You know what I think a big part was? Our parents were young when they had us & they created better lives for us than they had growing up. My dad worked all the time but I never remember him not making time for us or being too tired. He took real pleasure in us as well. Grew up in an apt. in the Bronx with an absent dad & mom who was a nurse but liked her meds. Five of us & at 32 built a five bedroom house in Jersey subs. Crazy. I didn't get married til 35, had my one & only at 37 & we can barely handle him, a house & a dog!
@@samanthab1923 Yes it's very true my father worked two jobs and he still made time for us to go on little vacations and probably he was very tired. It was a different mind set with those people from that generation. Their families came first 🤔
America, the USA 🇺🇸 was different then. Most families stayed together and like my family we went to church every Sunday, ate dinner every night around a table, talking. My parents did fun things with us when we were young. Halloween was fun, my dad would follow us through the neighborhood with a flashlight while we went door to door with our pumpkin 🎃 plastic buckets (later years pillow cases) and collect our sugar haul. Mom was home and cooked meals for us every night, was up before we went to school and made lunches for us as we quickly ate cereal and got our book bags ready and caught the bus. Such a great time to be a kid in the 70’s and a teenager in the 80’s. I feel our society hit an all time high up to 1990 then it started to go downhill. Broken homes, more divorce, drugs and gangs, crime, social ills, kids dropping out of school and more single parent homes and less manufacturing and industry in America. It all plays in to where we are now. A nation that is definitely post modernism and post Christian that’s for sure
I remember going to school on Halloween in the 70s. We could wear costumes, we had a parade and a whole bunch of treats. One of the best days of the year.
I went to a Catholic school. We always had a school parade on Halloween (or the Friday before if it fell on a weekend), then we got to go home early. November 1 is All Saints Day, which is a big deal to Catholics, so I always had the day after Hallloween off. My public school friends were so jealous!
We played a Disney album called, "Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of The Haunted House. Screams & Groans, and Fuses & Explosions were my favorite parts. We had a big iron caldrun with dry ice in it at the door, so the smoke would come down the sides and cover the walkway.
I still own that album, my mom played it to freak us out. I got nostalgic for vinyl records a little 10 years ago, and bought another copy. Good times 😀
Oh boy, I remember those school parades! It was a all day event, and even the teachers dressed up. In 75 or 76, my mother made me the red and white six million dollar man outfit, and I was the envy of the school. If I could do just one Halloween over again, that would probably be the one.
I was the Six Million Dollar Man about that time period when I was 9 or 10. 'Cept mine was one of those cheap, $3.00 dime store costumes from TG&Y...I still dug it! Your outfit sounds like it really rocked, Mike! And I remember all the Bicentenial stuff all over the place too!
@@kevinnewsom3128 I was just going to get the Ben Cooper one and it was actually my mom that suggested that she make the costume when I told her about it. But you're right, the cheap store ones were cool. I wish I still had my old Batman one. And I still collect bicentennial quarters do this day.
I remember one year my older sisters entered me in a Halloween parade/contest at a local park , circa 1973. They dresssed me up like a hobo, and instead of just drawing a beard on my face with make up, they used egg whites to stick coffee grounds to my cheeks and neck. It was so itchy! I can still remember the bus ride to the park. My sisters had to keep telling to stop touching my face. Oh, after all that, I won no contest.
I’m 54. One of my memories of trick or treating back in the ‘70’s here in KC Missouri is one year, when the weather turned extremely poor on halloween. I’m talking heavy, cold rain, and my 2 sisters and I STILL went out to trick or treating, and the neighbors STILL played along and passed out candy. As a matter of fact, we learned early on, the colder and nastier the weather, the better the candy haul.
An unseasonably warm Halloween before there were curfew hours to trick or treating. 4 full pillowcase loads of candy in total. Had to return home to empty my pillowcase out each time!
60s and early 70s we would get full size candy bars . And then they came out with the minis. We used pillow cases and they would get full. I remember we would go to a good neighborhood.
