Today I’m going to step sideways a bit, and rather than looking at a specific piece of Halloween packaging or marketing, I’m going to share a series of photos of Halloween retail store displays in 1969. I’m posting this to serve as a fun little peek into Halloween’s past.
Before I get to the images, I will point out that these came from a pair of articles on merchandising in a candy trade magazine. Due to the nature of the medium and the era, the quality on these isn’t so great. Even so, I was able to enhance them a bit, and I hope you enjoy the glimpse they provide into another Halloween era.
At this point, I’m going to let the images speak for themselves, so here they are:
1969 Halloween Store Displays 1
1969 Halloween Store Displays 2
1969 Halloween Store Displays 3
1969 Halloween Store Displays 4
1969 Halloween Store Displays 5
1969 Halloween Store Displays 6
1969 Halloween Store Displays 7
1969 Halloween Store Displays 8
1969 Halloween Store Displays 9
1969 Halloween Store Displays 10
1969 Halloween Store Displays 11
And that’s all of them. I hope you enjoyed this glimpse into Halloween’s past. See you next time!
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Wow.
Is it just me or does the volume of candy seem to be WAY more than today.
Sure, there’s certainly not a shortage of candy in most grocery stores and chains, so it must be the way it’s stacked or something that makes it look so abundant.
Nice post!
Steve,
That’s a keen observation. I wonder if it wasn’t truly more abundant.
It gets me speculating, and I’m only speculating here, but I wonder if any of these was true, and possibly led to the huge displays in question:
* Back in the 1960′s, they may have only stocked Halloween candy for a few weeks, rather than two months, so it may have been a much more intense, short-term buying period.
* With fewer outlets back in 1969 to buy things, the stores that were out there needed to stock big.
* Another possibility is simply that these photos are from a merchandising article, so it may have been a case of going to stores that had notoriously big setups, or they built big knowing that a photographer from a magazine was coming.
But I really think it may be that retailers and jobbers built more big displays back then. You don’t find setups like you used to, but you see them more and more in vintage grocery store photos. It’s cool to be able to find images like this.
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