From Zombos' Closet

Halloween Past: My Cowboy Dress Up

Here's me at the tender age of 4 in 1960, getting ready for Halloween. Sure, it may only be May, but it's never too early to try on your costume to make sure it fits just right. That big rifle I'm holding (well, relatively speaking, of course) was a sick-kid present (chickenpox). I loved it. I hated it. Every time I pulled the lever down and back up it pinched my finger badly. But I kept playing with it and shooting bad guys, monsters, and creepy shadows until my finger hurt too much. I like to remember it as a teachable life-moment. And after all those candy cigarettes I never did take up smoking. I do eat a lot of candy, though.

Halloween Pop Up Stickers Witch on Broomstick

Would love to see these plastic pop ups in a larger size. This one's around 6 inches high. The cat looks like he's hanging on for dear life. Another lively retro design.

Halloween Pop Up Stickers Witch

At around 8 inches tall, this Halloween Witch is bitchin'. I normally prefer paper decorations, but this plastic sticker's retro-styled illustration is so colorful and imaginative, I could't resist.

How Much Longer to Halloween?

So...how much longer to Halloween?

 

Halloween Beistle Action Dancer Dracula

Is it Halloween yet?

 

 

 

 

Halloween Topstone's Honeycomb Witch

Is it Halloween yet?

Halloween Beistle Art-Tissue Witch Centerpiece

Is it too early to start thinking about Halloween 2012? Anyway, here's to a witchin' New Year!

Halloween Eureka Glittering Ghouls Witch

This is a neat series of Halloween tissue decorations from Eureka, though I'm not sure of the date. The reverse side is also printed, but you can see the witch's eyes instead of the glittering plastic one's she's showing on this side. Note the large creepy hands. The Mummy in the series is more cutesy, making its glittering eyes less effective than you see here.

Halloween Russ Honeycomb Cauldron Witch

I like to imagine those are Hansel's teeth she's wearing as a necklace: I was so disappointed she never got to eat him.

Halloween Eureka Haunted Castle

This 23 inch 3D Halloween Haunted Castle decoration from Eureka has entertaining accents like the alligator in the moat, the sinister eyes staring at you, and if you look closely at the left tower window you'll see a pair of green hands holding onto the bars. 

Halloween Beistle Jointed Dracula

Here's a puzzle: this striking Beistle 36 inch jointed Dracula from 1998 with the wild eyes and toothy bite is not the one depicted on the packaging label below. Funny, but I just noticed that while scanning this sucker. I wonder why the design change? That dapper vampire on the label is definitely less in-biting, don't you think? He's more cartoony, while this Dracula is more mes...mer...izing... good lord!, don't stare into his eyesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss...............................................

Halloween Universal Monsters Window Color-Clings

I'm not a fan of window-clings: they fade, they're small, so what's the point? Give me big decorations I can show off my Halloween pride with satisfaction. Now these designs are trendy; wish they'd have posterized them or made nice and BIG paper or (gulp) even window-clings of substantial size. Now that would be thrilling.