Yes pillow cases when we got older but I remember the blow mold pumpkin buckets with plastic handles and they even had the skull buckets too. The handles would snap off sometimes and would end up picking up candy spilled on someones lawn. lol
There was an urban legend in our neighborhood in the early 60's that the old woman who lived in the woods down a long driveway put out a pumpkin head full of full size candy bars with a sign that said "Take Just One". Of course every time we went there the pumpkin head was empty. Everyone just assumed that the first kid took ALL the candy bars. But she probably put out an empty head with the sign so she didn't have to spend a dime on candy....and our imaginations did the rest. Turned 17 in 1970 so I was too old for the 70's....but there was still a LOT of kids coming to the door.
I was a 70s kid. A tradition I passed to my kids was to put all your candy in a big bowl and I told them that’s the best smell in the world!!! They’re in their 20s now and still smell the bowl every year and love it! That magical, wonderful smell of all the candy mixed together is pure heaven and a trip back to simpler times. Try it!
Halloween was great back then, got so many memories of getting sick from eating too much candy and trying to decide what you were gonna be for that year. Also it was a completely different time where you could send your kids out on their own or with friends of there’s and didn’t have to worry about them 🎃
Yep, I remember. With five kids & I was the 2nd too the youngest it was a blast! We had a school carnival, made our own costumes & trick or treated till nine. We would go through our candy haul- & in those days it was huge! Plus we carved pumpkins, roasted the seeds & watched all the TV specials of the time. I loved growiing up then! ♥️
In the early 70s we were kinda poor. I WANTED one of those store bought costumes from K Mart, but it wasn't to be. First off, let me say, my mum was the greatest! She was such a wonderful mum! She was probably not more than 22 years old at this time- just a girl. My mum said she would create a costume for me. Not excited. So my mum comes in and informs me I'm to be a witch. She would put one of her skirts on me & a blouse, one of her wigs, put make up on me and she had a witches hat from some previous Halloween. I was horrified! Witches are GIRLS! I'm a BOY! She said no worries, no one would be able to tell, besides, that's the whole point of a costume. We went back and forth a bit, then it came down to either be a witch or no trick-or-treating. I was a witch. So she did her work, put me in front of a mirror, and IT WASN'T ME LOOKING BACK! It was a GIRL! She gave me a broom and a pillow case and that was that. But mum, what if my friends see me? "Don't worry, they won't talk to you, they probably think girls have cooties.Just don't talk to them. And other girls probably won't talk to you. Girls go about in cliques. If you aren't part of their group, they will ignore you. And stay on the side walk. Go door to door all the way down the block , then cross at the corner, and do the same up the other side of the street. That's how girls do it. Boys run zig-zag back and forth across the street." I was still a tad nervous. She had done a great job, but I just wasn't sure. Then she did something that was pure genius. She took some red glitter from her craft box, stood me in front of the mirror, and said some "magic" words over me as she sprinkled the glitter over me. "Now, no one will ever know you are really a boy." So I was off. It went exactly as she said. All the kids would file up the walks to the doors, usually the boys would push up close first, get their candy and take off running. The girls DID move in groups. The boys never even saw me. Not a single girl spoke to me. That magic spell was working! I did everything mum had said, and came home with a pillow case bulging with candy! The best part though was feeling like I had tricked everybody! But after that, it was only store bought costumes for me! And never dress like a girl again!
Most of us were poor in the 60’s-70’s, but didn’t really knew it because our moms were awesome! If they couldn’t save money to us a Halloween box with the plastic face mask and body costumes, they would use whatever they had at home and made us amazing costumes. Best childhood and Best mom’s and dad’s!!!
I always loved grouping all the candies I've collected. Kids today must be so bored since everyone buys the same Costco candy bags. In the 70s, there were so many types of candy.
