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Costumes ←Rare “Space Cop” Halloween witch’s pot full of vampires, ghosts, companies obtained the licenses to
many of these television and cartoon
cartoon character, presidential, and,
Continued from Page 24 costume by Collegeville yes, witchy costumes. characters and began mass producing
with box; $20.
Collegeville added a line of makeup inexpensive representations of them
Every costume Collegeville and makeup accessories in 1991, in costume form for less than $3 each,
created (whether a cartoon changing its name to “Collegeville/ which amounts to about $12 per costume
character, monster, or super Imagineering.” And in 1996 Rubies in 21st century money. Collegeville
hero) consisted of a plastic Costume Company purchased distinguished itself with speed,
mask (held in place over a Collegeville. since faster than a speeding bullet,
child’s eyes by a thin rubber It wasn’t until C o l l e g e v i l l e
band wrapped around the after World War would buy
head) and a silk-screened II, however, l i c e nsi ng
clothe cape or body that that Halloween rights, produce
pulled over the head and tied costume costumes and get
at the back of the neck. manufacturing them onto store
Around 1931, became big shelves, which
Collegeville moved into business. The opened a whole
children’s Halloween By the end rise of television new world of
costumes when it licensed of WWII and in the 1950s (and costuming
the rights of Hopalong the start of the the popularity for children.
Cassidy and Mortimer Baby Boomer of children TV Department
Snerd (a dummy character generation, Halloween shows such stores, such
for ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. became a night of “tricks-o-treats” as Superman, as Sears and
Licensing rights gave companies where children roamed in frightening, Zorro, and Davy Mo nt go m e ry
exclusive rights to a character’s image, creepy, or playful costumes, many of Crockett) and the Wards, and Five
so companies fought each other for them made by Collegeville. rise of newspaper & Dive stores,
these licensing rights. In the mid-1950s, marketing c a r t o o n such as Kresges
Some of Collegeville’s earliest companies, eager to jump on the characters, and Woolworths,
costumes are labeled “Masquerade Halloween bandwagon, acknowledged especially in ↑This 1964 “Rat Fink” Halloween eagerly competed
Costume” and were intended as adult the growing demand for store-bought children’s culture, costume, designed by Ed Roth and to sell children’s
costumes since adult Halloween parties costumes, and companies, such as Collegeville and made by Collegeville Costumes, was Ha l l o we e n
remained popular through the 1930s. Collegeville, began turning out a the other costume offered on eBay for $800. costumes since
each year, from
roughly 1950 –
OCALA - BELLEVIEW - CRYSTAL RIVER 1970, millions of dollars were spent
on Halloween items. The National
REDDICK - WILLISTON Retail Foundation (NRF) reported that
Americans will spend $8.4 billion on
Halloween in 2018. According to the
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aka from kids to Baby Boomer geezers like
myself—intend to spend an estimated
the Old Wander Inn $83 each on Halloween costumes this
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