Trick-Or-Treating Used To Be Like, Really Creepy — And 19 Other Photos That Show How Different Halloween Was In The 1920s
Spooky season lovers rejoice...Halloween is (finally) upon us! Whether you're putting the finishing touches on your costume or planning the menu for your Halloween party, now would be the perfect time for you to take a little break and travel back to the 1920s with me...
Halloween has had many different connotations and forms of celebration throughout history. But today, we are taking a look back to see just how much things have changed in the last 100 years. (Spoiler alert: Costumes used to be legitimately terrifying). From trick-or-treating to carving jack-o' lanterns — here are 21 spooktacular photos that show how different Halloween looked a century ago:
1.Just some good old-fashioned trick-or-treating:
I'm sorry, but if modern trick-or-treaters showed up in these costumes, I would just throw the whole bag of candy out on the porch...
2.These partygoers enjoying the Halloween festivities in 1928:
3.These college kids goofing around before a Halloween bash:
4.This beachy Halloween party (or maybe pageant?):
5.This festive apple-bobbing contest:
An apple a day keeps the doctor away — unless you're mixing saliva with five other people...
6.These friends are buying some pumpkins from a roadside stand:
I just know they would have loved Instagram...
7.This flapper putting up advertisements for a Halloween party in Greenwich Village:
Back when being a flapper wasn't just a fun costume...
8.These kiddos are picking pumpkins straight from the patch:
9.This tiny tot carving a jack-o'-lantern:
As you can see, parents in the 1920s' were very big on knife safety:
10.This mom chose the wiser path and helped her kids carve their jack o' lantern:
11.This "bewitching" group decided to dress up as a coven:
12.Here's Clara Bow celebrating Halloween long before she was the subject of a Taylor Swift song:
13.Here she was dressed as a witch:
14.This dapper group was all dressed up and ready to go to a Halloween party:
15.Parents were taking photos of their kids in pumpkins even before social media existed:
16.These dancers rehearsing for a "spellbinding" performance:
17.This very convincing (and terrifying) costume:
18.These diners celebrating Halloween at New York's then-hottest restaurant, Samovar:
19.This little Mickey Mouse fan who's all ready for spooky season:
20.And finally, this totally not cursed photo of a family spending a spooky evening in a cornfield:
Which one of these photos was your favorite? What do you think has changed the most about Halloween in the past century? Let us know in the comments!
