HALLOWEEN ON THE SUBWAY (1922)
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Those of you who live in New York might have seen costumers on the subway during your commute today.
It is less likely, though, that you saw straphangers bobbing for apples.
At the time of this cartoon’s publication in the October 29th, 1922 edition of the New York Tribune, the subway was a mere 18-year-old. And the term “straphanger” was not much older – it derived from the (at first leather, and later metal) straps which hung from the ceiling of a street or subway car.
“Why not play ‘bite the apple’ in the subway Halloween?”, shows two New Yorkers, a “dudish” man and an “artsy” woman (two typical subway riders of the day?) “bobbing” for apples from those straps.
When was the last time you played this game???
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