gelatin silver print, printed 2000.

Dimensions:

11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)

Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Ernest Pomerantz and Marie Brenner

Object number: 2019.25.44

Signed: Signed and numbered in graphite on verso. Editioned 1/15 (No more thant two prints ever made)

Published References Illustrated: Bill Owens: Leisure, fotofolio, 2004, p. 81 variant

Not on view

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Thirty years ago the Rebecca Women's Club would have a turkey whist card party. It would bring out 250 plays. Today we're lucky to get 50. That's with prizes, too. Maybe a turkey isn't worth as much as it used to be. Grange Hall, Livermall, California.

Thirty years ago the Rebecca Women's Club would have a turkey whist card party. It would bring out 250 plays. Today we're lucky to get 50. That's with prizes, too. Maybe a turkey isn't worth as much as it used to be. Grange Hall, Livermall, California.