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| Photo: Universal Pictures, 1948. |
Back in the 1960s, one Halloween tradition was to watch Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).
KNXT-Channel 2 (now known as KCBS) in Los Angeles used to have an afternoon movie program called "The Early Show." It came on somewhere around 3:00 or 4:00 PM.
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| Above, Bud and Lou meet Frankenstein at the 2011 Monsterpalooza Museum. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Every Halloween, "The Early Show" played Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. It was the perfect movie to get kids in the Halloween spirit before heading out for trick or treating after dinner.
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| Above, the "Wizard of Oz" characters didn't fare too well at this Tarzana residence. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Some people in the neighborhood used to go all-out on Halloween and set up mini-haunted houses with monsters, spider webs and blacklights (these were the days before blacklight posters were in vogue in the late 1960s).
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| Above, someone met a dead end in Tarzana. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Today, very few kids (in comparison to the numbers who went out when I was a kid) go out for trick or treating. It is just too risky these days with real-life monsters out there.
So, in keeping with the old tradition, I'll be watching Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein today.
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