A Friday the 13th party in 1940

Tomorrow is the first Friday the 13th of 2012. To celebrate, LIFE.com posted a terrific gallery of photos from a "Friday the 13th Party" that took place December 13, 1940, in Room 13 at the Merchants & Manufacturers Club of Chicago. "Chicago's Anti-Superstition Society, 1940"

• [grimc]

  …and within a year, all the attendees had died under mysterious circumstances…

  • [Donald Petersen]

    Well, they’re certainly all dead now.  So you have been warned.

• [License Farm]

  Woo! Ain’t no party like a superstition-violating party cuz a superstition-violating party don’t stop TIL YOU SUDDENLY DROP DEAD.

• [Jonathan Roberts]

  I suppose superstition must have been a big problem, there are quite a few important people there. Lieutenant-governor-elect of Illinois, vice president of Pullman co. and  head of the Chicago district of the Secret Service acting like 8 year olds who just discovered there’s no Santa? I guess old white men had more fun back then.

• [Ant]

  One ugly web page with all images: http://deslide.clusterfake.net/?o=html_table&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.life.com%2Fhdgallery%2F50771%2Fchicagos-anti-superstition-society-1940%23index%2F0 or http://desli.de/281