In the 60’s and 70’s if your parents had no imagination or extra time they could buy you a extremely flammable, dangerously hard to see out of mask with accompanying ill-fitting smock. These would come in, not only the old standbys like Frankenstein, Dracula, super heroes and clowns, but also the cultural icons of the day. To see small children in Kabe Caplin “Welcome Back Kotter” costumes or the Leather Guy from The Village People must have been something. How about creatively mind-boggling KFC’s Colonel Sanders, Robin Williams’ Mork, The Fonz, Donny Osmond, all 4 Beatles or Radar O’Reilly from Mash. The real odd-ball costumes were the “THINGS”, i.e. The shark from Jaws, Rubiks Cube, an asteroid from the video game Asteroids and Flipper, to name a very few. These went out of favor in the safety conscious 80’s when it was realized just how dangerous they actually were. Also who really wanted to wear an flammable New Kid’s on the Block, Donny Wahlberg costume anyway.
Cat, Clown and ?
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Superheroes – Spiderman & Wonder Woman
Chewie and Yoda
Donny Osmond
Creepy Bozo the Clown
KFC’s Colonel Sanders, Spiderman and Batman
Superman vs Batman
President Kennedy w/ a couple of witches
Fuck You Frankenstein
Kid in a Bag and the Devil
Charlie Brown and Wonder Woman
Fox and Happy Hobo
Dolly Parton (?) and a Clown
Freddy Frog, Witch and Mom
Jaws (!!!) and Flash
Snoopy, Clown, Skeleton (?) and Charlie Brown
Spaceman and the Devil
