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Chalk One Up for the Owls
I found this chalkware owl at a garage sale over the summer. I was shocked to find it, because it was the only vintage piece among a bunch of newer Halloween decorations.He's flat on the...
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Day 13 of the Countdown, Ah Ha Haaaaaaaa
It must have been Christmas of 1976 when I received 3 Sesame Street puppets as a gift. It was Bert, Ernie and Cookie Monster. I don't recall asking for them, but it's possible. I was 9 years old...
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Ceramic Ghost and Jack O' Lantern
I recognized this popular design as taken from a Gurley candle. This is a ceramic mold based on that.He stands 12" tall and is painted rather nicely.There have been other decorations modeled after...
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Eureka Clown and Ghost Trick or Treaters
This is another Eureka piece I picked up in the past couple months. I bought it at the same sale where I found the owl. Here we see a couple of trick or treaters out for a night on the town. They're...
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Haunted Cookie Jar
You might ask, what's a cookie jar have to do with Halloween? Well, what if...IT'S HAUNTED!!!!It's been a thing on eBay for quite some time now for people to list things as "haunted". Mainly it's...
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A (Hay) Seed of Truth
Dennison produced this Pa and Ma Pumpkin set of diecuts in 1964. You can tell this is "Pa" by his broken and repaired glasses and by the ubiquitous hay stem clenched in his mouth. We know this is "Ma"...
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Imagineering Fake Skin
I've previously written about Imagineering and their glorious products and how they impacted my childhood. What I didn't know was how long they lasted.I found this Imagineering "Fake Skin" at an...
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The Blood (and Tears) of Clowns
Bridging off of yesterday's post, I present this Collegville/Imagineering Vampire Blood from 1995. This also answers the question, whatever happened to Imagineering.Again, I prefer the 1970's art by...
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Hanging Skeleton
I found this lone skeleton over the summer. He's marked Hong Kong and looks like something that would have been handed out at carnivals in the '70's.It reminded me of this.Then just last weekend, I was...
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Radioactive
My house cannot be attributed to any particular design aesthetic unless "Late Garage Sale Era" is a thing. For a while I focused on Mid-century modern pieces like this lamp, this 1950's Artcraft...
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Empire Pails
Empire Plastics produced Halloween blow molds including Trick or Treat pails from the 1960's through 2001. Most of their pails were the common Jack O' Lantern pails like those I've previously posted....
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A Lost Art
Today's post touches on a subject I raise here rather often: "they don't make them like they used to."Case in point, this paper Halloween plate I picked up a couple months ago. It probably dates to...
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Bucketful of Boos
There's been a lot of buzz in the Halloween community for the past few weeks about the re-release of the McDonald's Halloween Boo Buckets, particularly among millelenials who remember these from their...
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Halloween is Hallowed
As this is the last week leading up to Halloween, I thought I'd throw some additional random content out here for things that didn't warrant a lot of commentary or discussion or are just odd or weird...
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Cat Blow Mold
I found this little blow-molded black cat and Jack O'Lantern over the summer. It's only about 6" tall and isn't lighted, so not the typical Halloween blow mold we're used to. I can see this being sold...
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Jerk O'Lantern
I can't imagine the circumstances under which this pumpkin cutout was created.It has an elementary school feel to it, something that might have hung on the walls of a classroom. But I can't think of...
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Honeycomb Hitchhiker
Way back in 2014 during my first year in the Countdown to Halloween, I posted about these Honeycomb cereal box cutout records.This past year, I came across 2 more. One I had before ("Miser's Gold"),...
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Schnoz
I believe we're all familiar with the "Groucho Nose" glasses gag. They've been around for years, in fact since the 1940's. But did you know their proper name is "Beaglepuss"? The Topstone company...
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Kimple Haunted House
This 1970's Kimple Haunted House ceramic mold was an estate sale find this past summer. It was fairly cheap, so I picked it up. It's not signed anywhere, but I'm sure it was a ceramics class...
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Hang for Freat
This was actually a thrift store find. I knew it wasn't terribly old, but it's getting harder and harder to come by blow mold pieces these days and its hair plus pink eyes sold it to me. I found a...
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