My Favorite Postcards

Happy Halloween
Sesame WorkShop

The featured Sesame Street muppets are:
Zoe, Cookie Monster, Big Bird, Elmo, Bert, and Ernie.

This postcard was postmarked from Japan in 2017.

Tim Burton's
The Nightmare Before Christmas

This postcard is unused.

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The Nightmare Before Christmas, released on October 29, 1993, is a stop-motion animated dark fantasy musical film directed by Henry Selick, and produced and conceived by Tim Burton. It tells the story of Jack Skellington, a resident from "Halloween Town" who stumbles through a portal to "Christmas Town" and decides to celebrate the holiday, with some dastardly and comical consequences.

Danny Elfman wrote the songs and score, and provided the singing voice of Jack. 

Get outta here.

Happy Halloween

This postcard features a witch cooking up a spell (or soup :) and many cats.  The card is handmade by Lynne Appel, then printed.

May your Hallowe’en be merry

Candle smoke high,
Your fortune’s near by -
Candle smoke low,
It’s a long way to go.

This postcard is postmarked in 1924 with a one cent stamp.  The publisher is Wolf and the artist is Ellen Clapsaddle.  This card just sold not to long ago on eBay for 85.00. (I paid 10.00 for mine quite a while ago)

Happy Halloween!

This 'Cartes d'Art' Postcard is from Paris, France, but mailed within the USA in 2013.

The spider, lizard with skull, owl, bats, pumpkin, cat,  witches brew and witch are all stickers!

 Halloween

Oh my! Do you s'pose that's really him?

Raphael Tuck and Sons "The Halloween" series of Post Cards No. 181

postmarked in 1911 with a one cent stamp

"Hallowe'en"

This is what I am doing today, getting ready for tomorrow!

This is vintage postcard, but I can't read the date it was mailed.  The stamp is from 1902.

 Halloween
(Men dancing with vegetable ladies)

The sender writes:
Reached home all OK.  I got the light lit after I burnt up nearly a box of matches.

postmarked in 1911 with a one cent 'Franklin' stamp

Merry Halloween

postmarked in 1911 with a one cent 'Franklin' stamp

Happy Hallowe'en

Guess Halloween is not so bad
Cause most folks seem mighty glad
And all fix up in this or that,
WIth funny face and funny hat.

Some look like ghosts, some like dogs
Some like witches, some like frogs,
And Mickey Mouse is on the scene
Or Snow White and the lovely Queen,

Then Ferdinand will prance about
While every one will dance and shout.
Pop-eye the sailor will be on hand
With Olive Oyle at his command,

All  year long we wouldn't dare,
To make our neighbors stop and stare.
But this one night is a night of fun
And the only night it can be done.

So get your face and funny hat
And some of this and some of that,
And be a clown just for tonite,
For after all it is quite right
To have your fun and have it clean
For this is Happy Halloween.

By Juanita Ward

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This post is linked on 'The Best Hearts Are Crunchy' - another blog worth checking out  :D

With Best Wishes for Halloween

postmarked in 1906 with a one cent stamp
the sender writes:

Dear Lillian - You are a dandy to visit Jackson and not come and see me.  You better hadn't do it again or I will come over and spank you.

With Love,
Maud

(for the record, I wouldn't want to go visit anyone either who threatens to spank me!)

Happy Hallowe'en!!!

Fashion and costume design by Hilde Heyvaert

This photo postcard was taken in Disneyland Paris and made into a postcard advertising her clothing line.

postmarked with a Belgie-Belgique (Belgium) 'tram' stamp in 2008

Halloween

Raphael Tuck and Sons, Halloween Postcards Series No. 183

postmarked in 1912 with a one cent 'Franklin' stamp

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Bobbing for apples is a game often played in connection with Halloween. The game is played by filling a tub or a large basin with water and putting apples in the water. Because apples are less dense than water, they will float at the surface. Players then try to catch one with their teeth.

 A more sanitary variation of the game exists, with the apples hung on string, rather than in a bowl of water.

Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida
with Freddy, Jason and Leatherface.

Come back for the Final Weekend and Enjoy Exclusive Passholder Pricing!

Postmarked in 2007 with Presorted machine stamp

From their website:
ALL NEW FOR 2007

8 ALL NEW TERRIFYING HAUNTED HOUSES
Dare to experience the most FRIGHTENING haunted houses ever created for Halloween Horror Nights based on the popular films Friday The 13th, A Nightmare On Elm Street, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Thing, Dead Silence and some of the most CHILLING houses from horror nights past.

4 ALL NEW INCREDIBLE SHOWS
Including the ever popular Bill & Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure - and hundreds of horrific "scare-actors."

MIDWAY OF THE BIZARRE
Ringmaster Jack transforms the streets of Halloween Horror Nights into a spine-tingling, multi-sensory spectacle! See such sinister sideshows as the Rat Lady, the Chainsaw Drill Team, Motormaniacs, Killer Carnies, and the Troupe Macabre!