Vintage Halloween Photos

The other day I was digging through the basement at my mom's house looking for wild and wacky stuff to share on the blog and I uncovered a large box of photographs dating from the 1930's through the 60's. I found a couple of Halloween pictures that I thought we'd take a look at today to get us into the Halloween spirit! (Remember, you can click on the photos to enlarge them.)

This picture is really cool. It appears to be nine people all dressed in store-bought costumes from Walt Disney's SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS. The hand-written date on the back of the photo is 10-30-41, perhaps it's a Halloween party or just a practice run to see how all nine people look in their costumes!? Disney's classic Snow White film had just been released four years earlier so these costumes were probably still hot ticket items. It's nice to know that even in the old days store-bought Halloween costumes bared little resemblance to the characters they were trying to portray.


Next we have a photo from Halloween 1956. Here we have illustrated the old fashioned custom of lining up all the young boys in town and have them brutally eaten by a deranged demonic clown. Look at that dude's clown mask! I didn't know things were allowed to be that terrifying in 1956! The little boy to the far right is sporting another classic off-the-rack costume. I believe he is supposed to be Super Mouse, a popular comic book character from the 40's and 50's. The "belt" on the costume has a "MS" on it. Either way, what's the kid in the middle supposed to be!?