Comments on: “Trick-or-Drink”, Miami Beach, Florida, 1959

By: Michele

Michele — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:19:58 +0000

My mom was a young girl in the 40s in Pennsylvania. She went trick-or-treating, although I don’t know what her costumes were, I’ll have to ask her soon.

She said the treats they’d get were usually apples, pennies, or homemade, like brownies, that were wrapped in waxed paper. The apples that were tossed into the bags would smoosh the brownies and crumble them right out of their wax paper wrappings in their pillow case bags!

She thought it was pretty nifty when, decades later, her own children were receiving nicely wrapped bite-sized treats of their own.

By: Pattie

Pattie — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:01:24 +0000

Please come to the East coast for some shows!!!

By: Donna

Donna — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:28:32 +0000

I wouldn’t call it two timin’, I would call it greedy! Ha ha ha, wish I would have thought of doing that!

By: arnaud bozzini

arnaud bozzini — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:15:52 +0000

i like it … it’s a very good discovery

By: Willie

Willie — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:39:37 +0000

I was born in 1938 in Ct. and as a kid always went trick or treating – my parents would take me when I was a toddler so it started way before the 50′s. People gave out a large candy bar which was only 5 cents back then

By: Sunny

Sunny — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:06:37 +0000

I believe that Trick or Treating started earlier. Wikopedia credits it as early as 1915. The Meet Me In St. Louis musical movie shows a rudimentary form of Trick or Treat in 1904 – the film was based on a woman’s autobiography. My mother in her 80s says she remembers dressing up in costume in LA in the late 1920s and going Trick or Treat in her neighborhood – says most of the girls dressed up as witches, fairies or Clara Bow, the movie star with a red wig! A few years later in the 1930s she say ALL the little girls dressed as Shirley Temple. Were the movie star costumes an LA phenomenon? Would be interesting to hear from your fans in other parts of the country. My older brother remembers dressing up as Hopalong Cassidy to Trick or Treat in the late 1940s.

Thanks for the wonderful slides each time! Keep up the good work!

A big fan,
Sunny in Palm Springs

By: Nudie Girl #2

Nudie Girl #2 — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:15:45 +0000

This one is hilarious! I wonder if after a few drinks they didn’t swap partners as well as genders! The “ladies” and “gentlemen” seem like they have a few tricks up their sleeves, IYKWIMAITYD!

By: Donna Eisenberg

Donna Eisenberg — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:00:40 +0000

I love your slides! They remind me of growing up. Speaking of reminding, doesn’t the fellow on the left look like Boy George? He could be Boy’s father! That’s how Boy George got started wearing makeup! He saw his Dad doing it!