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Mrs. Nancy Uhlharn helps her daughter Karie, 2, adjust her boots as her other daughter, Laurie, 4, watches during children's Halloween trick-or-treat rounds Tuesday night, Oct. 31, 1972. Many children in the Denver area were out for the traditional event and didn't let a little snow get in their way.

Roger Mathewson, dressed as Dracula, lifts the lid of his coffin to offer treats in the "graveyard" or home of Dracula's Vampire girlfriend, Donna Brown. Miss Brown escorted trick-or-treaters to homemade casket in middle of the cemetery (the lawn) where they had to knock on the coffin, whereupon lid opened and Dracula distributed treats to the children. Some youngster were scared, others were thrilled and one little girl cried. The yard was black light and the played recorded sounds of dogs howling, wind blowing and screams. The dogs drove Miss Brown's cat, Stanley into house, under bed, and he missed Halloween celebration.

The youngsters of Children's World educational day center in Golden look out the window as facility Director Jeri Estes carries a large Jack O' Lantern in a warm ski jacket on Oct. 31, 1979.

Tristan Roybal, age 4, dressed As a stegosaurus. sits in a window with a pumpkin, at Auraria Child Care center, on Oct. 31, 1989.

Mini-sized witches, goblins and other assorted characters got an early taste of Halloween fun at the Englewood-Littleton-Sheridan preschool classes that meet at Engle-wood United Methodist Church, on Oct. 21, 1970. Dragon Shannon Graham, left, arrived in costume with her tail dragging. Watching are classmates Staci Haines; Gloria Campbell, a cat; Bobbie Bickerston, a clown; Rae Ann Jennings, a bunny; Joyce Anderson, a princess; Tanya Henderson, the witch standing on the right, and Julie Berry. Clapping her hand in delight is Julie Berry, left, while wondering about it all is Joyce Anderson, below. The Indian at the right is John Foyle.

Andrea Barry is only 3 months old, but it's obvious that she knows enough to look for a place to hide from the witches, goblins and other spooks who hold sway on Halloween. When she's a little older, she'll understand that Halloween isn't so bad after all. Oct. 30, 1967.

Members of Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity at the University of Denver threw a Halloween party Saturday afternoon for about 6o youngsters from the Children's Asthmatic Research Institute and Hospital (CARIH). Here children cluster around fraternity member Money Seigal, dressed as a clown. Children were treated a cartoons, goodies and a magic show by fraternity members and their girl friends. Area business firms donated toys, treats. Oct. 30, 1970.

OCT 30 1972 - Mother Nature Pulls A Trick On Youngsters Two youngsters brave the heavy snow Tuesday night to make their Halloween trick-or-treat rounds in south Lakewood. The National Weather Service Reported about 11 inches of snow fell on Denver area by 7 a. m. Wednesday. And the trick-or-treaters may have figured most of it fell while they were on traditional Halloween rounds. Credit: Denver Post (Denver Post via Getty Images)

Children go through the coffin room at the Haunted Castle, on Oct 22, 1976.

Visitors to Denver Jaycees-sponsored Halloween house may be greeted by the likes of Darth Vader (Kirk Crow) and a "death figure" (Cindy Kuenning), above right. Oct. 24, 1977.

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The Haunted Castle, at E. Iliff Ave. and S. Clarkson St., is open from 6:30 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday and 6:30 to 10:30 p. m. other nights through Halloween. Oct. 24, 1977.

Dracula Lamm Bares His teeth and shows his claws at Halloween Party; The reaction of kids was mixed, the young cowboy at the right kept pulling his hat over his face. Oct. 30, 1977.

A "Trick" Storm treats the city to snowfall, on Oct. 31,1977. A couple of young men race through downtown Denver street at 16th St. and Glenarm Place during Halloween storm that dropped an official three inches of snow in the city.

Sheiks and watches help fundraise for March of Dimes to help the Colorado Medical Center fight birth defects, at The Lift, on Oct. 31, 1928.

Andy Laird, 11, in front of his family's home extraordinary set up for Halloween, on Oct. 31 1978.

The wicked witch of the west, Brianna Smith, 4, stirs some wicked brew (pudding) as another member of the party watches intently, on Oct. 24 1983.

Park Will Elementary Halloween, on Oct. 18, 1986.

Lon Davis and his son, Lonnie, Jr. work on the Halloween scene in front of their house in Arvada, on Oct. 14, 1987.

Susan Coombs, third grade pupil, and Robert Bate, fourth grade, peer from the safety and shelter of a school corridor at witch who refused to be identified.

Pam, 8, left, Becky, 10 and Dick Foss, 6, "trick or treat" and raise funds for CROP (Christian Rural Overseas Program) in Denver, on Oct. 22, 1964.

Halloween in Denver, 1987.

A Boulder police officer leads a beer can-festooned Halloween reveler off the Downtown Boulder Mall after the man climbed to the top of a small tree on the mall, on Oct. 21, 1987.