Glenn Strange Candy bucket Question

[horror1o1]

Bob, GREAT comment about the wallets being in Northern Minnesota! Plaques and wallets were seen everywhere here, unlike the head bucket. Four of my plaques are Minnesota 60s purchased for sure (1 in Duluth, 1 in Superior Wisconsin, the other two either Duluth or Minneapolis. The wallets were everywhere.

Btw, my "original" Marx battery op Frankenstein (and my childhood best friend Bob's) both came from the same stack in the summer of 1963~ Twin Ports merchandisers which was located in the canal park area of Duluth. The guys that owned the place had at least 20 of them mint in box on an end cap. My dad bought two of them~ one for Bobby's mother to "gift" him and one for a gift for me(I received mine July 6, 1963). They were retailers/wholesalers I believe because my dad bought multiple stuff to sell at his gas station at times. They gave good deals.

This is a great monster memory and is also another favorite of mine.

[horror1o1]

Yes, pillow cases! That's what it's all about! When was the last time you saw kids come to the door with pillowcases? They have these wimpy little buckets (and some geeky looking adults standing somewhere on the walk). I'm the one who has to tell them "Pillowcases, kid, pillowcases! If you want to maximize your haul tonight you need a pillowcase."

It kind of makes me wonder about Horror1o1 here. I mean doesn't he know anything about trick or treating?

Hep I actually used a bag my mom made me most of the time and i think it had a halloween print on it of bats and skeletons and other halloween creepys. If memory serves me right it was bigger than a pillow case. I do think there was a few years when i was younger i had a candy bucket and maybe some of those free plastic halloween bags. But believe me i always came home with a huge haul and there was more than enough for mom and dad too.lol!

[Richard]

Yes, pillow cases! That's what it's all about! When was the last time you saw kids come to the door with pillowcases? They have these wimpy little buckets (and some geeky looking adults standing somewhere on the walk). I'm the one who has to tell them "Pillowcases, kid, pillowcases! If you want to maximize your haul tonight you need a pillowcase."

It kind of makes me wonder about Horror1o1 here. I mean doesn't he know anything about trick or treating?

So true about the pillowcases, Hepcat! And we decorated ours just a bit. In the 60s, there was a product called Tri-Chem liquid that came in large tubes with roller ball tips. A friend's mother sold it (kind of like Amway, maybe??). Anyhow, we could draw and color with it and add a Dracula or bat or spider web to the white pillowcase. I wish I would've kept my "artwork" pillowcase

Horror101 will find his GS head bucket someday and will be all set to trick 'n treat in style

[horror1o1]

So true about the pillowcases, Hepcat! And we decorated ours just a bit. In the 60s, there was a product called Tri-Chem liquid that came in large tubes with roller ball tips. A friend's mother sold it (kind of like Amway, maybe??). Anyhow, we could draw and color with it and add a Dracula or bat or spider web to the white pillowcase. I wish I would've kept my "artwork" pillowcase

Horror101 will find his GS head bucket someday and will be all set to trick 'n treat in style

Don't feel bad Richard I have no idea where my old bag is and I'm kinda sad about that. =( When I do get my Glenn Strange bucket I might have to go trick or treating with it or at least put some nice treats in it when i pass out candy to the kids. 

[Richard]

=( When I do get my Glenn Strange bucket I might have to go trick or treating with it or at least put some nice treats in it when i pass out candy to the kids. 

I like that you deserve to find a GS bucket head someday

[horror1o1]

I like that you deserve to find a GS bucket head someday

Thanks man. I appreciate the kind words. Halloween is a big deal for me. Last year I went to Moms and we passed out little Halloween bags that had comic cards,vampire teeth and candy in them. The kids loved them! Me and Mom were dressed up. I had a Phantom mask on {just something Quick} and Mom was dressed as a gypsy. We gave the treats out in a vintage bucket as well. 

[Hepcat]

I considered Halloween one of my hardest working days of the year as a kid.  We lived on air-bases growing up and literally sprinted from unit to unit.  All the base "housing" folks had kids, so he base was packed, I mean packed with us little goomers running from door to door on Halloween.  No way in the world would I ever have considered taking a bucket like the Frankie. Just not practical as the pillow case was the tool of choice.  And even with that, we had to dump and run at least once during the night, so we made sure we knew where to be close to home base by the time our sack filled up the first time.

That's the spirit! You gotta maximize your haul!

We lived on the very edge of town when I was a little kid. A junkyard and woods all around us. As a result, I never encountered any trick or treaters prior to first grade. When I was first told about Halloween as a five year old by my parents and older sister, I didn't believe them because it sounded too good to be true. I thought they were pulling my leg and that it was all an outrageous lie.

[Monsters For Sale]

...We lived on the very edge of town when I was a little kid. A junkyard and woods all around us. As a result, I never encountered any trick or treaters prior to first grade. When I was first told about Halloween as a five year old by my parents and older sister, I didn't believe them because it sounded too good to be true. I thought they were pulling my leg and that it was all an outrageous lie.

Yeah, but you had the woods AND a junkyard all around you - Little kid heaven!

