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A Real Treat: See Young Trick-or-Treaters in Downtown Charleston in 1945

A Real Treat: See Young Trick-or-Treaters in Downtown Charleston in 1945
October 2026
WRITER: 
Charleston Magazine Staff
PHOTOGRAPHER: 
Courtesy of the South Carolina Historical Society

The image shows students from the McInnes Kindergarten and Nursery School



Children from the McInnes Kindergarten and Nursery School, opened in 1927 at 34 Chalmers Street, parade through the intersection of Broad and Meeting streets in their Halloween costumes—from clowns and cows to Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck—in this circa-1945 image.