woolworth halloween

[van76]

I miss Woolworth. I used to be afraid to go into the Halloween sections near the halloween costumes and masks, especially ones from the Horror movies like Dracula and Frankenstein.

[BetamaxBabe]

A plastic bag and shitty mask passed for Halloween costumes during my childhood...and I loved them!

[KISSarmyGuy]

I just got that record.

[bigcarguy69]

I had the Six million $ man. And Darth vader inthe 70's I miss being a child so much sometimes. LIke now, when my knees and back hurt and the alarm clock goes off every morning.

[stomp919]

Lol girls always got ripped off on toys and stuff from the 60s 70s. We had Hot Wheels, GI Joe, Major Mattt Mason, Whizzers, SSPs, Thingmakers, Cox airplanes and Dunebuggys. What did girls have? Dolls and easy bake ovens! lmao

[niteholler]

i used to like to wear a micky mouse mask with a skeleton body.

[Julius121081]

Who's the woman in this commercial. She's really good.

[TheEricKnudsen]

AAAHHHHH!!!! Cheap plastic costumes from the 70's.....

memories....

[RetroToledo]

@TheEricKnudsen We went through all that!

[inkey2]

i was a ham sandwich for halloween

[spershall]

Sounds to Make You Shiver is AWESOME!!

[loneshewolf74]

My mom used to make my costumes by hand ... with the sewing patterns she probably bought at Woolco. She made really good ones, too like the Looney Tunes characters. Our neighbors used to "borrow" our used costumes for their kids and we'd never see them again lol.

[inkey2]

I am old enough to remember when F.W, Woolworth was the place to go and buy just about anything. School supplies, candy, comic books, models, sewing items, oil cloth, fabric, clothing patterns, Some of them even had a "lunch counter" where you could get your classic American lunches.....grilled cheese, coke and chips.... Hamburger, coke and fries etc. Everything totally sucks now

[The096757]

@inkey2

their lunch counter was good to eat at during the late 1970s while skipping school. i wish they would have changed to a dollar store and they might still be around today.

[IntellivisionDude]

I used to have the "Sounds to make you shiver" record.

[leapfrog64]

I still have the record somewhere in a box with other similar LP's. I think it was put out by Pickwick Records.

[fuhrman66]

We were too poor to afford them plastic costumes.. Once I tied a potato to my pecker and went out as a DICTATOR

[mrmoore1970]

@fuhrman66 LMAO hahahahahahahahahahaha

[otakukangaroo]

@fuhrman66 Badum Bing!

[SUPERDOOPERTUBER]

Ahh, the good ole days with those unsafe costumes where the eyes in the masks would impair vision and that lovely flammable material the costume was made of.

[RCA76]

I had the Spiderman mask!

[shibainuwalker]

To think I actually wore one of those costumes the mask sucked the elastic band would break and you would end up not wearing your mask the rest of the night. This commercial takes me back to the days when Woolworth was the place to shop for everything and it was cheap. In my neighborhood we had LH Martins and Star Value, They were the same but they didn't have a resteraunt.

[wrestlingchallenge]

From 1975 at the earliest.

[wrestlingchallenge]

Commercial is from 1975 or 1976.

[TVRetroQc]

I had the Hulk mask like that one...

[Judyfan]

This brings back great memories of growing up in the 60's and 70's.  Halloween was my favorite event and how I miss seeing all the costumes BOXED and lined up on the store shelves, which they don't do any longer.

Thanks for sharing this!

[fiwaszewski]

Thats the way should be, the way it was when we were kids in the 70's

~GS~GHOSTSeekers

[cheapcape]

@fiwaszewski Yeah Halloween in the 70's rocked! Everyone had a blast, unlike now.

[saml760]

brings back memories of the old Ben Cooper snd Collegeville halloween costumes they had when i was a kid,RIP Woolworth/Woolco i really miss you (sniff)!

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

SOUNDS TO MAKE YOU SHIVER has been re issued on VINYL. few years ago I got a copy at a used record store type place. take a look for yourself.

