Anonymous wine scenes in France

Card players (estimated year 1910) I found these anonymous pictures in street fleamarkets or vide-greniers like they're known in France. You find all sort of stuff in these brocantes and I always like to leaf through the piles of old family pictures that some sellers offer. It's a glimpse into unknown destinies and some pictures are stunning testimonies of the quiet happiness of slower times (which we would probably find desperately boring today).

I thought recently about collecting randomly some of these pictures featuring friends and families enjoying time together around a table with a few bottles or drinks at reach.
Wine has always been central in France and when relatives, colleagues or friends would gather for some event or share a meal at the same table, there would always be a good wine or spirit to help warm up the mood. Looking at these scenes is an intuitive way which works better than a scientific study to feel how our ancestors felt and behaved.
Most of these pictures had no dates or location written in the back, so my dates are pure guess.
Some of these scenes may involve other drinks than wine but I'm open and I'll take everything.

Sitting and standing at the end of a table (est. 1938) Picnicking in the woods (est. 1939) Workers (est. 1947) Multi-generation table (est. 1958) Terrace (est. 1949) Restaurant Greuze, Tournus 1949 (written on the back) Colleagues sharing a meal (est. 1960) Family gathering (est. 1903) Youths sharing a meal (est. 1960) Marseilles, est 1923 Soldiers in Algeria (est. 1961)

Comments

[Oenowp]

Wonderful photos, all the better for being totally anonymous and 'prises sur le vif'. Thank you for sharing them with us.

[Dirk De la Marche]

"Colleagues sharing a meal (est. 1960)" and "Multi-generation table (est. 1958)" is the same scene, but taken from different sides of the table. Nice pictures!

[Bertrand]

You guys are perceptive ! I didn't even notice myself ! I actually bought the pictures at the same stand, and I guess they were indeed together originally. I'll put them together and choose 1958 as the estimated date.
I'm still loking for similar pictures for a later photo story