Water Skiing Witches Wearing Jantzen “Wonder Girl” Swimsuits at Cypress Gardens, Florida, 1954

In suitable witches raiment (and lovelier witches it would be hard to find), sorcerers of Cypress Gardens switch from broomsticks to broomskiis (and this is not to say it is an invention of the Russians) to herald the dawn of Halloween.

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