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.
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