I go out of my way to buy different candy and full size candy. When my kids went trick or treating they got 50 reese's and 51 snickers. Nothing against those two candy bars but what a bore.
I am 57 now this bideo sure brings me back..I took a pillow case and walked all over my neighborhood..and received LOTS of candy. Happy times at halloween
I grew up in a large trailer park(it bordered two streets)outside Syracuse, so we were able to score a decent haul-including full-size candy bars-in relative safety. The only downside was the plastic masks that you could barely see or breathe through, and the elastic usually broke by the end of the night. I don’t recall any fear of poisoned candy; the real danger was kids getting hit by cars-it seemed that there was at least one every year.
Poison candy is and has always been a myth. The only time that has ever happened (which was in the 70's) it was the father murdering his own son with poison pixy stix and blaming it on halloween candy to collect insurance money.
I grew up a couple hours west, outside of Buffalo. Those plastic masks really did suck, about as much as getting a pencil, or piece of fruit in the bag.
Yup remember actuslly haveing to have two bags sometimes three one would always tear from weight...and no we weret overweight..back then we walked miles
@@bobsmith-ru7xp Thank you, Bob! Was gonna the comment same thing. Pretty sure even Penn & Teller did a segment on this hysteria on their show "Bullsh*t!"
There was a great anticipation for Halloween as a kid from waiting to see the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown special, to activities at School to the big night itself. Nothing else was as fun as a group of friends going on your own down the neighborhood knocking on the doors of the people that you knew, but never had a reason to knock on their door- plus they really didn’t know who you were because of the costumes. An Amazing moment in American culture for sure and fun memories. 🧡🎃👻🖤
Oh, what a fun time during that time. I remember watching the Creature Double Feature on WBSK TV-38 where my brother and I got introduced to Godzilla, Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Boris Karloff. What scared me the most. Was watching Genesis of the Daleks. On Halloween
Actually, the Creature Double Feature was broadcasted on WLVI Channel 56 in the 1970's from 1 to 4 p.m. We also had the Creature Feature on Saturday nights from 11:30 p.m. until 1:00 a.m.😁
I remember Trick Or Treating in the 1960's & 1970's in Wisconsin. There was ALWAYS one neighbor who gave out Nickels as her "treat" instead of candy. Man O Man, what a JOY to get a whole 5 cents & then take to the nearest Pharmacy to buy the candy of your own choice. Or, save the nickel towards the purchase of a new MAD Magazine, also sold at the Pharmacy. How did I get this old???
None of the kids from today can ever appreciate how good it was between the ben cooper costumes, parades, haunted houses and bags of candy that would be rationed out for days. And how it, along with Thanksgiving was a respected holiday. Now they're just stepping stones to Christmas...with Christmas decorations going out in September....
We would put some Halloween cutouts on the doors and windows at home to decorate. There was very little in the way of outdoor decorating then, no inflatables and no animatronics, nothing like that. My brother and friends would gather at one of our houses just before dark on Halloween night. Then we'd set off into the night in our small town. Costumes were mostly homemade with maybe a store bought mask. No adult supervision. We all carried bars of soap to soap windows and a few eggs to throw, but if we thought a cop was coming we'd ditch the eggs, lol. Good harmless fun. We'd stay out until about 10pm and then head home with our big bags of candy. Still my favorite time of year!
Right? I remember the first year I started to see outdoor Halloween decor. Lights & Blow molds, etc. 1990 & my BF at the time were living in Metuchen NJ. Nearby Edison was done up like Christmas. Never saw anything like it. Where I was from in jersey it was all mums, pumpkins & maybe a bale of hay & corn stalks with Indian corn on the door. No wreathes.
Summer Rose Yes! Noticing a lot of the purple & orange this year. Saw on the news Halloween will be big this year because it's on a Sunday & it's the first time kids are going out in 2 years. Lots of money being spent.
