A lot’s changed about Halloween since we were trick-or-treating. Click through these pictures from October 31 predominantly in the 1960s and 70s to relive your trick-or-treating days.
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Vintage Halloween Parade
melissanatiques via Instagram No matter what costume you sported back in the day, it required some kind of mask, or at least eyewear. In the 21st century, you're not likely to see many trick-or-treaters with their faces covered! -
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Vintage Cat and Moon Halloween Decoration
elfhead via Instagram Before Halloween lights were a thing, this black cat sitting on a big-nosed moon was the decoration that was EVERYWHERE. -
Skeleton Decoration With Joints
ddollisen via Instagram The most high-tech decoration we saw back then was this omnipresent skeleton with working joints. If you didn't have one in your home, we bet you had one in your classroom. -
Halloween Trick or Treater Collecting for Unicef
mackaypj via Instagram Everything about this little trick-or-treater is retro: the mask that's completely unrelated to her disguise, the candy sack instead of a more modern plastic pumpkin, and the UNICEF box she's holding. We don't see too many kids collecting for UNICEF on Halloween anymore! -
Disney Halloween Costume
via Imgur Lots of costumes based on animated characters didn't come CLOSE to looking like what you saw on screen! While it's all too common to see perfect replicas of Elsa from Frozen roaming the streets now, you probably won't see anyone like the tiny tot in the front of this picture, who was supposed to be Cinderella! -
Brachs Vintage Halloween Candy
jillkori via Instagram The Brach's ads were so delicious-looking, even though today's parents would make unwrapped candy off-limits for their costumed kids. -
Instagram Star Wars Characters And Clown
elftwinfilms via Instagram Pretty much every Star Wars character knocked on the door--though with masks like that, it probably wasn't easy for them to find their way! -
Instagram Brachs Trick Or Treat Bags
onegirlscloset via Instagram Before the plastic pumpkin invention, we toted our loot in everything from burlap sacks to pillowcases to these branded paper bags. -
Group of Kids Trick Or Treating
Juniata County History Project collection, M, Historical Collections and Labor Archives, Special Collections Library, University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University. Roving bands of children trick-or-treating without parents was a perfectly normal thing when you knew all your neighbors! But even in the safest American neighborhoods these days, you're likely to see an adult for every child or two collecting Halloween candy. -
Harem Girl Halloween Costume
neladajack via Instagram This same costume now would surely bare a midriff, but little girls were much more modest in the 1960s, when this was taken! -
Raggedy Ann Halloween Costume In Box
upsixvintage via Instagram Remember when costumes came in a box? And no matter what disguise you chose, the mask was always visible through that clear plastic window. -
Vintage Halloween Masks
madslucky13 via Instagram Can't you feel (and smell!) the rubber just from looking at this photo?! And why did all masks of women look like their lips were over-pumped with collagen? -
Masks Instagram
obscuralosangeles via Instagram Mid-century trick-or-treaters had a much better handle on choosing creepy costumes than today's kids!