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Since we missed halfway to Halloween a couple of days ago, I put together some 1960’s Collegeville Boxed Costume Ads for you boxed costume junkies. The first ad is from Halloween 1964, from the Chicago Heights Shoppers world. Wrapped caramels, Mars Bars, Planter’s peanuts and chocolate-covered raisins and safety pops …
Sally’s Minneapolis Halloween 1957 catalog cover shows #135 deluxe masquerade costumes including Flash, Batman, Wonder Woman, Robin, Hawkman, and Green Lantern. #P2599 Transparent Plastic Masks. #M900 Luminous Might Masks. #M304 Plastic Space Masks. Vinyl plastic Halloween Masks come in animals, people, and assorted scary characters. Gauze masks and hooded masks! …
Browse the 2016 Halloween blow molds from General Foam. Known by “Fright Time Decor” and “Home for the Holidays” (Christmas, not pictured), this is the 2016 GFP or General Foam Plastics 2016 decor catalog. General Foam Blow Molds 2016 – Page 1 contains:
2015 boasts a “new” General Foam. Take a look at the offerings for that year in the 2015 Halloween Blow Molds catalog. The catalog starts off with a short blurb about the NEW General Foam, and a “How to Haunt a House” thematic event. The first page goes on to …
2004 TPI Halloween blow molds catalog: TPI sold the company in 2004 and none of its designs have been produced since then. That makes the 2004 TPI Halloween Blow Molds catalog the last one. They were incorporated in 1986 and began producing products in 1987. TPI stands for Tucker Products, …
Take a peek inside the 2004 Union Blow Molds catalog for all the blow molded and plastic Halloween offerings that year! 2004 Union Blow Molds Plastic cauldrons and kettles, ranging from 8″ to 22″, with and without fake or actual handles. 22″ high Blinking Pumpkin was also available without the …
What cool (I mean spooky) plastic decorations did Empire Plastics have to offer up in 1992? Enjoy witches, ghosts, skeletons, tombstones, and more from the 1992 Empire Plastics Halloween catalog! Tabletops! Flats. Baskets
1983 Empire Pumpkin blow molds! Here’s a couple of pages snagged from the Fall 1983 Empire Plastics catalog. The first page features plastic wall hangings, plastic pumpkin baskets in a 3 pack, and jack-o-lantern flashlights. There are also the tabletop decor featuring a pumpkin headed man wearing a hat, a …
The 1968 Ben Cooper Costumes catalog is called “Spook Town”. The Ben Cooper company manufactured Halloween costumes from the 1930’s through the 1980’s in the USA. For a time, Ben Cooper was one of the top 3 costume makers in the country, alongside Collegeville and the H. Halpern Company. The …
Eye candy time! A 1958 – 1959 Beistle Company Halloween Catalog! Can you imagine seeing the display at 200 Fifth Avenue? Page one of the 1958-1959 Beistle Halloween Catalog: No. 1503 Dan-Dee Hallowe’en Decorating Kit! A wide variety of attractive Halloween decorations, specially selected to satisfy most window trimmers needs. …
I was trolling some local Euclid (Cleveland) newspaper archives for something unrelated to Halloween, but the Halloween Gods were smiling upon me as always, and gave me some nice eye candy PLUS Bayshore adverts! Everyone is coming to Smith’s Annual Hallowe’en Party, Thursday, October 28, 1965. Smith’s was a restaurant …
So you’re a kid and you’re out with your friends, having the time of your lives running from house to house frantically while clinging for dear life onto that pillow sack or pumpkin pail. Awesome, isn’t it? Then… raisins. And brief confusion. Maybe I’m in the minority because while I …
Nestled in this cute little booklet measuring about 6 by 3 and a half inches is all sorts of reasons why you just gotta have the gel. Their suggestion for a festive Halloween cake! Aren’t you kind of surprised it isn’t Hallowe’en? I am. A flying witch and freaked out …
Here’s a nifty one: a mold to make house shapes out of boxed cake mix. Think, I mean really give this some thought… you would never have to eat a flat, boring cake again. Not even circular cakey-cakes can hold a candle to a house cake! To demonstrate how much …
Seriously… how could I have missed this? These are 2 pages from the 1972 Bayshore catalog… blow molded figures! Lights! There’s more, too, like masks and all kinds of sort of vintage goodies, at the source. I would give anything for a copy of this catalog, by the way, …
