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Look What You Can Do...With Cottage Cheese!
The title of this pamphlet from Quality Dairy Products, a defunct dairy company here in St. Louis, hints that there were more of these pamphlets with different products following the ellipsis. This one...
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If Your Child Fails to Grow Bigger, It's No Wonder
Today's pamphlet comes to us from the folks at Wonder Bread. Apparently, Fathers don't care how Wonder Bread helps his son (and let's face it, that's all we're worried about here. Daughter's should be...
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Homemaking with a Flair 1970
"Homemaking with a flair" comes to us from the Fall of 1970. Just another booklet filled with expired coupons and dubious recipes. I don't know why people saved these. Maybe for the same reason I buy...
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Halloween -- It's My Bag Baby, Again
I know, it's a dated joke, from a dated (14-years-old) movie and I use it every year, but it's the truth. Halloween is indeed my bag, baby.I'm once again participating in the Countdown to Halloween....
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Witch's Brew
I wrote previously about the beer can collection I had when I was a kid. Even though I don't drink beer, I'm still fascinated by the multitude and variations of the cans. This can caught my eye this...
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Beistle Halloween Pirate Die Cuts
These early Beistle die cuts are probably my favorite ones found this year.They are fairly large for die cuts, standing 18" tall. They're not in the best shape, but I think they're pretty...
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Sliding into Halloween Once Again
Here are a couple Halloween-themed 35mm slides found among the many I picked up this past year. What's spooky about this one is the kid is completely unfazed.While this picture isn't particularly...
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Speak-Easy
The first mask posting of the season is this Ben Cooper "Speak-Easy Mask" from 1984.So called for the fact it only covers your face up to your mouth, allowing you to converse without muffling your...
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Witchcraft Primer
Though technically not Halloween, this "Eclectic Primary History of The United States" published in 1884 covers (if very briefly) the Salem Witch Trials. I thought the engraving warranted a closer...
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Frankenstein or Bust!
When I found this mini-Frankenstein bust (I know, Frankenstein was the Doctor, he's Frankenstein's Monster, blah, blah blah. Hey, it's on the bust!) in a bag of miscellaneous toys last summer, I had no...
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Don't Lose Your Head
When I saw this shrunken head hanging from a bar at an estate sale, I immediately grabbed it. Well, first I made sure it wasn't real.It wasn't too hard to see it wasn't real, but it was still cool...
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Have a Dynamite Halloween!
I've spoken before about my love for Scholastic Publications when I was a kid. The day that flyer arrived along with the day the books I ordered came in made school that much more tolerable. Dynamite...
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Jack and Jill October, 1951
This October 1951 issue of "Jack and Jill" was another in the same lot I bought that was featured in last month's post.The cover is a watercolor by Dorothea Cooke who illustrated mainly for "Jack and...
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Cat Nap-kins
It's always fun this time of year, as I pull things out of my big box o' Halloween finds, to come across something I've not just forgotten I'd bought, but can't even remember buying. That was the case...
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Light Up the Night
My parents had no qualms about sending me out into the night alone on Halloween. Their only rule (really, my Mom's rule as my Dad didn't even know what I was doing most of the time) was that I was not...
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Racheting Up a Halloween Frenzy
When I first saw this ratchet noisemaker at an estate sale, I almost passed on it. It was in a bag of other miscellaneous junk for $4 and frankly, I have enough noisemakers.I came back the next day...
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Fun World Pumpkin Inflatable
While there are no markings on this pumpkin inflatable, it's attributed to Fun World, Inc. and was made in the 1970's.Fun World is still in business, specializing in holiday decorations and are best...
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Gurley Witch
Gurley candles, such as this witch, were a Halloween staple of the 1970's.I've previously written about Gurley, aka W &F Wax aka Glenn Confections, and their most-fondly remembered item, the Wowe-E...
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Halloween Mask-o-rama
It's time to display some of the Halloween masks and costumes I've picked up over the past year. Most are unmarked and unidentified. Let me know if you recognize one.Morticia Addams, Ben Cooper...
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Halloween Hang Up
I found this Halloween door hanger in a box lot I bought at an estate sale about a month ago. Based on the artwork, I first assumed it was new.But then I saw the country of manufacture stamped on...
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