1962 & 1972 Gray Drug Halloween Ads

Well, it's Halloween – so here's yet another vintage store ad with that theme, so we can check out the costumes and candy that trick-or-treaters were interested in. The store is Gray Drug, and the ad ran in the Journal on October 25, 1962.

It looks like the only character from TV at that time appearing as a costume in the ad is none other than Bullwinkle the Moose. Here's what the costume looked like. (It's fresh from eBay right now.)

I like the rendition of Bullwinkle (as well as Boris and Natasha) on the costume, but where's his pal, Rocky? And I'm not too amoosed but the design or color of the mask. Oh well.

There's plenty of other things to gawk at in the Gray Drug ad, including weird candy such as Klein's Lunch Bar. 

Courtesy candywrappermuseum.com

And the special punch card promotion for Melmac dinnerware. (Wasn't that Alf's home planet?)

Fast forward ten years and we see another vintage Gray Drug ad, this time from the October 19, 1972 Journal. 

The lackadaisical Gray Drug buying team apparently just decided to go with the same Halloween costume lineup as 1971, with Heckle & Jeckle (one of them, anyway), Bugaloo Boy, etc. (I posted that ad for your enjoyment here, last year.) 

The rest of the ad actually resembles what you would expect of a drug store ad, with plenty o' pills and other products to make you feel better.