Vintage Trick or Treat

For my friends who know me from MySpace and Facebook, you may have already seen these old photos. But for the rest of you they are new. I dug these out of my Mom's big box of old photos. I just cannot believe that out of that huge box of old photos, I could only find a few that were Hallowe'en related. Did they not LOVE Hallowe'en as much as I do? Why did they not photographically document my favorite holiday? Surely it must run in my genes....yet there is no tangible proof that my own parental units even came close to loving this holiday as much as I do. Which just furthers my speculation that I must have been adopted...ha! If I didn't look so much like them, I'd swear they were impostors! :o)
So the first one is actually of my brother. Yes the notorious perpetrator of 'hook man' horror from an earlier post! He would be the sweet little blue eyed, blond 'Casper the Friendly Ghost'. Boy did they get that costume wrong. And I have no idea who the rest of those chitlins are, but they could very well be some of my cousins who were closer to his age than mine. Or it may have been taken at school for that matter since they are lined up. But I love the selection of old costumes here. I don't have the actual picture in front of me right this minute, but I remember that the date on it was before I was born, and I think it was around 1967-68.

The second photo is of my brother and I. I believe it was dated 1972-73. You'll remember that the hard plastic masks were all the rage in the early 70's. Cheap store bought costumes are what we wanted...not good quality, creative duds fashioned by our own parent's loving hands. You will notice that my brother is no longer a 'friendly' ghost. I don't know what he was exactly, and frankly his whole costume clashes. My friend Mr. D told me once about the costume and who it was, but I forgot. Also note the Budda and the Aztec Sun on the wall.....you gotta dig the 70's!
All I know for certain, is that I did NOT enjoy those masks at all. They made me feel claustrophobic and you could feel your own hot breath condensing on the inside. You could hardly see out of the eye holes and if you tried to stick your tongue out of the little mouth hole, you likely learned the hard way that the molded plastic had sharp edges that cut your tongue. YES....I tried it okay?! I remember well, and I learned my lesson! Later I will post some pics of the Hallowe'en costumes I have fashioned for my own lil' banshees. I think they are way cuter than the store bought stuff!
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