I can't tell you how happy they make me.
I have them hanging up in my little apartment now. I remember them hanging up in the front windows every year, usually with some black and orange crepe paper streamers here and there.
A big bowl of candy sat on the credenza in the hall.
Halloween was always my favorite holiday growing up. (Still is.)
My favorite was always the articulated cat, with the dapper monocled Mr. Cat coming in a close second.
(uh...can we say gay?)
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There was no such thing as a Halloween decoration in my childhood home. I'm surprised that it has become my favorite holiday. Wish I could get my hands on your dapper little cat. He's a keeper.
the monocled cat is great. hep cat even.
I love Halloween especially if I have the chance to pass out treats to children. When we lived in Maryland my home was known for being very scary on Halloween night and some people wouldn't approach the front door. After that, I took to passing out candy from the front porch--but you had to stick your hand in one of three black boxes to retrieve your treat. Great fun.
One year though we were very cruel and passed out tricks instead of treats--thing we bought at the Dollar General store, the more for one dollar, the better. We gave out sponges, rolls of cheap tape, canned tuna, plastic flowers and toothbrushes. People actually came back for toothbrushes. It was so fun and funny. The first goblin to our door was a tiny princess all in pink with her parents. My partner plopped a can of tuna in her bag and closed the door. I was crying it was so funny and cruel. Nothing happened to the house that night, I think we had built a reputation by then.
how perfect that this was saved.
These are wonderful Jason. I remember the awful melted plastic popcorn decorations being drug out every year.
hahaha...handing out tuna.
What a great post!!!! I too love these vintage pieces. I have a grandmothers plastic light up figrue. Remember those? I have it in my apartment now, and like you it makes me happy, and brings back memories. And a credenza? I love you!!! You are the first person I know what this is!!!!!!!! You have inspired me to do a decor halloween post I believe.
Cool! I had some of these same ones as well. I think they are all from Beistle. They are still around and have reissued some of these designs. (The new ones look a little different color/printing wise and often are different sizes.)
My mom actually made up Halloween bags, with at least 4 different kinds of candy, numbering in the hundreds, and placed them on a silver tray, or in crystal bowls, to hand out in style. And yes, we had these great decorations in the house, too. Those were the days, even though I did hear rumors of kids actually handing out cat poop wrapped in Tootsie Roll wrappers, and of course, the obligatory, "razor blade in the apple" story, it was still better than today's Halloween.
Joseph, I think Dollar General has can openers, too...
Oh, those are family jewels. Glad you saved them. We've been working on some Halloween themed posts as well since corn candy just doesn't work for us at this stage of life.
I am quite biased as I was born on Halloween. I remember shops and streets covered in decorations, as well as houses and school rooms.
I also think France is finally warming up to the idea of Halloween as well.
Have you chosen a costume?
I was having a Halloween decorations conversation with a colleague but it turned out that my idea of decorations is like those YOU'VE pictured whereas she's putting up a life-size Freddy Krueger.
Classics!
Much nicer than all the Halloween crap that is being sold nowadays!
I remember similar decorations growing up as well. You are so lucky to have found them. Groovy!
Are you a big Halloween person Jason?
Cheers, Kelly
I think my next tattoo will be of that monocled cat.
That's crazy! Every year for Halloween, my aunt gave us the same packets of coloring pages and they were totalling the same pictures you posted!
--Rachelle
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