@@samanthab1923 Nobody did the lights like that when I was a kid. Mom had a plug in jack-o-lantern with a cat that she put in the window. We carved pumpkins and had those out with candles in them. That was it. People have their yards decorated in fall themes around here and that is pretty. I like it. But the whole lights thing to me is something I feel should be left for Christmas, but I am old school. I don't like it overdone, just like I don't like $40.00 costumes. Something is missing. Sigh. I try to keep it as old school as possible. I do hope we get a lot of kids, though. We got zero last year and exactly one the year before. 😖👻
I remember one year my mother decided I was going to be the wolfman and made a plaster of paris face mask for me. I had to have it crafted to my face, including the straws in my nose to breathe while the plaster hardened. Took a couple of hours and I was sweating like crazy!
Awww, what fun costumes and parties and treats!!! Yes, I loved taking my daughter around the neighborhood in SF back then...she was usually dressed as a ballerina or maybe a pricess....Lots of sweet trets.....Had two more kids in the eighties and loved dressing them up as pirates and dragons and such....
I was 7 when the decade began; we'd recently moved from Detroit to South Milwaukee, WI. I can remember three of the store-bought costumes I wore...a skeleton, Archie (Andrews) and Bingo of The Banana Splits. Although we'd heard the stories about supposed razor blades in candy, nothing like that ever happened around our neck of the woods. In fact, there was an elderly lady on a nearby street who invited kids in for doughnuts and apple cider. My older brothers did take me to a haunted house, run by the March Of Dimes, in an old building I would later find out was a derelict hospital. All I remember was a strobe-lit scene involving a giant spider, "Dracula's throne room" (they used the old chapel for that) and a rather unsettling scene depicting a teen suicide. I also was taken to a Halloween-themed event at the Milwaukee Public Museum, the highlight of which was the "Haunted Streets Of Old Milwaukee"...an exhibit, still there today, that had been given a ghostly makeover!
When I was very little I remember my dad painting these wonderful scenes of Peanuts characters on the front window. He did it for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. I thought he was the greatest artist. The summer I turned 5 we moved out to a country housing community. He painted that year but the next he built a spook house in the basement. The basement ran the length of the long ranch style house. The spook house took up a 3rd of it. It was brilliant. Not really scary for an adult but for a kid it was. He actually made simple animatronics like a corpse that sat up in its coffin when you stepped on a switch and a witch stirring a caldron. There were spooky murals painted in florescent paint with a black light. He even borrowed the real human skeleton from the biology department from the school he worked at. My mom's German club students came to see it. A couple of boy scout and girl scout troops came. We had a fantastic Halloween parties. I think that's where my love of Halloween comes from him and all the amazing things he did for the holiday.🎃💀🦇 Happy Halloween everyone.
What great times and memories - I remember the kids on our block having discussions and sometimes arguments with what they're going to wear for Halloween, "I'm gonna be Fonzie! No way, I'm gonna be Fonzie! No way, I called it first! Oh yeah, well...!!!" I think we had several Fonzie's that year...LOL.
As a farm kid in the 70s and 80s, I never did much trick or treating. We sold hay rides through the pumpkin patch and "haunted" orchard. My favorite part, even after I was old enough to drive the tractor or truck used for the rides was always the apple cider (made from our own apples) and homemade donuts that we gave to the visitors to our farm after their ride was over. There's nothing like REAL apple cider and Krispy Kreme can't even come close to moms (R.I.P.) cinnamon and sugar donuts!
I was born in 1974 but remember my younger years trick or treatin here in southern califorina orange county and seems that it was the same here as everywhere else!!so cool I remember getting my costume at kmart like you said!!!thanks for bringing up memories from the past they are so happy and warms the heart!!!!
I was born in 63, so by the 70s I was old enough to go out trick or treating with my friends. We loved watching the scary movies they showed every year like Frankenstein, the Werewolf, Dracula, etc. I had some of the store bought and some homemade costumes. The popular ones I remember were devils, witches, princesses, vampires, cowboys, hobos, monsters, etc. The cartoon characters like Casper, Bugs Bunny, and Sylvester were common. Also comic book people like Batman, Superman, Spiderman, and Wonder Woman were big favorites. I think the 60s and 70s were the golden age of trick or treating, IMO.
