Every license plate has a story. And around Halloween, some stories can be scarier to imagine than others.
Think about the roads and cars that helped set the scene for some of Alfred Hitchcock’s most memorable films—a Arizona plate like one you might imagine on the road in Psycho, a vintage California plate reminiscent of Vertigo, or a classic plate from the era of The Birds. Hitchcock knew that sometimes an ordinary car, a lonely highway, or an unexpected journey could be the beginning of a very unsettling story.
We may never know where an old plate traveled or what it witnessed along the way—and that’s part of what makes collecting them so interesting. So this Halloween, dig into the Great American Plates collection and uncover a piece of the past for yourself.
Happy Halloween from Great American Plates!
