There's nothing like an ancient heathen ritual for scaring up some profits! Halloween, while not as commercially inspiring a holiday as Christmas, definitely seems to rank higher than St. Patrick's Day, and at least as high as Valentine's Day on the Shameless Overuse of Archetypal Seasonal Imagery for Marketing Purposes Scale. (Yes, the Shameless Overuse of Archetypal Seasonal Imagery for Marketing Purposes Scale is an actual recognized standard of measurement.)

Anyway, here are some fun vintage ads. My favorite is the Gerber ad, because it really speaks to me.

:)

—Lisa