Comments on: Old timey Halloween photos http://boingboing.net/2008/10/06/old-timey-halloween.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 20:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Enormo http://boingboing.net/2008/10/06/old-timey-halloween.html#comment-301569 Enormo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-301569 <i>Yeah, that's not racist at all.</i> Oh, crap. I just got it. Yeah, that’s not racist at all.

Oh, crap. I just got it.

]]> By: HazardsPay http://boingboing.net/2008/10/06/old-timey-halloween.html#comment-302109 HazardsPay Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-302109 This picture is right at the onset of the tradition of "trick-or-treating" being established. Halloween is a prank holiday as of the date of this photo, not a candy holiday like it is today. Notice the lack of "candy bags." I wouldn't be surprised to see baseball bats and clubs instead. Major creepy. This picture is right at the onset of the tradition of “trick-or-treating” being established. Halloween is a prank holiday as of the date of this photo, not a candy holiday like it is today. Notice the lack of “candy bags.” I wouldn’t be surprised to see baseball bats and clubs instead. Major creepy.

]]> By: mariehartsf http://boingboing.net/2008/10/06/old-timey-halloween.html#comment-621113 mariehartsf Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-621113 Good grief, people. Nothing about this photo looks like Klansmen. Not a single thing. Name ONE similarity, unless you think the mere fact that the children are in costume makes them look like Klansmen. If that's your criteria, then every costume in the world qualifies as a Klansman outfit. Stupid. Good grief, people. Nothing about this photo looks like Klansmen. Not a single thing. Name ONE similarity, unless you think the mere fact that the children are in costume makes them look like Klansmen. If that’s your criteria, then every costume in the world qualifies as a Klansman outfit. Stupid.

]]> By: squeem http://boingboing.net/2008/10/06/old-timey-halloween.html#comment-301675 squeem Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-301675 i would wait to label it racist until i knew the story behind the materials used. i believe back at that point the kkk were using a different sort of..hat(?), but i am not entirely sure. anyway, if i saw a troop of kids coming at me like in that first picture i would shit. i wish i knew enough little kids to dress them up that creepy. halloween just isn't what it was, say, 15 years ago. i am in mexico city no, though, i am looking forward to their day of the dead celebrations. i'd like to see the mummy parades. i would wait to label it racist until i knew the story behind the materials used. i believe back at that point the kkk were using a different sort of..hat(?), but i am not entirely sure.

anyway, if i saw a troop of kids coming at me like in that first picture i would shit. i wish i knew enough little kids to dress them up that creepy.
halloween just isn’t what it was, say, 15 years ago.
i am in mexico city no, though, i am looking forward to their day of the dead celebrations. i’d like to see the mummy parades.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2008/10/06/old-timey-halloween.html#comment-301428 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-301428 Somehow, with the crude costumes and old photo stock, this is major creepy. Somehow, with the crude costumes and old photo stock, this is major creepy.

]]> By: OM http://boingboing.net/2008/10/06/old-timey-halloween.html#comment-302197 OM Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-302197 ...Great Rao! It's a bunch of Klansmen from the Bizarro World! …Great Rao! It’s a bunch of Klansmen from the Bizarro World!

]]> By: Garbanzo http://boingboing.net/2008/10/06/old-timey-halloween.html#comment-301701 Garbanzo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-301701 Are they supposed to be blackface bobbleheads? Are they supposed to be blackface bobbleheads?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2008/10/06/old-timey-halloween.html#comment-301454 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-301454 It always nice to see a picture from my nightmare before I actually dream it. Yikes. It always nice to see a picture from my nightmare before I actually dream it. Yikes.

]]> By: mwschmeer http://boingboing.net/2008/10/06/old-timey-halloween.html#comment-301508 mwschmeer Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-301508 Yeah, that's not racist at all. Yeah, that’s not racist at all.

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