While October 31 is a famous day of candy, costumes, and spooky Halloween decorations, the spooky holiday has evolved over the years from where it started.
From awkward office festivities to neighborhood costume parties, take a look back at how people celebrated Halloween in decades past through these 27 fascinating vintage pictures:
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Early 20th-century partygoers pose for a Halloween photo. |
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These partygoers from the early twentieth century look utterly eerie. |
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These witches are bobbing for apples at a fancy Halloween party in 1922. |
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A group of men dressing as witches while holding brooms in their hands, 1922. |
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Children playing pumpkin ring toss, 1925. |
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Three girls wearing masked costumes in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1929. |
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Lucille Ball (first row, third from the left) rolled up to the party in a stroller, 1935. |
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Children surrounded by ghosts go bobbing for apples at a Halloween party around 1935. |
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Clowns and cowboy costumes were all the rage when it came to Halloween in the late '40s, 1946. |
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A ghoulish goblin and a painted clown embrace at a Halloween party in 1955. |
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Masked guests arrive at a fancy Halloween costume party circa 1956. |
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Witches brew, 1950s. |
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Costume party. |
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Costume party. |
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Costume party. |
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Guess Who? |
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Four masked trick-or-treaters gather around a jack-'o-lantern in the 1960s. |
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People dressing as skeletons and ghosts on their way to a Halloween party. |
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Coneheads Halloween party. |
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Halloween office party, 1960s. |
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Halloween office party, 1960s. |
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Halloween party, 1960s. |
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Homemade Star Wars costumes, 1977. |
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A Halloween party in the eighties. |
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A Halloween party in the eighties. |
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Twiggy and Tommy Tune dressing up for an event in 1984. |
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Children line up outside Park Will Elementary in Denver, waiting for their Halloween parade to start, 1986. |
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