Tonight my son is going Trick-Or-Treating. Don't even get me started on why towns schedule Trick-Or-Treat on October 28th rather than oh, let's say Halloween.
Anyway, you would think I would have all sorts of awesome stories of my Trick-Or-Treating as a child. Doesn't everyone?
Well, no. As a matter of fact, I don't have very many memories of Trick-Or-Treating because I grew up in a small town in Ohio.
Back in the 1960's some kids somewhere in this country had been given apples with razor blades and needles in them for Halloween and our small town in Ohio and a lot of other towns in the area stopped having Trick-Or-Treat.
Yes, they outlawed a long standing tradition because the world was a big bad scary place back then.
No more full size candy bars. Yep, they didn't even make snack size candy bars back then, you got the full sized ones when you went out on Halloween. OK, you also got homemade popcorn balls and pennies, so it wasn't all Halloween nirvana.
This whole thing happened when I was around 6 or 7, so I really only have a few years of Halloween fun that I can remember.
When I decided to do a post on this subject I started Googling it trying to find out when the razor blade and needle incidents occurred, what town it was in, did they find the culprits, etc. Thought it would be an interesting story.
Well, you know what I found? The majority of these needle and razor blade stories in the 1960's were hoaxes.
They cancelled my Halloween memories because of a hoax!!! Are you kidding me! I want my childhood back!
Who would steal Halloween from this sweet child?
Guess I can gain some comfort in the fact that my parents didn't have to waste money on silly Halloween costumes, jack-o-lanterns or candy bars. Yeah, that was one benefit of the whole thing (insert sarcasm)!
BTW, I didn't need Picasa or Picnik to add sepia tone to my photo, it was already there. It was popular at the time. Along with the pixie haircut.
It is one of my husband's pet peeves that they don't hold Trick-or-Treat on October 31st. He thinks it's a weird Ohio thing (he's from New York and is forever comparing Midwestern ways with "big city" ways). Does your town hold Trick-or-Treat on Halloween or just on a day close to Halloween?
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Ours is tonight, right now, as well. I didn't know it until yesterday. I thought it would be MOnday. They don't ever have it here on the 31st.....but why tonight. I feel bad for the teachers tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteWhat is Max dressing up as. I'd love to see his picture. Tell him to have fun.
Ours in on Halloween. They used to schedule it for a weekend and everyone complained so much they went back to the actual day! The only dress up we ever did was at school for our classmates. I think we went to 2 or 3 houses when I was a young teen...family houses. yep-that was a bad time! xo Diana
ReplyDeleteOurs is always on Halloween, although many activities are on other days. Fun old costume photos!
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry you missed out on trick or treating. Love your sweet photo.
ReplyDeleteHalloween hugs!
Well, I'm from the midwest and trick-or-treating has always been on the day it's supposed to be...Halloween! I can't believe they didn't have trick or treating when you were little. Why didn't they just plan an evening Halloween thing at the school? Poor kids.
ReplyDeleteOh, by the way, even though you're wearing a witch hat and have bats flying around your head, you look like a little angel ;)
ReplyDeleteI love the costumes that you showed on the post. How fun! Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteWe have Halloween on the 31st unless it falls on a Sunday and then we have it on Saturday, the 30th.
Love the costumes. Brought back memories. Trick or Treat here was on Thursday the 27th. They never do it on Halloween. Nobody can tell me why. I've been asking the question for 25 years. Happy Pumpkin Day to you and yours.
ReplyDeleteOh my, you're were a cute little witch, weren't you!
ReplyDeleteTrT will be on Halloween this year because it stormed last night. The neighbors and I are all for it.
In fact, you can see me talk about here.http://www.abc27.com/story/15882801/susquehanna-township-postpones-trick-or-treat
I'm about 1minute in to the story.
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ahhh this post brings back wonderful memories. I love Halloween. I'm living in the small town of Lebanon,Ct. We are very fortunate to have so many wonderful people doing great things. One of the farms called R farm (not our farm) is having a little Goblin party on Saturday and I believe that people meet on the green to have trick or treat. I was lucky to grow up in a small town where we knew almost everyone. When that scare came out our rule was to go to the houses we knew. We were fortunate to know so many people. I love candy!
ReplyDeleteOur small Ohio town always has ours on Halloween. Kind of a pain on a weeknite.
ReplyDeleteMy mom always made me get those awful pixie haircuts also. I hated them. I always let my daughter have her hair the length SHE wanted it.
My midwestern town allows trick or treating on Halloween at specific hours (4-7pm). When we first moved here from the NYC area (where trick or treating was on Halloween with NO specific hours), my 3-year-old was ready to go at 10am. The street was eerily quiet so I called a neighbor who explained the town hours- it was so bizarre to me!
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