Vintage Halloween

[Huaco Kid]

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I remember costumes like this.

I don't think they can still sell some of the decorations and toys we used to have.  Because you might creep-out little Holden, and make him go on anxiety drugs.

[Huaco Kid]

I think most of it was paper mache.  Yesterday's newspaper was free,  and the glue was just laying around (horses just died all the time).

Give a kid a bucket of glue and a barn-full of rags and sacks.

[Huaco Kid]

And kids today don't have any imagination left.

Even Lego has instructions now.

[Walt Longmire]

We just all dressed like hobos. No costume needed. Couldn't even afford a Casper mask.

[Huaco Kid]

1 hour ago, Walt Longmire said:

We just all dressed like hobos. No costume needed. Couldn't even afford a Casper mask.

Mostly.  Burnt-corks for beards, and Dad's old suits (or one's he needed Monday morning.  oops.)

[Huaco Kid]

In the young-adult years,  we had epic parties.

Somewhere,  there's pictures of me as Jesus (it was very cool).  And the pictures were more magnificent because they were shooting me with roman-candles, at the same time)

And once as Godzilla,  made from cardboard boxes.  And I had rigged a WD-40 can,  in my belly-box,  with tubing going to the mouth.  And a bbq-lighter sparker in my mouth. 

And went around blowing flames at everyone and setting everything on fire.

Probably got shot with pyrotechnics, then, too.

[Huaco Kid]

I once went as a hockey player, in Texas.  I had all the real gear.   Most people didn't get it.

The coolest part was that I blacked-out my front teeth with a Sharpie marker.  Wicked cool.

But then,  you have to go to work,  for the next two weeks,  with your teeth blacked-out. 

'Cause that **** don't come off.