I remember trick or treating for the first time in 1978. I was 4 at the time. I was Casper. I kept on saying "Halloween" because I didn't know how to say trick or treat.
I was a 70s kid we lived in the county just north of the city limits, it kinda roul area. Dirt roads no street lights always really dark. No parents we were on our own. One year i dressed up as a cowboy and rode my horse. Such good times. I will never forget them.
How great this video is!!!! I was 10 in '70 and remember everything your said, you hit the nail on the head, we had 7 kids in my family so every year I put on a flannel shirt and I was a bum and never was there adult supervision! Thank you!!! ✌
I loved this time of the year! Halloween was the start of the holiday season! We would start our trick or treating right after school and go until after dark. When the front porch light was out knew that house was no longer giving out candy. It was a lot of fun! Sometimes we would get egged or the older boys would try and confiscate our candy, but we would always get away. My fondest memory was when one house was giving out Marathon bars, which was made until the early 1980's. That, and my friend Steve Martin dressing up as a woman!! The best part was it was mostly safe and most houses participated in my neighborhood! Great times!!
We usually made our costumes, but at least 2 years in my memory we bought outfits. We had a small country neighborhood with 7 kids and everyone knew each other. There was an older gentlemen that lived alone in a small shack, he would always invite us to squeeze in and we would talk with him for a few minutes while he poured us all a dixiecup of apple cider. Then he would give each of us 5 full sized candy bars. Now that im older I have to ponder the sacrifice that must of been for him. Thanks for the great memories!!!
I remember schools having Halloween Carnivals w/ games, parades and costume contests. One had a "Spook Theater " that showed shortened versions (7-10 min.) of monster movies like The Wolfman, Frankenstein & The Mummy
In the 70’s I used to go Trick or Treating with my sister and our friends. We took a large pillow case and made our own costumes as we got older. There were no such things are fun sized candy bars. I used to love the full sized candy bars. We walked for miles. Some people made haunted houses in the garage. We threw away any apples and homemade treats in case someone put a razor blade in them. Later on, the hospital would allow the parents to bring the candy to be X-rayed for contraband. I even remember staying at a friend’s house for Halloween. It was so much fun.
I was 13 in 1970. I grew up in a small town that has changed drastically. I feel lucky to have grown up with such great music and friends. The 70s Rocked
I was born in the mid-sixties so the early seventies were my prime time Halloween memories.....I remember my school would have a carnival the day before with games and there was a cake walk where if you landed on the number that was picked you won a home baked cake. I won one every year. Trick or treating was an adventure for me and my brother. We would make our own costumes because we grew up kind of poor and we would head out at about 4pm and not come back until after midnight. We would use a pillowcase as our trick or treat bag. By the end of the night we were so tired from walking all over town and hauling that heavy bag full of candy home. My parents would first yell at us for staying out so late and then they would "check our candy"....which would mean grabbing a few choice pieces for themselves. Any loose candy would get tossed and apples would go in a big bowl on the kitchen table and the rest we feasted on for the next month or so until we were sick of candy in general. A lot of good memories.
I was a kid in the 70s. Loved trick or treating. One of the best times for me and my group was, some kid before us must've had a hole in their bag. When we reached someone's yard. There was a trail of candy. Bad for that kid good for us...lol We always carried pillow case. That way nothing could poke a hole through. Made my kids do the same thing. I told them this story, they didn't want to lose any of their candy. I love handing out candy now. Brings back great memories.
The fear of poisoned candy and razored fruit was largely overblown. I think I read that there were just a handful of such incidences across the entire country. The fear fed itself until everyone bought into it.
