Park Slope Halloween 2004
Pictures taken around Park Slope (Brooklyn) on Halloween Night 2004. Includes the 19th Annual Park Slope Halloween Parade.
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1: 5:18 PM. Serving a zombie head on a table.
2: 6:25 PM. A neighbor's house.
3: 6:26 PM. A neighbor's stoop with a cowboy and wizard.
4: 6:29 PM. Teenagers spraying shaving cream around.
5: 6:42 PM. A wizard and a witch?
6: 6:46 PM. Shrek mask.
7: 6:46 PM. Marty Markowitz. He was mayor of Brooklyn at this time. He considered himself to be Mr. Brooklyn.
8: 6:47 PM. Marty Markowitz and others. Superman and an angel.
9: 6:48 PM. Man in the moon.
10: 6:48 PM. The Beatles.
11: 6:49 PM. A mixed group.
12: 6:50 PM. A forest.
13: 6:51 PM. A kangaroo, zombie mask, a nun, and a Ghostface mask from
Scream.
14: 6:51 PM. Nutcracker construction with Clara.
15: 6:53 PM. George Harrison. A Beatles' Sargeant Pepper Band costume from Creative Costuming. Nehru tuxedo style.
16: 6:54 PM. An arc construction filled with a lot of kids.
17: 6:56 PM. A skeleton and the Invisible Man, or a mummy.
18: 6:56 PM. A NYC yellow cab taxi construction, with two infants.
19: 6:58 PM. An inflatable nurse and inflatable Sumo wrestler.
20: 6:58 PM. Group.
21: 7:00 PM. Mission Accomplished airplane construction. This was President Bush's aircraft carrier speech and banner.
22: 7:01 PM. Witch with axe, construction of ? and mad scientist.
23: 7:02 PM. Skeleton or ghost bride. Also cemetery bride.
24: 7:02 PM. A vampire or Dracula, a witch and a knight.
25: 7:02 PM. An ice-capped volcano construction. With young girl in color coordinated outfit.
26: 7:03 PM. Iron Man and person in a Tyvek hazmat suit and gas mask.
27: 7:04 PM. Little frog costume.
28: 7:05 PM. From Hawaii with an inflated palm tree. Their outfits include leis, hula skirts, and floral headbands, suggesting they are attending a luau or similar tropical-themed party.
29: 7:06 PM. A witch's hat on the middle person.
30: 7:07 PM. Constructions: coffee mug, New York Post front page with Kerry winning by a landslide, a candy store.
31: 7:08 PM. Brooklyn Parents for Peace collecting for UNICEF. Orange plastic fence used to corral demonstrators. And ?
32: 7:09 PM. From Dragnet: Jack Webb with his German Shepherd dog, Ginger.
33: 7:10 PM. Peacock dress.
34: 7:10 PM. Witches and a fishing net construction.
35: 7:13 PM. Red and blue crayons. One for each political party.
36: 7:13 PM. Three suffragettes for Kerry.
37: 7:14 PM. A grim reaper carrying a just harvested head.
38: 7:15 PM. ?
39: 7:16 PM. A large Frankenstein construction with his bride.
40: 7:17 PM. ?
41: 7:17 PM. A monkey with an accordion (a musical toy) and a monkey sheriff playing to a crowd.
42: 7:19 PM. Kids spraying shaving cream.
43: 7:21 PM. Sock man with companion.
44: 7:22 PM. Half-pint Chinese takeout containers, and empty toilet paper rolls simulating egg rolls.
45: 7:24 PM. Two Billionaires for Bush, with one carrying a "Leave No Billionaires Behind" sign, a parody of the "No Child Left Behind Act."
46: 7:26 PM.
The Wizard of Oz family: Wicked Witch of the West, Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion.
47: 7:28 PM. Family of striped Bumblebees.
48: 7:29 PM. Pencils construction.
49: 7:30 PM.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland characters: Mad Hatter, Card Soldiers, White Rabbit with Mad Hatter's clock, and Alice.
50: 7:30 PM.
51: 7:33 PM. Statue of Liberty with a tourist wearing a Hawaiian shirt with a lei.
52: 7:35 PM. Orange dinosaur and Kumamon Black Bear construction.
53: 7:36 PM. People waiting for the parade to arrive.
54: 7:36 PM. People waiting for the parade to arrive.
55: 7:38 PM. The beginning of the parade.
56: 7:38 PM. On inline skates.
