I love Halloween-you can act like a moron all year long-but on Halloween its ok!
I remember my first Halloween costume-its was one of the cheap masks that came in a box with a weird smock. I was a skeleton! We ran around kicking pumpkin heads!
OH! this IS Karloff's voice!
http://youtu.be/89sL4R50Z6E (http://youtu.be/89sL4R50Z6E)
If your a Yankee-like me-you seen this in the late 60's. We lived in Milton,NY.
Scared the s**t outta me too. Vampira-her reaching for me-! AH! I was a little kid! I jumped over the couch! I was 6!
http://youtu.be/lXi4NFgG_Vs (http://youtu.be/lXi4NFgG_Vs)
Then it went to this!
This I seen when I went from Michigan to NYC on foot. I stayed with my Grandma in the Bronx for a year.
http://youtu.be/Ux3laLkueZk (http://youtu.be/Ux3laLkueZk)
Both very awesome in their charming ways!
I can't remember what my first costume was.
I do remember a few different ones I had when I waas young. I can't recall what order they were in though.
One of my costume was Captain America, that I insisted on having a stary cape with.
There was what I considered a swamp monster. It was a rubber mask of some green skinned bald monster, rubber frankenstein gloves, camouflage clothes, and a plastic executioners axe.
Also, when Batman (the 89 version) came out I went as him that year in a costume my mom made for me.
I also remember a rubber skull mask and a mom-made skeleton outfit, but that may have belonged to my brother not me.
Oh, and Egon from the Real Ghostbusters.
I was 5, and my Halloween costume was that of a rabbit. That is the 1st Halloween costume that I remember.
Retailers love Halloween, too, as I understand Halloween is the biggest retail season for them next to Christmas.
I've been making Halloween CD-Rs erry year. Good music.
Halloween is when the rest of the weirdos catch up to we normal people. (Yes, I said that right.)
first one i recall is being a polar bear, and my big brother was a grizzly bear. we lived in newfoundland at the time, i was 3,he was 7.
first stateside costume i remember is a rather chubby fairy, because of the longjohns under it,lol! i was 7.
then my brother and i had our tonsils out the next year and our uncle sent us a TON of famous monsters mags and we got into monster makeup. from then on in, every kid we knew was a monster of some sort...my parents were pretty awesome, lol! and i still do sfx makeup almost 50 years later. :D