@@videodistro Yes...It was just a scare...There were 2 or 3 actual poisonings, but it turned out they weren't from candy a neighbor or anyone like that threw in the kids bag...Sadly the candy poisonings were all by the hands of a direct family member.
I lived in West View Borough, a tiny Borough just north of Pittsburgh. My dad cut holes in garbage bags for us 3 kids and stuffed them with paper. He then hung empty boxes and garbage like items from strings attached to the bags. I carried a sign that said "Litter us not West View. We took 1st place in our borough Halloween parade and won a whopping 20 bucks! Haha. We gave the extra 5 to my dad for the costume idea. 5 bucks was a lot back then! Great memories.
I've always loved the original "Let's Make a Deal", with Monty Hall (a fellow Canadian). I won $100 in a Quickie Deal on one of the last Wayne Brady "Let's Make a Deal" shows to be made in Las Vegas. My Quickie Deal didn't make it to air, but the camera zoomed right in on me in the show's opening.
Halloween on a Saturday or Sunday was the greatest thing EVER. We would “Trick or Treat”from 10AM until 10PM. Lunch and Dinner was CANDY!!!!!! And you would have enough candy to last until at least Thanksgiving……………
Thanks for posting this great video it brought back many fun memories! I loved Halloween (and still do) and I feel so fortunate to have been a kid of the 1970s!
My most found Halloween memories are from the 70's. I had an older cousin who was a Mason and his lodge or troop or whatever they call it, would put on a charity Haunted House or Haunted Trail depending upon what kind of property they could have access to that year. Mom and Dad would take my older sister and I one weekend to show our support for their efforts. My elementary school would always put on Halloween carnival around the 15th of October. It was always one of the things I looked forward to each year. But the thing that really mattered was the trick-or-treating. We lived in a decent sized subdivision of several dozen homes and most of those participated in the festivities. My sister and I always made our own costumes and spent a lot of time planning them out and making theme. On the big night we would head out with the other kids from our street and hit every house in the neighborhood that had its porch lights on. Man that was fun. As the 80's began I had gotten too old for the trick-or-treating and junior high didn't do a carnival so Halloween just wasn't as fun for me so I guess I'd have to say the 70's were my golden age for Halloween. Oh well, thanks for rekindling memories of my childhood once more.
My Dad would follow my brother and me in the station wagon as we trick or treated. We could cover a lot of ground and hit neighborhoods that were across the highway. I love my Dad. We gave him a bunch of our candy.
I love this video. It takes me back to a better time. I remeber going to our local drug store and seeing all the Ben Cooper and Collegeville boxed costumes. I see the one I had when I was 5 in your video at 6:16. The little girl in the front wearing the cat costume. It was my favorite. I remeber going with my mom and the neighborhood kids and then going with the older neighborhood kids. We walked miles through the city. The hospital used to offer to x-ray candy for free, but my mom used to just check every piece. Sadly we always had to throw out apples and popcorn balls and othe rhomemade items per sugestion of the local police. I remeber all the rumors of razor blades and poison. I remeber the true story of the "candyman" who poisoned his son on Halloween with cyanide in a pixiestix. We decorated the house every year and put speakers outside and played a disney haunted house album. I have awesome memories of Halloween. I remeber these wax harmonicas people gave out, they were cool.
I was under 10 in the mid 70s I remember every Halloween we never had bags for our candy , so we use a pillowcase. We hit every house in our neighborhood , then run home dump out our candy , switch mask and go back out again . Halloween has always been my most favorite holiday.
I remember an older couple who went above and beyond for us. The house was decorated inside and out. The man (I mean werewolf) would greet us at the door and invite us all in. The house was full of trick or treaters playing games, bobbing for apples and gobbling up the popcorn balls, caramel apples, cupcakes and punch they made for us. It was hard to leave but the neighborhood was huge and candy beckoned. Such a magical time. Thanks for the memory reel! 🎃
I loved the 70s, in grade 3 i was peter pan with 1 of those plastic masks, i won best costume in my school and got a giant chocolate bar, will never forget the best years.
