{"id":6629,"date":"2012-10-01T14:22:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T18:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=6629"},"modified":"2012-10-01T14:22:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T18:22:50","slug":"my-earliest-halloween-photo-brachs-trick-or-treats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=6629","title":{"rendered":"My Earliest Halloween Photo – Brach’s Trick or Treats!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s October 1st so I’d like to welcome you to my first official post as part of CollectingCandy.com’s month-long Countdown to Halloween!\u00a0 I’m starting with a small post today, but one that is ever so personal to me.\u00a0 For today’s post, I’d like to share my earliest Halloween photo.<\/p>\n

This one comes from all the way back in 1972 (possibly 1971, I’m not 100% certain).\u00a0 This photo features my brother Jeff on the left with our pal Jay Burton on the right, both in homemade Superman costumes, and a wild-eyed young me in a panther costume below.\u00a0 Ahem…<\/p>\n

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My Earliest Halloween Photo – 1972<\/p><\/div>\n

There I am, forty years ago, already being held back from a full sugar-rush rampage.\u00a0 Looking back, I don’t know quite what to make of my cat-like headgear, but clearly it wasn’t slowing me down.<\/p>\n

When I came across this photo a few years ago, I took note of the Brach’s Trick or Treat bags we were carrying (and that had yet to be filled with goodies).<\/p>\n

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Brach’s Halloween bag photo close-up<\/p><\/div>\n

I have to wonder what confectionery delights I ended up collecting and consuming that night, so many years ago.\u00a0 If only I had a photo of the end of the night to go along with this one.<\/p>\n

This photo not only delivered a wonderful dose of personal nostalgia, but also a bit of hobby inspiration.\u00a0\u00a0 I am a collector after all, and I love a good hunt.\u00a0 So I set out to find one of those Brach’s Halloween bags.<\/p>\n

Eventually, I turned one up and it became a fun part of my collection.\u00a0 Here it is:<\/p>\n

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Brach’s Halloween Trick or Treats paper bag – Early 1970’s<\/p><\/div>\n

The design on the Brach’s treat bag is simple but timeless.\u00a0 I could easily imagine this on a treat bag in 2012.<\/p>\n

That’s everything for today’s fist entry on our countdown to Halloween.\u00a0 If you’d like to check out more Halloween countdown goodness, make sure to check out the official CountdownToHalloween <\/a>site, for links to all the other folks taking part in this fun, month-long celebration.<\/p>\n

We’ve got plenty more Halloween candy goodness lined up, so make sure you keep dropping by as the month progresses.\u00a0\u00a0 See you next time…<\/p>\n

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Dreaming of Halloween candy yet-to-come…<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s October 1st so I’d like to welcome you to my first official post as part of CollectingCandy.com’s month-long Countdown to Halloween!\u00a0 I’m starting with a small post today, but one that is ever so personal to me.\u00a0 For today’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,252],"tags":[1206,588,379,28,321,316,328,351,332,14,324,78,333,1222,21,15,348,11],"class_list":["post-6629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1970s","category-halloween","tag-1970s","tag-1970s-halloween","tag-70s-candy","tag-brachs","tag-candy-collecting","tag-candy-collection","tag-candy-collector","tag-candy-wrapper-collection","tag-candy-wrapper-collector","tag-collectible","tag-collecting-candy","tag-confectionery","tag-confections","tag-halloween","tag-packaging","tag-sweets","tag-vintage-candy-wrapper","tag-wrapper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2aFGk-1IV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6629"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6641,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629\/revisions\/6641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}