But fifty years ago, Gray Drug was still around, with a few local outlets, such as the one at O’Neil Sheffield Center. Above is the chain's Halloween-themed ad that ran in the Monday, October 26, 1970 edition of the Journal.
There are a few costumes featured in the ad, but it’s a real grab bag. The ad helpfully identifies some of them, noting, “Be the envy of your crowd as The Spiderman, Banana Splits, Jonathan Kidd (?) or Mr. Fantastic! Be a lovely Fairy or gay Gypsy.”
I don’t know, but I think whoever created the drawing of “The Spiderman” (why the Ohio State-like “the”?) costume either didn’t have a sample photo or had never seen a comic book or TV cartoon featuring Spidey.
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| My spider sense tells me this is a crummy rendering! |
Mr. Fantastic of the Fantastic Four doesn’t look very fantastic either, with the addition of a mask, and missing his iconic greying sides.
At least the mask of Bingo from the Banana Splits is a reasonable facsimile. (Bingo was never my favorite Banana Split. He wasn’t the leader like Fleegle, funny like Drooper or an oddball like Snorky. I rank him as the George Harrison of the team.)
2 comments:
in the 40s and early 50s there was not any 2 hour trick or treat night. Me and my buddies went out every night and tried to hit up every house on the west side, lake to 21st, Broadway to Levitt,sometimes we hit the same house twice----JESSSS looking back kina sorry for that, but folks were nice and we had our fill of candy till next october...Fun times nice thoughts
That's a nice memory of an innocent time. Similarly, my mother has told me that when she was a kid in the 1930s, trick or treating wasn’t restricted to just one night. It was kind of spread out over a week or so and there were a lot of pranks.
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