I had 3 siblings too old to trick or treat and 1 too young so my brother & I were sent out at least twice to fill those paper grocery bags. I remember how heavy they were & how exhausted I was by 9pm. But how exciting Halloween was!
I remember being Casper the friendly ghost when I went trick or treating in Richmond IN in the early 1970s. And I lived in Enterprise AL, I dressed as a clown in 1973, also there was a Halloween carnival at holly Hill school too.
My 1970's Halloween memories: Rumors about razor blades in apples, needles in candy and pennies given out that had been heated up in skillets. Also about the Zodiac Killer being loose. When I was in highschool, the drama kids would put on their own version of a haunted house they called, "Scream In The Dark." It was always held at one of their houses. When I was a college student I went trick-or-treating with my theater major friends. For candy they sang Broadway show tunes. One of my friends was dressed up as King Henry VIII, and with his red hair and beard, he looked exactly like His Majesty. Going back to the needles in candy rumors, a few hospitals in my city offered, free of charge, to X-ray "suspicious" candy. 🤡👻🎃🤖🧛🧙🦇🦉🕷️🐱🐺🧁🍭🍬🍎
I had a Casper the ghost mask, still hiding in my mom attic. I remember the haunted houses and one inside church Sunday school classes. I remember one member of the church pass out at the sight of a bride doll dress in blood. Next Sunday school class I remember the room I was in had that doll stored in the corner of the room. I never went back to that church with mom or dad because it scare me so badly.
As a kid in the 70's those plastic masks eye openings and mouth openings would give you cuts, if it was slightly warm you'd sweat and usually they would get caught on a bush and tear, by the time you were 8 or9 you stopped wearing them and made your own. I grew up in the suburbs, when you were old enough to go with your friends and no parents we would go all over fill up two pillow cases, there were some older teenagers who would try and steal your bag, I used to put a rock in the bottom of my pillow case so I could hit them with it and get away. There were houses you had to stop at every year no matter what, you had the houses that gave out the best treats like, little hug drinks, orange or iced tea pint cartons from a local dairy, full sized candy bars and there was a house where they gave you a fifty cent piece instead of candy, we used to bring a different mask or jacket and hit them a couple of times. Then you had the people who did up their houses, dressed in costumes and tried to scare you, those were always fun. What sucked for me is I am tall I was as big as teenagers when I was ten and some people would try and not give me candy saying I was too old until I took off my mask and showed my face. When me and my friends got too old to do it, we used to walk the neighborhood to protect the little ones from the candy thieves, chasing them down, smack them around a little then bring the candy back, usually they would give us the pick of their bag we returned to them for doing so.
I was born in August of 1961. We had the best time between 1967 and 1977. I just turned 60. I still remember everything from this rime period. Great memories with my younger brother and my cousins.
I remember being in Grade 4 in 1972 when the Grade 1 costume parade came through our classroom. There was this one kid who didn't wear his costume and was still in the parade. So we all booed him. Kids can be mean.
I grew up in the 70s & early 80s and that's totally how Halloween & Trick or Treating was back then. My dad would take me Trick or Treating while my mom stayed home & passed out candy. I remember the urban legends of the razor blades but that's all it ended up being, just a story to scare kids (and parents). I remember one old lady on my Trick or Treat route that gave out quarters and dimes to us kids. We had one neighbor that always gave out apples (picked from their own apple tree), but we knew them really well, so those weren't thrown out.
when i was a kid in the 70s. my best time was the year my father had the a vision of all seven of his kids being a big dragon for halloween. so we got seven boxes, fasten them together in a row to make the dragon. the head was my dad with all us kids following in the suit. we all decorated the dragon to be crazy mad looking and it worked. best halloween ever. thanks
Here's a Halloween tradition very few know about that I participated in every year... Corning! For those of us who grew up around cornfields & in the midwest... you would sneak into a cornfield @ night & take corn husks, (trying not to get caught by the farmer) 😉 remove the corn, place in a paper bag then you would go out in a group and throw the corn & the front door (mostly metal during that time) it made a ghastly sound. Some neighbors would get furious & some would think it was hilarious but it was harmless fun.
