This Shorpy picture takes me back

to 1964 - the kid on the left has what I think is a Digger mask:

Digger was a character from the Hawk plastic model line of Weird-Ohs.

https://www.shorpy.com/node/27843

Here it is on the LOC site:

source: https://www.loc.gov/item/2021636510/

I built that kit but never saw such a mask !  They had stuff in New York that could only be imagined in Milwaukee.  Also, is that a cab in the background taking these kids Trick-or-Treating  ?  In 1964 Wisconsin you walked !

source: https://www.scalemates.com/kits/hawk-530-100-digger-way-out-dragster--1235633

More on Digger and the Weird-ohs:

history: https://www.oldmodelkits.com/blog/plastic-model-kit-history/history-of-the-hawk-weird-ohs-plastic-model-kits/

Digger model: https://modelingmadness.com/review/misc/figures/gooddigger.htm

The photographer, Angelo Rizzuto is famous for his pictures of New York:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Rizzuto

Mentioned him previously:

https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2023/06/angelo-rizzuto-photographer.html

Jean Shepherd once made an observation to the effect that our lives are marked by holidays.  Certainly in our house (when photographic film and developing was an expense) holidays were an excuse to get out the camera and capture a glimpse of the family.

 

Update with the Jean Shepherd quote: "Americans measure their lives by holidays.  Christmas, Easter, birthdays, Thanksgiving, the Fourth of July - like mileposts in the picket fence of the years that stretches on and on and on through our lives.  But those holidays when you are young, they are the sweetest of all.  You remember them forever."

The ending of The Great American Fourth Of July and Other Disasters (1982) 

 source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zow7fro-WGE 

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm