{"id":7187,"date":"2012-10-31T14:12:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T18:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=7187"},"modified":"2014-10-18T09:28:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T13:28:28","slug":"my-mid-70s-halloween-photos-all-that-great-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=7187","title":{"rendered":"My Mid-70’s Halloween Photos – All That Great Candy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I started my Countdown To Halloween thirty days ago with a personal recollection and a photo from my earliest Halloween<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I’d like to close out my month-long celebration in much the same way – with something fun and personal from my past that ties into the fun of Halloween candy and Halloween candy packaging.\u00a0\u00a0 So today I’m going to explore a pair of photos from one of my childhood Halloweens, circa 1975 or 1976.<\/p>\n

I wish I had photos from some of the other Halloweens I celebrated as a kid, but at least I have these.<\/p>\n

In these photos, you’ll see me in my Ben Cooper Batman costume, and my big brother Jeff\u00a0 decked out in his Ben Cooper Six-Million Dollar Man getup (That’s my grandmother working the sewing machine in the background and my mother is the one taking the photo). \u00a0 Here we are:<\/p>\n

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Jeff and Jason – Halloween 1975 or 1976 – Ben Cooper Six Million Dollar Man and Batman<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jason and Jeff Unmasked! – Halloween 1975 or 1976<\/p><\/div>\n

This second photo allows me to have a little CollectingCandy fun, because as you can see, we had a card table set up and we were actively sorting out the goodies we had grabbed during our evening of trick-or-treating.\u00a0 Well, my brother was sorting – I appear to be trying to scrape-and-consume the caramel off of a caramel apple while mixing in a few Brach’s cinnamon imperials for good measure (yummy!). \u00a0 Here’s a closeup of the booty:<\/p>\n

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Halloween Candy Picture Closeup – 1975-1976<\/p><\/div>\n

So, as I look across this image – what do I see?\u00a0 Well, I see Snickers (Fun-Size) and 3 Musketeers, a Hershey Bar, Milk Duds, Sugar Babies, Reese’s, Double Bubble gum, Dum Dum pops, and Brach’s Candy Corn boxes.\u00a0 Lots of awesome stuff.<\/p>\n

Having identified a number of the items in the photo, I wanted to see what I had in my collection to match it.\u00a0 Let’s take a look:<\/p>\n

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Holloway – Milk Duds Juniors – candy box – 1976<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mars – Snickers Fun Size – candy wrapper – late 1970’s<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mars – 3 Musketeers Fun Size – candy bar wrapper – 1977<\/p><\/div>\n

I searched for the Sugar Babies small box in the photo (which seems to have some white-and-red holiday graphics on the back) but the closest I could find was this standard version:<\/p>\n

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Nabisco – Sugar Babies – fun size candy box – 1970’s<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mars Milky Way – candy bar wrapper – late 1970’s<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hershey’s chocolate bar wrapper – late 1970’s<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hershey – Reese’s Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup candy wrapper – single – Oakdale CA – 1970’s<\/p><\/div>\n

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Reese’s Miniatures foil candy wrapper – late 1970’s<\/p><\/div>\n

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Spangler – Dum-Dums – Cherry lollipop candy wrapper – 1970’s 1980’s<\/p><\/div>\n

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Fleer Dubble Bubble and Donruss Super Bubble gum wrappers – 1970’s<\/p><\/div>\n

And finally, the Brach’s Candy Corn box – one of my fonder confectionery memories of the period:<\/p>\n

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Brach\u2019s \u2013 Candy Corn 1.2 oz candy box \u2013 late 1970’s<\/p><\/div>\n

Those are the pieces I could identify from this nearly 40-year-old snapshot and match up with pieces from my collection.\u00a0 Identifying candy items from old photos is a pretty fun thing to try to do, and a fun way to put things onto a collector’s want-list.\u00a0 It’s fun – but it’s not always easy.\u00a0\u00a0 Photos are often blurry and of course finding the things later on can prove to be a years’ long quest.<\/p>\n

Halloween really is the best holiday for a candy fan or a candy collector – so it’s somewhat bittersweet to find ourselves at the end.\u00a0 I just can’t believe it’s Halloween already.\u00a0 It’s been a tremendous amount of fun assembling these 31 posts this month, and I’m glad I could share them all with you.\u00a0 I hope you’ve enjoyed visiting and checking out my take on a Countdown To Halloween as much as I’ve enjoyed bringing it to you.<\/p>\n

And that’s everything for today’s post.\u00a0 I hope everyone out there has a happy and safe Halloween, and that you get lots of yummy candy with cool wrappers!<\/p>\n

See you next time!<\/p>\n

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Boo! — Brach’s Fright Bites foil candy wrappers – 1980’s<\/p><\/div>\n

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Today\u2019s post has been part of CollectingCandy.com\u2019s Countdown to Halloween.\u00a0 To check out other sites celebrating Halloween all month long, check out the official Halloween Countdown site.<\/a><\/p>\n

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