Halloween at JPL
Halloween is important to JPL's history - the very first rocket tests by JPL's founders were performed in the Arroyo Seco on October 31, 1936. Throughout the years, celebrating our birthday on Lab has included activities like masquerade dances, costume contests, and more recently a pumpkin carving contest. Below we have collected a small sample of Halloween festivities throughout the years.
A cleared PowerPoint version of this exhibit is available on PubLib.
October 2020, CL#20-4851
Halloween Masquerade Dances, 1950s
P-360D, 1954-10-22
The first Halloween "Masquerade Dance" was held in 1954 at the Palms Ballroom in Glendora, CA.
Halloween Masquerade Dances, 1950s
P-357C, 1954-10-22
Halloween Masquerade Dances, 1950s
P-362D, 1954-10-22
Halloween Masquerade Dances, 1950s
P-557A, 1955-10-22
6K Fuel Tank 2 ‘Lou Arthur'
This is not Halloween, but a bonus!
P-1399A, 1960-03-01
6K Fuel Tank 2 ‘Lou Arthur
This is not Halloween, but a bonus!
P-1399B, 1960-03-01
Halloween around the Lab, 1980s
P-26435, 1983-10-31
Halloween around the Lab, 1980s
P-27912, 1983-10-31
Ranger Project Manager, Harris M. Schurmeier, posing with Ranger II as a wizard with his bunny-suited ghost friends on Halloween
352-3855Bc, 1960s
MER Pumpkin, 2002
Courtesy of JPL Photolab
Costume Contest, 2008
Courtesy of JPL Photolab
Costume Contest, 2008
Courtesy of JPL Photolab
Costume Contest, 2016
Courtesy of JPL Photolab
Costume Contest, 2016
Courtesy of JPL Photolab
Pumpkin Carving Contest, 2016
Courtesy of JPL Photolab
Pumpkin Carving Contest, 2018
Courtesy of JPL Photolab
Pumpkin Carving Contest, 2018
Courtesy of JPL Photolab
Pumpkin Carving Contest, 2018
Courtesy of JPL Photolab
Pumpkin Carving Contest, 2019
Courtesy of JPL Photolab
Costume Contest, 2019
Courtesy of JPL Photolab
Costume Contest, 2019
Courtesy of JPL Photolab
Costume Contest, 2019
Courtesy of JPL Photolab
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