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Spirit Halloween Store 2010

September 9th, 2010 by John Wolfe

Spent a few hours in paradise a couple of days ago… well, paradise for a Halloween fanatic anyway. I’m in my mid-30s, yet I still get butterflies just walking through Spirit Halloween’s doors! As always, Chris (the owner of all three Albuquerque Spirit locations) and the employees were tremendously kind and helpful. I can’t say enough nice words about the people who work at my local Spirit shops.

Hope you enjoy the video tour. Just a heads up in case kids are watching alongside you: there’s some colorful language at the end of the vid, but I thought the clip was too funny to not include it (especially for a known potty mouth like me). :)

Music Source: “Darkly Everafter” from the album Grimm Tales by Nox Arcana

If you happen to be in the Albuquerque area and want to drop by Spirit Halloween, you’ll find them at 4610 Cutler Avenue, NE, (505) 872-2786 and at 1221 South Renaissance Blvd. NE (slated to open on Sept. 13th), (505) 872-2786.

On the west side, Spirit can be found at 10490 Coors Blvd. Bypass NW in the old Circuit City building — sorry, but I don’t have their phone number. If you go to the west side shop, ask for Harold (he’s the “Grim Greeter” in today’s vid entry), he’ll take good care of you.

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Old West Costume Party

May 2nd, 2010 by John Wolfe

In the process of scanning in some great old photos of Kelly for my ghost town video, I found this very cool Victorian era costume party photo. The shot was taken by Joseph E. Smith (the same man who took all the old Kelly pics) in 1887 at the Garcia Opera House in Socorro, New Mexico, which is about thirty miles from Kelly. I found this one in David R. Phillips book, “The West,” unfortunately, the caption didn’t say if the costume party was held in celebration of Halloween or not.

I had to cut the image down in this entry, but if you click on it, you’ll get the entire photo. While I’ve gotten to see a lot of old photos of costumes from back East, I think this is the first one I’ve ever seen from the Old West.