Halloween is not exactly a typical holiday. Other holidays, like Christmas and Shavuot, celebrate an event. Halloween celebrates a lot of things, including the lives of people who aren't with us anymore.
Halloween in the 1950s was a far different holiday than today; no big box stores, just the five and dime and Woolworth’s. Very few kids had ever seen a store bought costume let alone owned one. The big scares for the night were pushing over someone’s outhouse, stealing a melon or two and running through the neighborhood in large packs of very mixed age groups.
\Children Celebrate Halloween in the 1950s
Children Celebrate Halloween in the 1950s
Children Celebrate Halloween in the 1950s
Children Celebrate Halloween in the 1950s
Children Celebrate Halloween in the 1950s
Children Celebrate Halloween in the 1950s
Children Celebrate Halloween in the 1950s
Children Celebrate Halloween in the 1950s
Children Celebrate Halloween in the 1950s
Children Celebrate Halloween in the 1950s
Children Celebrate Halloween in the 1950s
Children Celebrate Halloween in the 1950s
Children Celebrate Halloween in the 1950s
Children Celebrate Halloween in the 1950s
Children Celebrate Halloween in the 1950s
Children Celebrate Halloween in the 1950s
Children Celebrate Halloween in the 1950s
Children Celebrate Halloween in the 1950s
Children Celebrate Halloween in the 1950s
Children Celebrate Halloween in the 1950s