Halloween articles in the Dallas Morning News are a bit of a buzz kill. The articles are lamenting the fact that candles, paper and fabrics have all been requisitioned for the war effort but they also sternly warn boys and girls to be on their very best behavior. Due to the lack of masks and other Halloween accoutrements, there were a lot of little ‘hobos’ asking for handouts. Other popular costumes, if you could obtain the materials, were cowboys, ‘Indians’, and witches. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves had come out in 1937 and the Wizard of Oz came out in 1939.
Besides trick-or-treating, house parties were very popular. Bobbing for apples and other games would be played within private homes. These homes would often be decorated with hay bales and corn sheaves.
If you want to be terrified, book a history tour with us. Plenty of gruesome deaths and destroyed architecture! ha.
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