Halloween Safety

Halloween Safety tips from the Onion. 

Take notes, people.

click the Trick or Treaters

Tiny Halloween.

Found these in an antique shop down the street, I have no idea if they qualify as antique...or even vintage, but they look the part...and I am quite fond of them

I'm going to have to adopt some very tiny children.

After Midnight...

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Ready

 

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Halloween Safety 1977

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Speak of the Devil.

My heart's made of parts of all that surrounds me
And that's why the Devil just can't get around me

                                                         -Fiona Apple, 'Every Single Night' 

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Why, oh why...

Do things like this no longer happen.

1940s National Biscuit Co. Halloween Spiced Wafer Box and Canco Halloween tin.

I want to reside in that little house back there.



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Where Halloween masks go to die.

I was at a flea market a few weeks ago and I spotted a Frankenstein mask very similar to the one pictured here.  When I went over to investigate, I found several others...a witch, devil, gorilla, and so on. Most of them were on the floor, in the dirt, behind a big, elaborate case.  I knocked over a few priceless antiques and made my way to them...they were all dirty,  stapled together and cracked in several places. I thought about rescuing them for posterity sake, they obviously weren't where they should be.  But I flipped over their little price-tags...only to discover that I'm pretty sure the keepers of the shop knew what they had...they just didn't care. Meanwhile, in that big elaborate case, locked up from Halloween scoundrels, was a string of vintage Christmas lights...from the 50's...still in their original box...with a little handwritten sign that read 'fragile'.

Christmas:  for assholes.



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Screen Shocker.

Do I love this or hate this?

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Trick or Treat.

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Baby Jack

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Autumn Harvest

From the 1964 edition of the book Autumn Harvest, by Alvin Tresselt, illustrated by the great Roger Duvoisin. Copyright 1951.

The Devil Rides Out.

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