#FlashbackFriday returns to some old haunts this week with some of our favorite Halloween photos from the Exchange Post archives and Exchange Associate Flickr. (For many more Halloween Flickr photos, click here.)
1974: In a monster mash-up of holiday seasons, Toyland shoppers at Fort Sam Houston had an extra treat during the last week of October: a Halloween spook house. After a tour through the spook house, customers were escorted to Toyland by the ghoul of their choice.
1984: McChord AFB Theater Supervisor Bill Hart and cashier Norman Cockrell weren’t afraid to dress as ghosts when the original “Ghostbusters” arrived at McChord.
1985: Alamo Region headquarters associates dress up for the facility’s first Halloween costume contest. The associate at right gets our vote, because sometimes computers can be really scary.
1990: A Fort Lewis sales associate presents a treat to Brig. Gen. John Hutton Jr. during Halloween festivities at Lewis’ Madigan Army Medical Center retail branch. Hutton, who was a heart specialist, was one of President Reagan’s White House physicians.
1992: To promote the sale of the video, “Beauty and the Beast,” stereo department sales associates Arlette Morris and Ray Ferreira, dressed in the title roles, greeted children in the store and at a special showing of the movie. Also pictured is custodial worker Willie Hughes.
2010: Manager Jim Knight, as the Mummy, passes out candy and samples of a new energy drink to Marines at Camp Ramadi, Iraq.
2014: Warrior Express team members at Bagram AB in Afghanistan have a superheroic Halloween.
2015: Headquarters associates get a lift during a Halloween celebration.
2020: During the COVID-19 pandemic, Exchanges came up with imaginative ways to make sure that military children could enjoy Halloween. Top: Ramstein Air Base associates, including one driving a vehicle while dressed as Santa Claus, participate in a Halloween parade hosted by the 86th Force Support Squadron. Bottom: The Davis-Monthan BX supports a community drive-thru trunk-or-treat. More than 400 children participated.
2020: Associates at the Fort Irwin Exchange designed a haunted ship and other displays that pleased shoppers.
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