Trick-or-Treat
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October 13, 2010, 9:06 PM
Filed under: Vintage Photo Album | Tags: vintage circus, vintage costumes, vintage halloween photography
Filed under: Vintage Photo Album | Tags: vintage circus, vintage costumes, vintage halloween photography
1950s
Halloween is our favorite holiday — so much that we decided to make it our wedding anniversary. The whole month of October is like Christmas for us: Saturday night horror films, planning costumes, finding the perfect pumpkin to carve into a skull face. What more could a girl ask for? Our vintage Halloween collection of old masks, party noisemakers and die-cut decorations is growing; when we buy a house, we’re going to have to make a Halloween room just to stash all the goods.
1920s
not Halloween, but they are in costume. traveling circus children, 1920s
harlequin. germany, 1926.
lucile wyle. 1920s.
in costume for a school play? I love how the faces look as if they are disappearing.
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Pingback by Happy Halloween! Also, Zombies! : Pancakes and French Fries October 31, 2012 @ 9:12 AMHi Lisa, Do you know this book? Looking forward to seeing more of your collection.
Comment by Photobooth Journal October 30, 2012 @ 7:28 PMhttp://milnersblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/halloween-of-old/
yes, yes – we have it here
. the photos are absolutely haunting and gorgeous. it’s one of those collections where you wish you had walked into a place and found those photos yourself. thanks for sharing!
Comment by Lisa November 2, 2012 @ 8:37 AMWow. These are awesome. I bet you do have the coolest stuff.
Comment by naimavanswol October 13, 2012 @ 10:55 AMWe have lots of STUFF (ha ha!). Trying to keep it organized – my favorite part of our collection is the Halloween stuff for sure. My favorite time of year!
Comment by Lisa October 15, 2012 @ 10:36 AMI love these photos! where did you find them?? the last one is my favorite!
Comment by Becky October 14, 2010 @ 10:42 AMThanks, Becky! We collect old photos, so whenever we go to flea markets or antique shops, we look through bins of them. Some of these are from etsy, some from ebay, some from a little junk shop in Florida. The very first one we found in a pile of sale stuff in East Liverpool (our ‘secret’ place where we find the weirdest stuff). Collecting vintage Halloween takes a lot of patience.
Comment by Lisa October 14, 2010 @ 11:39 AMGuys, you need to try to go here before the month is out:
http://www.pennhurstasylum.com/
But it’s near Philly, so it may be too long a drive.
However! Apparently there’s another one in West Virginia that’s 2 hrs south of Pittsburgh:
http://www.trans-alleghenylunaticasylum.com
Please go to one of these! Marta and I really want to go but we’ll never make it down there before Halloween.
Comment by Dan October 14, 2010 @ 8:04 AMWe have the WV lunatic asylum on our list of places for spring (we won’t ge to make it before the end of this season.).
Comment by Lisa October 14, 2010 @ 9:14 AMNow the two of you have to come to Pittsburgh so we can travel through strange and wonderful WV – get here now, dammit!
this collection of photos are pretty awesome…
Comment by Allegheny Eats October 13, 2010 @ 9:46 PMThere’s more too!!!
Comment by jeffrey October 13, 2010 @ 10:00 PMJust as I finished this blog, Jeff told me he won another vintage photo on ebay for our collection (an early anniversary present — we’ll keep you posted).
Comment by Lisa October 13, 2010 @ 10:08 PM