Halloween Memories

[janet42]

I remember as a little girl going trick-or-treat with my mom or my brothers and sisters. Once going to a Halloween party with my best friend. We were both dressed like clowns.

What are yours?

[JamesG]

I remember when Halloween was alive around here.

It's been literally dead in recent years, not even the vandals are out. The majority of people in my neighborhood don't decorate.

There were a few times in recent years when my doorbell never rang once. That wouldn't have happened around here over 10 years ago.

As far as adults go, the NYC night-life scene is very much alive on Halloween night.

[Torgo]

I can remember going trick or treating and not having to have your parents worry about you.

There was an entire street that would have an outdoor Halloween party, all the adults would be dressed in costume handing out candy to all us kids as we walked down the middle of the street.

On our street down at the very end there was a house, when you knocked on the door the door would open and there was a person laying in the entry hall, on his chest was the bowl of candy, we'd then hear a voice say "You must grab the candy before he knows you're here" or something like that.

Also every October our Elementary School would have the Spookery- haunted house set up in one of the gyms, carnival games, cafeteria with all the treats. Also on every Friday night in October in the cafeteria they would show family friendly spooky movies.


We don't get any trick or treaters around here anymore(except the young couple next door and they will bring their little ones over), but the first year when my family and I moved here, my daughter was 5, and one of my sisters brought her kids and we took them around the neighborhood, a lot of the neighbors decked their houses out in decorations. One of the houses they had a coffin out in the drive way, and when we approached the coffin lid slowly opened and all the kids got scared and didn't want to go onto the driveway. Eventually they did and the guy gave them lots of candy.
Sadly no one decorates as much, no trick or treaters...the main reason being the lack of street lamps out here.

[MrCleveland]

I remember going around my neighborhood on Halloween and then going to my Grandpa's House and Trick-or-Treat there.

[tiredmike59]

My biggest halloween memory was when I took my little sister to a halloween party at her school,she was dressed as a gourd. We took a shortcut thru the woods and were attacked by a lunatic, lucky for us, our strange neighbor killed the lunatic with a knife. Oh.. I'm sorry, that was To kill a mockingbird.

[catlover79]

Here are a couple of pics of me on Halloween as a kidlet:

[Brad Russ]

i have many great Halloween memories, but my favorite was when we went to Church on Halloween. At first i cried, but my family had reservations on the Holiday, which have since lightened up. But yeah, i thought we would all get together, and sing Give Thanks all night (Great song btw) but instead, everyone was dressed up, we played games, had cake and pizza, and it was the best Halloween EVER!! Even had a pinata, that's how we got our candy. Much funner than trick or treating IMO.

[OH Nuts!]

I remember loving Halloween as a kid. But the candy is something I can live without (for health reasons). This Halloween, I'm going to watch a few eps from a Roseanne Halloween DVD I came across.

[janet42]

Thanks for sharing your memories guys and thanks Monika for sharing your pictures.

[born2late]

I loved Halloween when I was a kid. My sister and I would go around the neighborhood, sometimes with friends. The one that really stands out was when I think I was about 8. My sister and I ate a sandwich at the kitchen table, and it was already about dark. I saw a meteor through the window. Then we watched It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. After that it was off to fill our bags with goodies. That was back when you could still get homemade treats and not have to worry. Good memories of better times.

[Retro4Life]

We always had trick or treat after dark; nowadays it seems like most towns have it during daylight hours, for safety reasons.

We always trick or treated within our own town, now you have kids from other towns coming in and doing it, and that's OK but it takes away from the homey feeling of knowing everybody that you give out candy to (or take it from). My mom used to ask kids who they were under the mask and most of the time she'd know the parents, etc. You rarely if ever see that type of thing now.

I remember watching Charlie Brown's Halloween special each year, and walking in the town's Halloween parade to the fire station where they judged the costumes and gave out treats. They had a similar parade at the school.

One of my favorite recent Halloweens my friend and I worked at the local outdoor spook show, then afterwards went to a free midnight screening of the original Amityville Horror. Great fun.

[Brad Russ]

Another great Halloweem was the one where my brother got his halloween candy stolen by loser high schoolers. After what happened to my bro, i was too depressed to go trick or treating. My dad felt bad, and took us to Fred Meyer to buy as much candy as we wanted. Wow, quite emotional talking about it now. When we got home, our mailbox was full of candy from my bro's best friend, Jake Phillips. Had to have been over half of his candy. Amazing!!

[AB]

Growing up in a rural area, we had to be driven around to the houses to do our trick or treating. That made for some interesting moments trying to get in & out of the car with our costumes always getting in the way. But it was still fun. I also liked trading candy with my brother & sister because we all had different favorites. My sister loved those pixie sticks, I liked the Reese Cups & my brother liked the kit kat & nestle crunch bars.

[janet42]

Originally Posted by AB

I also liked trading candy with my brother & sister because we all had different favorites. My sister loved those pixie sticks, I liked the Reese Cups & my brother liked the kit kat & nestle crunch bars.

My favorites was Hershey's chocolate bars and reese cups.

[Schmoopie]

This isn't my earliest Halloween memory, but when my best friend and I were in junior high we were in the pep squad. We still liked to go out trick-or-treating in her neighborhood and we wore our pep squad uniforms and went as cheerleaders!

My church choir would always have a weekend retreat on Halloween weekend and we had the most awesome Halloween parties there!

Now my memories consist of going on a date night with my husband. We don't have kids and therefore don't like to stay home and hand out candy. But we do buy candy and leave it out for the kids in a bowl. Then we go out and go to the movies and dinner.