For little boys, there's an astronaut, a secret agent, Frankenstein, a skeleton and a devil. I wonder how the devil costume would go over today?
For the girls, there's a rather boring selection: a masked bride (maybe she was going to pull a heist), a fortune teller and a hatless witch.
The only true licensed costumes pictured are Lost in Space and the lone TV cartoon, Hanna-Barbera's Secret Squirrel.
Here's a portion of the Jupiter store ad from that same week. (I always thought it was strange that Lorain had both a Mars and a Jupiter store.)
I like the Tom Cat costume with its now politically incorrect image of what looks like Tom chasing Jerry with a gun!
We also have perennial favorite Casper the Friendly Ghost (we had that one for sure), a generic black cat, Dracula and the Phantom.
The Phantom? What's a comic strip character whose heyday was long past by the 1960's doing in there?
To see a neat website with a lot of vintage Halloween costumes from both the Kresge and Jupiter ads, click here.
Oh well, it's amusing to see what passed for mass-produced costumes back in the 1960's. Nowadays you see a lot of creative homemade costumes, which is a good thing.
But being raised on TV as I was, I was happy to go trick or treating as good old Huckleberry Hound.
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It was great fun to look at these costumes!
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