tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post536034900393519572..comments2024-03-28T18:21:09.285-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: Monday Memories: HalloweenJames Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-41178591912306819892018-10-31T22:26:06.348-05:002018-10-31T22:26:06.348-05:00Thanks, John. It's nice to know that such thin...Thanks, John. It's nice to know that such things are still going on.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-28084952515203284982018-10-31T17:46:50.834-05:002018-10-31T17:46:50.834-05:00Hey James, thanks for another great post redolent ...Hey James, thanks for another great post redolent of the past.<br /><br />Just wanted to write that Halloween night is barely getting started here and it's already packed with costumed little trick or treaters. <br />I live in a classic 1950's Ozzie and Harriet style subdivision and a second baby boom must gone off as I've got the biggest onslaught of masked toddlers and middle schoolers stumbling to my door that I've seen since I moved in back in 1992. <br /><br />So at least some of today's kids are making memories not all that different than the ones we made for ourselves back in the misty days of yore. <br /><br />John Hocking<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-5275344601291074752018-10-29T08:44:30.278-05:002018-10-29T08:44:30.278-05:00Where we live now, almost all the stores and resta...Where we live now, almost all the stores and restaurants - even the Chinese take out places - keep buckets of candy and the parents bring in the little kids after school in the afternoon. There is also a fun project where all the local schools have kids make Halloween pictures, and then recreate them on the windows of the supermarkets and other stores that volunteer to have them, under supervision of course. There is a real neighborhood feel. As for other trick or treating, we have mostly single or semi-attached houses, and you see parents or older siblings taking kids door to door late afternoon or evening. We are in an apartment building, and no one has come to the door in years, even the kids who live in the building. <br /><br />We lived in an apartment in Queens when we were kids, and mostly trick or treated in those few buildings. I remember when Disney ran the Zorro series, my brother and I and a friend all dressed as the masked man, with a younger friend choosing a French chef's outfit. We'd ring the doorbell and announce ourselves as "Zorro - Zorro - Zorro - and French's mustard."<br /><br />When we moved to Brooklyn, our landlord (and upstairs neighbor)'s son did an annual Zacherle (The Cool Ghoul) thing, in full makeup. He had a skeleton rigged to zoom down the stairs on a wire that scared the crap out of the little kids.<br /><br />As Bill Crider would have said, I miss the old days. Jeff Meyersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00093411926030586355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-48951466707533061602018-10-29T06:47:28.451-05:002018-10-29T06:47:28.451-05:00I remember in the fifties and sixties when Hallowe...I remember in the fifties and sixties when Halloween was popular with kids and a lot of fun. Now we live in a world where it is just not safe to open your door after dark. In my neighborhood the Halloween tradition has died out. Everyone turns out their lights and stays inside. Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-38211614667037312642018-10-29T05:17:07.936-05:002018-10-29T05:17:07.936-05:00James, you paint a vivid picture of your Halloween...James, you paint a vivid picture of your Halloween days. It must have been a lot of fun. Thanks to the movies and magazines, I have a fairly good idea of Halloween in America in the mid-20th century. And that was such a memorable period for so many people, both in the US and elsewhere including here in India. I enjoyed listening to my Dad talk about his childhood days, minus Halloween, of course.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.com