Radio is a source for Halloween costume ideas.
What, you say?Radio? Perhaps not talk radio as we know it today, unless you want to go your party as Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck; but rather radio of old.
In the golden era of radio, one had to imagine what the characters on their favorite radio shows looked like to include their clothing.
The hardest costume from radio days was Lamont Cranston who was also known as 'The Shadow', an invisible man.
It's really hard to duplicate invisible, but most everything else can be.
'Fibber McGee and Molly', 'The Great Gildersleeve', 'Life of Riley, the 'Fanny Brice Show' and as a very young man; nay, a young lad, I wasmore interested in the likes of 'Orphan Annie', 'Captain Midnight', 'Bobby Benson and the b Bar B Ranch', 'Sergeant Preston of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police', 'Sky King', and 'Sam Spade' among others.
There was a ventriloquist, if you can believe it, as well.
Edgar Bergen fooled a lot of people with his lip synching for 'Charlie McCarthy' and 'Mortimer Snerd' (a pair of ventriloquist figures).
Who are these characters, and what were these shows about? Some of these shows and characters eventually transferred over to the then 'new' medium, television.
Ask your grandmother or grandfather, or an old person if you want to follow this path.
And Google works quite well for researching as well.
Of course, the obvious question is why wear a Halloween costume that nobody has ever heard of, nor knows what it are supposed to look like? Darned if I know.
What, you say?Radio? Perhaps not talk radio as we know it today, unless you want to go your party as Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck; but rather radio of old.
In the golden era of radio, one had to imagine what the characters on their favorite radio shows looked like to include their clothing.
The hardest costume from radio days was Lamont Cranston who was also known as 'The Shadow', an invisible man.
It's really hard to duplicate invisible, but most everything else can be.
'Fibber McGee and Molly', 'The Great Gildersleeve', 'Life of Riley, the 'Fanny Brice Show' and as a very young man; nay, a young lad, I wasmore interested in the likes of 'Orphan Annie', 'Captain Midnight', 'Bobby Benson and the b Bar B Ranch', 'Sergeant Preston of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police', 'Sky King', and 'Sam Spade' among others.
There was a ventriloquist, if you can believe it, as well.
Edgar Bergen fooled a lot of people with his lip synching for 'Charlie McCarthy' and 'Mortimer Snerd' (a pair of ventriloquist figures).
Who are these characters, and what were these shows about? Some of these shows and characters eventually transferred over to the then 'new' medium, television.
Ask your grandmother or grandfather, or an old person if you want to follow this path.
And Google works quite well for researching as well.
Of course, the obvious question is why wear a Halloween costume that nobody has ever heard of, nor knows what it are supposed to look like? Darned if I know.
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