Hi gang,
I came across this picture and had to share it.. it's my first store bought costume (skeleton). The picture is dated 1970... my brother is wearing a Shazzam costume which I think was an old Hanna Barbara cartoon... though it may not be...:) I was 4 years old so this is almost 40 years ago...LOL!
Adam
(http://www.abriandesign.com/Hal1970lowfin.jpg)
Awesome... love seeing 'vintage' Hallowe'en pics. Well, vintage in the sense that we're getting to be vintage, haha!
Great pic! Yes, SHAZZAN was an H-B toon from '67. Created by Alex Toth.
http://www.toonopedia.com/shazzan.htm (http://www.toonopedia.com/shazzan.htm)
Quote from: artistguy on March 07, 2010, 12:26:15 PM
Hi gang,
I came across this picture and had to share it.. it's my first store bought costume (skeleton). The picture is dated 1970... my brother is wearing a Shazzam costume which I think was an old Hanna Barbara cartoon... though it may not be...:) I was 4 years old so this is almost 40 years ago...LOL!
Adam
(http://www.abriandesign.com/Hallowen1970low.jpg)
SO awesome.
That's great stuff! Thanks for sharing! You should make a doll of yourself.
BK
Awesome. I love seeing these old Halloween pics. My second Halloween I wore a similar skeleton mask, my first I was Casper. Cool pic Adam.
Great pic. We're about the same age; the last generation of the Golden Age of Trick-or-Treating. My first store bought Halloween costume was H R Pufnstuf. I wish I could dig up a pic of that!
I like that little skeleton. Very cute.
That is cool! I love the old costumes of the day. I used to have some pictures of me in the 70's but we lost them in the move to Oklahoma. >:( My first ones was a clown and a Planet of the Apes costume. Also did a Sleestack one year. I think that is how you spell that?
Yes, these were the best Halloween days.. I remember my pumpkin flashlight.. My brother also was HR Puff-in-Stuff too... it was after this that I got into the superheros, and alternated between Batman and Spider-Man costumes. I remember my local dept. store would put out large tables, and layout all the Halloween costume boxes with the see through windows so you could see the mask... Ahhh the good ole days....LOL! Seeing this picture again makes me crave some tootsie rolls, tootsie pops, and nestle crunch bars....oh yeah!
I agree...that would be a cool doll figure... I think the Mezco living dead dolls did something like that a few years ago...figures dressed in vintage style Halloween costumes.
Adam
Thems were the days! Thanks for sharing!
Take care,
E.A.
I even miss the SMELL of the mask on my face after perspiration would build up from running wild around our neighborhood.
Like most neighborhoods in the Midwest, we had an old, unlived in Victorian house just a couple of blocks away with a big tree lined, worn driveway (for carriages, I suppose!) that was a Halloween dare destination. Nobody had lived there for as long as I had been alive, but you could see in one room on the first floor, which was filled with dolls! Creepy!
That place is long torn down now and replaced with a church.
I miss seeing the throngs of kids in those Ben Cooper and Collegeville costumes as they would hit the streets at twilight. It was marvelous.
I had a Frankenstein costume as a kid from Kresge's:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3044/2818786723_118155f987.jpg)
I had this JAWS costume:
(http://www.plaidstallions.com/halloween/LouJawscostume.jpg)
I had the robot. Man I LOVED the robot.
(http://www.wordcraft.net/halloweencostumes/314robot.jpg)
Chris Ecker has been posting dozens of vintage costume pics on his facebook page.....
Wow Sean... too awesome I had the Frank and Robot too....
Rod... your description makes me think of one of the films we all watch every year as a tradition.. "The Ghost and Mr Chicken" with Don Knotts... I miss Don...:( The Vic Muzzi organ score at the beginning and end still creeps me out in a super fun way! That movie was so innocent and fun...
Cool Terry I'm gonna check that out!
Quote from: Radioactive Rod Whitenack on March 08, 2010, 10:19:23 AM
I miss seeing the throngs of kids in those Ben Cooper and Collegeville costumes as they would hit the streets at twilight. It was marvelous.
And if you saw a kid you didn't know wearing the same costume as you----you were like 'who the hell is HE?' ;D
Sean, what a GREAT treasure to have unearthed. I am so happy that you have that.
My first costume is a clown costume. I suppose not so ridiculous because oone of my forst jobs was as a circus clown!
I have NO pictures in Monster costumes. I know I had em and wore them but GOD FORBID my mom or Dad would point a camera at me!!!
Is that a factor in your career choice, Danny? Still trying to get somebody to point a camera at you? In a monster costume? Are you still searching for that childhood dream? Food for thought--
Quote from: gracebuster on March 08, 2010, 12:23:26 PM
I have NO pictures in Monster costumes. I know I had em and wore them but GOD FORBID my mom or Dad would point a camera at me!!!
Hilarious. I was I THINK the robot in a Halloween parade... my sister was a harem girl (good choice, mom & dad)------they took ONE picture of us in the parade... and when it came out, some fat kid in a Fred Flintstone costume cut in front of me.
God it's always the fat kid in the Fred Flintstone costume.. wait wasn't that John Goodman...:) LOL!