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Children celebrate at a Halloween party in New York City circa 1940.Keystone—Getty Images
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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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Blindfolded children search for a candle to try to blow it out in an old Halloween tradition circa 1900s.Bettmann—Corbis
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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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A boy wears a knight costume.Michael Martin—Corbis
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A Halloween festival held in Anaheim, Ca., on Oct. 20, 1962.AP
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Children parade through Central Park in New York City on Oct. 30, 1966.Jacob Harris—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
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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 boy carves his pumpkin for Halloween circa 1900s.Underwood/Corbis
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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
Classic Halloween traditions like dressing up and carving pumpkins have been around for a while — much longer than sexy lobster costumes and deep-fried pumpkin space lattes. Here, check out how kids and adults in decades past celebrated the year’s spookiest day.
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