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

SOUNDS TO MAKE YOU SHIVER $1.89??? Imagine how many copies one could buy, then wait how many years later, then sell them.................also that halloween record gives you NIGHT MARES it is REALLY SCARRY and it is also on here as a video if you type in the name...

[The096757]

@TEMPmichaelhansen

i wish i would have bought that album. i'll buy it as long as it has the same 70s sounds.

[bumblebin]

That was a suprise - Sounds to Make You Shiver! One year my parents confiscated it because I kept playing it well after Halloween was over.

[pang5]

God, they had everything, didn't they? And they weren't pretentious in the least.

I've found the Walmart/Target places trying too hard to make one forget that they're essentially more expensive five&dimes.

We used to go to the lunch counter in Bethesda as a treat when we were kids...well, if we behaved. :)

[Julius121081]

Who is the woman that is in this commercial

[teletubetodd]

Wow, Woolworth/Woolco was the place to get our Halloween masks when we were kids! For today's generation, it's iParty. Not the same.

[jack2breeze]

I bought Sounds to make you shiver but at Thrifty`s.

[TroijanSkinhead]

i used to wear a pnut butter and coffee beard and go as a bum every year. till i upgraded to a ghost with pattern sheets

[Dablkwid0w2008]

I had Casper and Darth Vader.

And Halloween was good time at Woolco

You could get your costume, candy, the jack o lantern shaped candy bags, everything!

And of course since it was Halloween, they had the Christmas stuff stocked up too...sigh childhood memories!

[cjzzzzz]

what the hell is woolco? lol Never heard of that store.

[S1S1lver]

Woolco was Woolworths superstores!

[travis7310]

Woolco was a store similar to Kmart or Wal-Mart, but better. It was before my time, so I have nothing to say about them. I have no remembrance of them, but my mom tells me that she used to go there all the time, and could always find what she was looking for.

[sprtngrad1996]

that's really cool. i had a casper custome and then i was ace frehley in 1st grade.

[brawldude23]

We were lucky back in the day. the economy is shit now!

[pika23]

I had a big bird and a Annie costume from there.

[ampledestruction]

Priceless, those were the days...you wouldn't happen to have more halloween commercials from the old days would you??...

[mhirtes12]

They could take that "Bionic Woman" costume and repackage them as "Battlestar Galactica Cylon Model 6" costumes. LOL

[springloadedchicken]

omg NO! there's no god! argh! holly hobbie? what! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! (breath short... brow sweaty.. faints.. dead.) wow.. i remember those lame instant costumes... never again! argh! :D i do miss woolworth though... they left in the 80s where i grew up.

[TESCOFANgogo]

What is it then:?

[illuminatioracle]

sounds to make you shiver...

[CelesteK]

Why did they think that every girl in the world wanted to be Holly Hobbie for Halloween?

[axcz3]

@CelesteK The same reason they thought every boy wanted to be the 6 million dollar man LOL It was what was popular than.----

[CelesteK]

How long was this before Woolco and Woolworths went under?

[HardyGirl66]

Now see, that's what getting ready for Halloween was! I miss the days of Ben Cooper and Collegeville costumes, cheap candy, cheesy decorations, and spooky records!

[MMR38]

hahahahaha. I remember those old Halloween costumes... creepy.

[highlifehef]

your a fag...not above.. blvdofdeath...

[blvdofdeath]

reporting you to peta!

[whataburgerfan1]

@blvdofdeath How was this commercial abusive to animals....

[baritonebynight]

@highlifehef homophobia and ignorance not needed here

[DevSodDribble]

Oh my. I remember Woolco. I have fond memories of them having tons of action figures for the movie 'The Black Hole.' Little did I know, that movie was a bomb and that's why they had so many, even after every other store had sold out (or more likely thrown them away.) Ah memories. :D

[CelesteK]

I loved the Woolco at the Dufferin Mall in Toronto. I loved that they had an flat rolling escalator that lead down to the basement, or the dungeon as I liked to call it, where they had all of their toys. We got Gobots, Transformers, and My Little Pony. :)