Halloween 2024: One tradition got banned across America. We should bring it back.
SlateYou hear the Naked Pumpkin Run before you see it. It’s hard to trace the exact origins of Boulder’s Naked Pumpkin Run, though Wikipedia claims that it began with an “unsuccessful 1974 Guinness World Record attempt by University of Colorado at Boulder students.” Sure! But there’s no record of a naked pumpkin run in Guinness’ online archives, nor is there any public documentation of which record the students were trying to break, though it’s worth noting that 1974 was dubbed the year of a collegiate streaking outbreak—an “epidermis epidemic” the likes of which the country had never seen. “And this incredible mob of naked pumpkin runners just comes jogging slowly down the street.” As for her clients: “Their eyes were like two fried eggs.” Historically, the Naked Pumpkin Run was far from Boulder’s only nude gathering. Per Garnett, the Pumpkin Run was “an extension of a streaking culture that was pretty active in Boulder in the ’70s and ’80s.” “Everybody thought it was harmless and silly,” he told me.
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