Welcome to Halloween 2021! Well, technically, we have 30 more days to go. But today kicks off my 7th annual participation in the Countdown to Halloween wherein I (attempt to) entertain you with my Halloween-related items I've bought at garage and estate sales in the previous year. And let me be clear: I stretch the definition of "Halloween-related" pretty far. Hey, I need to pad things out if I want to post every day.
As is de rigueur, my first offering is this year's bag:
Over the years, I've bored you to death regaled you with my memories of shopping at our local Ben Franklin. How it was part of the triumvirate of monthly Saturday afternoons -- Barbershop (for haircut, of course), Rexall Drugs (for comics) and Ben Franklin (for candy). October was particularly joyous at Ben Franklin as the costumes and decorations reappeared on the shelves after a nearly year-long hiatus. Every decoration was examined. Every mask had to be tried on. I longed for the expensive rubber masks. Heck, I longed for any mask. But I usually ended up making myself up. The only store-bought costume I ever had was the Ben Cooper Spider-man in First Grade. Toward the end of my Trick or Treating career, I was able to save up enough money to buy a mask; an old man with wild, white hair. I'm not sure why I chose that one over the various monsters. I was a weird kid.
Anyway, back to the bag. Based on the graphic, I would date it to the 1960's.
The design is one-sided, with a plain black background on the reverse.
It was made by Storpak (in spooky font; it kind of looks like "Butcherman").
While you're chewing on that, get Trick or Treating on over at The Countdown to Halloween and be sure to bring your bag -- they're handing out Fun-sized Treats for all!
And there you have it. The first post of Halloween. Check back daily and I'll try to keep them coming.
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