Classic Halloween traditions like dressing up and carving pumpkins have been around for a while. Here, check out how kids in decades past celebrated the year's spookiest day.
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| 07 Oct 1930 --- Children carve their own pumpkins for Halloween on Oct 7, 1930. (Underwood/Corbis) |
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| A group of children in Halloween outfits, Milwaukee, Wisc., circa 1930s. (Everett Collection) |
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| A young boy and girl crouch and bob for apples on Halloween, circa 1935. (Lionel Green—Getty Images) |
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| A Halloween party circa 1940 in New York City. The party was organized for members of Tots' Town, a daycare facility at the Children's Aid Society's James Center. (Keystone—Getty Images) |
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| A boy wears a knight costume, circa 1940s. (Michael Martin—Corbis) |
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| A young girl in a Halloween hat posing with a jack o' lantern, circa 1945. (Lambert / Getty Images) |
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| A young boy looks at a lit jack-o-lantern that he helped carve for Halloween, New York, 1949. (Rae Russel—Getty Images) |
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| A boy and a girl wear Halloween costumes for trick-or-treating in this vintage shot, circa 1950s. (Everett Collection) |
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| Full-length portrait of three children wearing Halloween costumes and holding trick-or-treat bags with their hands held out, circa 1955. (Lambert / Getty Images) |
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| Children in costumes arriving at a Halloween party, circa 1955. (Joe Clark, Hulton Archive / Getty Images) |
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| A group of children wearing Halloween costumes wait in a trick-or-treat line to receive apples from an officer at a police precinct, circa 1960. (American Stock / Getty Images) |
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| A little girl, wearing a clown costume for trick-or-treating, chooses a treat at Halloween, 1960s. (L. Willinger, FPG / Getty Images) |
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| Elementary school children at a Halloween festival in Anaheim, Calif., in October 1962. (AP) |
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| Elementary school children at the Halloween festival in Anaheim, Calif., in October 1962. (AP) |
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| A Halloween festival held in Anaheim, Ca., on Oct. 20, 1962. (AP) |
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| President John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office previewing Caroline and John Jr.'s Halloween costumes, October 1963. (Cecil Stoughton, Time & Life Pictures / Getty Images) |
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| Batman, the Green Hornet, Superman, and a host of other comic strip characters get geared up for Halloween in New Jersey, 1966. (Eddie Adams / AP Photo) |
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| Children parade through Central Park in New York City on Oct. 30, 1966. (Jacob Harris—AP) |
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| Singer Sonny Bono poses with a young Chaz Bono as the two wear matching costumes on Halloween in 1972. (CBS Photo Archive / Getty Images) |
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| First lady Betty Ford hands out cookies and candy to a few lucky trick-or-treaters on Halloween in 1974. (Everett Collection) |
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| First lady Betty Ford greets costumed school children on the White House South Lawn on Oct. 31, 1974 in Washington D.C. during a Halloween benefit for the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. (HENRY GRIFFIN—AP) |
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| Participants in the 10th annual Halloween Parade in New York, Oct. 31, 1983. (Ray Stubblebine—AP) |
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| Second-graders pick their pumpkins during a class outing Oct. 19, 1984, at a farm next to their school near Doylestown, PA. (George Widman—AP) |