57: 7:38 PM. On inline skates.
58: 7:40 PM. Headless horseman.
59: 7:40 PM. Banner from Kensington Stables. Now closed. Brooklyn Equine (Be) is now in the Prospect Park Stable. Behind are two women in kimonos with umbrellas.
60: 7:41 PM. A band.
61: 7:41 PM. The band. In front, a woman in a leopard-print costume with ram horns.
62: 7:41 PM. Shrek leading a group.
63: 7:41 PM. Ram horns.
64: 7:42 PM. Superman and Park Slope Civic Council banner.
65: 7:43 PM. Washing machine and dryer constructions.
66: 7:43 PM. Box construction with two young girls.
67: 7:44 PM. Moneky playing and accordion. A takeoff on a toy.
68: 7:45 PM. An airplane construction.
69: 7:46 PM. Mrs. Potts Beauty & the Beast, and Belle.
70: 7:46 PM. Dilbert.
71: 7:47 PM. A cuckoo clock construction.
72: 7:48 PM. A downhill racing kart construction. Or soapbox car.
73: 7:49 PM. Harry Potter characters: Hermione Granger and Harry Potter.
74: 7:49 PM. A shark eating a person.
75: 7:50 PM. The Logan Express steam engine construction with two engineers riding the train. A takeoff on the book Logan on the North Pole Express.
76: 7:50 PM. North Fork Bank wants to fork up our neighborhood, with a rowhouse construction.
North Fork Bank was acquired by Capital One in 2008.
77: 7:50 PM. Thomas the Tank Train construction.
78: 7:51 PM. AOL Instant Messenger construction.
79: 7:51 PM. Coca-Cola can construction.
80: 7:51 PM. A knight ready for joisting.
81: 7:52 PM. A fire engine construction.
82: 7:52 PM. From
The Wizard of Oz: Tin Soldier and Wicked Witch of the West.
83: 7:53 PM. A Predator costume from the movie
Predator.
84: 7:53 PM. Accordian and saxophone musicians.
85: 7:53 PM. Deep sea divers with octopuses.
86: 7:54 PM. A horse costume.
87: 7:55 PM. Constructions: Thomas the Tank Engine train, with Diesel 10, an antagonist in the
Thomas & Friends franchise. On left is Sir Topham Hatt, also known as the Fat Controller, who is the manager of the railway.
88: 7:55 PM. A curtained window.
89: 7:56 PM.
90: 7:57 PM. A power ranger, or red ranger.
91: 7:59 PM. He could be a wizard. Are the wine glasses part of a theme?
92: 8:01 PM. Egyptian pharaoh king headpiece. A king or prince. And princesses.
93: 8:02 PM. A werewolf.
94: 8:06 PM. Zebra and dog wearing tiger costume.
95: 8:10 PM. ?
96: 8:10 PM. Witch and emergency room doctor devil.
97: 8:11 PM. A child being "treated" in an ambulance.
98: 8:12 PM. The Three Fingers (Road to Horror)? Crypt keeper?
99: 8:12 PM. Skeleton and ?
100: 8:13 PM. Yellow Dog Democrat.
101: 8:14 PM. Wounded soldier with super soaker water gun.
102: 8:14 PM. Family: in the middle a lion and a witch.
103: 8:15 PM. Possibly a Billionaire for Bush.
104: 8:16 PM. Alfred E Neuman. He's not warrying about the presidential election in two days.
105: 8:16 PM. Egyptian pharaoh and pschent, or "Double Crown."
106: 8:17 PM. A plastic fence with No W sign. (No George W. Bush.) These fences are used to corral protesters.
107: 8:19 PM. An angel dog.
108: 8:20 PM. Dressed for a Día de los Muertos or Day of the Dead celebration.
109: 8:20 PM. Spiderman and villain Doctor Octopus. At left is Catwoman from Batman.
110: 8:21 PM. A car construction.
111: 8:22 PM.
112: 8:23 PM.
The Wizard of Oz characters: Dorothy, Glinda - Good Witch of the North, Wicked Witch of the West, and Cowardly Lion.
113: 8:23 PM. A princess dog eating a bone. Her husband has her on a leash. Spiderman at the right.
114: 8:26 PM. Little Batman.
115: 8:26 PM. Others? and armored knight.
116: 8:30 PM. Pumpkin head.
117: 8:33 PM. Jack-o'-lanterns on a neighbor's stoop.
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