[vintagehalloweentoys]

Hey guys,

I saw my picture of my Sideshow Frankenstein bucket from my website on your post (along with my Ka-Bala game). I was very excited to add this one to my collection, as I'm building a very nice little collection of vintage  Halloween buckets (although I still don't have the Clint Toys Frankenstein...some day).

By the way, I'm new to the Universal Monster Army....How do I post a picture on my posts, and can I reply to someone's post directly (instead of cycling down to the bottom)? ....Just watched the tutorial on YouTube. I think I got the post image thing down.

Thanks, Tim Malik (Vintage Halloween Toys).

http://www.vintagehalloweentoys.com/1/post/2012/05/frankenstein-halloween-pail-added-to-my-collection.html

[Monster Bob]

Just to clarify this again...this is a Clinton Plastics toy. Apparently the "Clint Toys" thing was their um...toy division, probably used in the mold just to identify or hallmark it.

[Hepcat]

Yeah, but you had the woods AND a junkyard all around you - Little kid heaven!

Plus these additional features:

1.  A rooster which used to terrorize me when I was a toddler. The neighbourhood delinquents killed it with a slingshot sometime before I reached kindergarten.

2.  A creek behind the house which my father dammed up one summer to form a swimming hole!

3. A backyard skating rink built by my father in the winter.

4. Bodies of old Ford Coupes from the thirties in the yard of Mr. Gayle's house two doors down at the end of the street. He and his older boys raced stock cars at Delaware and Nilestown Speedways and he had a machine shop/garage out back.

5. An overgrown pit in the lot beside ours that an old man by the name of George had dug to serve as the foundation for a house he'd never built. He probably could not afford the building materials. George lived in a tarpaper shack with his beagle Rex behind the pit. He had a guitar and a banjo although he never played his banjo because Rex would howl. He also ate fried eggs with ketchup, which I found to be very exotic since we never had ketchup in the house. I knew this because I popped in to visit Rex and George whenever I was bored. I mean why not? Parents these days would be horrified I'm sure.

My parents seemed to actually be protective of old George. My mother learned he was going to get married. Well he had no bathtub, and he certainly needed a bath before getting married, right? So she took him by the cuff and marched him into our bathroom and gave him a much needed bath. And no nonsense from you! You make sure you're good and clean for the ceremony!

And his lovely bride? She eventually proved to be a source of embarassment for me. I was five and had been enrolled in the neighbourhood kindergarten. It was about six blocks or nearly a half a mile away. I was taken there the first day or two and after that I was just sent there by my parents. So one day I impishly told my mother I wasn't going to go to school that day. Well George's wife just so happened to be going in that direction that day. So I was turned over to her to make sure I went to school. I was absolutely mortified! What if anyone saw that such a big boy as myself needed an old lady to lead him to school? Oh the shame....

[Monsters For Sale]

It all sounds wonderful!

What great memories - Thanks so much for sharing.

[horror1o1]

Plus these additional features:

1.  A rooster which used to terrorize me when I was a toddler. The neighbourhood delinquents killed it with a slingshot sometime before I reached kindergarten.

2.  A creek behind the house which my father dammed up one summer to form a swimming hole!

3. A backyard skating rink built by my father in the winter.

4. Bodies of old Ford Coupes from the thirties in the yard of Mr. Gayle's house two doors down at the end of the street. He and his older boys raced stock cars at Delaware and Nilestown Speedways and he had a machine shop/garage out back.

5. An overgrown pit in the lot beside ours that an old man by the name of George had dug to serve as the foundation for a house he'd never built. He probably could not afford the building materials. George lived in a tarpaper shack with his beagle Rex behind the pit. He had a guitar and a banjo although he never played his banjo because Rex would howl. He also ate fried eggs with ketchup, which I found to be very exotic since we never had ketchup in the house. I knew this because I popped in to visit Rex and George whenever I was bored. I mean why not? Parents these days would be horrified I'm sure.

My parents seemed to actually be protective of old George. My mother learned he was going to get married. Well he had no bathtub, and he certainly needed a bath before getting married, right? So she took him by the cuff and marched him into our bathroom and gave him a much needed bath. And no nonsense from you! You make sure you're good and clean for the ceremony!

And his lovely bride? She eventually proved to be a source of embarassment for me. I was five and had been enrolled in the neighbourhood kindergarten. It was about six blocks or nearly a half a mile away. I was taken there the first day or two and after that I was just sent there by my parents. So one day I impishly told my mother I wasn't going to go to school that day. Well George's wife just so happened to be going in that direction that day. So I was turned over to her to make sure I went to school. I was absolutely mortified! What if anyone saw that such a big boy as myself needed an old lady to lead him to school? Oh the shame....

sounds like good times.

[Hepcat]

I actually used a bag my mom made me most of the time and i think it had a halloween print on it of bats and skeletons and other halloween creepys. If memory serves me right it was bigger than a pillow case.

Now that's what we want to see! Either that or whatever you're going to use to trick or treat this year. Technology keeps advancing and I don't want to be left behind.

[Haunted hearse]

When I was a child in Los Angeles, if I remember you had blow mold Jack O Lanterns and skulls for trick or treating.  But I can't remember the Frankenstein bucket.