Oh yes! Prime years for me to be trick or treating in the early to mid 70s! They put such a scare into us about candy hazards that I even questioned our super kind elderly couple neighbors from around the block when the Mrs went to hand me a Tootsie Pop from their candy bowl and noticed that the wrapper had come off!! I made a big deal about it and my parents pretty much told me to not worry about it! Haha!
Proud to be a 70's kid!! In the early 70's me and my nieces would wear a white sheet like little ghosts, carry our big brown bags, and walk around the block. Even in the hood back then, we would knock on doors and almost everyone had candy. In the late 70's, we moved into another home and it was much better, i was old enough to go with other kids/friends and get out of the neighborhood for more candy✌🏾😋. I do remember the rumors about razor blades in candy even a rumor about syringe needles. One year(either 74 or 75)my older sister took us trick or treating and told us not to put our hands in the bags until we came home.
First time I remember going Trick-Or-Treating was in 1976 when I was 2. My dad dressed me up in an old red jacket and a plastic devil mask. All I remember was walking around the neighborhood in the dark, having to go to people's doors, say something strange to the people (to my 2-year old mind), and have people put candy in a plastic jack-o-lantern bucket I was carrying. The next year was better as I was old enough to understand what it was all about.
Halloween is my favorite holiday and growing up in the 70s was a blast during this time. We would have parties at school with treats our mothers would make and didn't have to worry too much about people wanting to do anything bad. Our hometown also had an annual "Boo House" usually put on by the Jaycees. We always went at least once. I miss those days as they were golden memories of my youth.
I was born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska (February 1971). By Halloween, we'd always have a lot of snow and it would be close to sub-zero temperatures. Did we go out trick or treating in that kind of weather? Heck yeah we did! Most kids just put a parka on over their costumes. Those kind of kids had a parent or a parent of a friend drive them around the neighborhood until their pillow case was full or until it hit bedtime. My mom was a single mother and we didn't have a car back then. I usually got a costume that had enough room to be worn over my snowsuit. When we got home, my mom didn't take away my candy, I got to keep it in my drawer. I thought it was so great! I remember all those scary movies too. My mom let me watch them all (probably when I was a bit too young). I still love being scared.
Cool! I lived in Ohio most my life, I can't remember it snowing but I remember cold miserable rains and it was cold enough to see your breath, mom would beg candy from us - with a guilty trip on board, and my eldest son would trick or treat and then set up a candy shop to sale us his candy🎃 I think he got 21 lbs of candy one year I had a picture of him laying over the candy on his back wearing a scream costume.
I was one of those 70s kids. When you could still go out at night for Halloween (in the community I live in now trick or treating is from 1 to 4 in the afternoon! How sad.) It was cool and crisp and autumn-y at Halloween back in the 70s. Of course that also meant that sometimes you had to wear a sweater over your costume, but I'd rather wear a sweater and have it smell like autumn than have it feel like summer. We used to get those plastic masks which were awesome because there were so many options but they were SO UNPLEASANT to wear - you couldn't breathe and your face would sweat. My Mom told us which houses we could go to but didn't go with us. We would get a pretty good haul and then come back and my brothers and cousins and I would trade.
Mom would take my little brother and I Trick or Treating while dad gave out candy. That was strictly his job. He loved doing it. A week before Halloween he would go to the store and buy an insane amount of candy. Most of it chocolate and always full-size.
I’m so happy that I grew up during this time. Trick or treating was so much fun! Wish I still had my Ben Cooper Frankenstein costume with mask. Kids these days don’t know what they missed!
It was a very magical time.The video hit it right on.Haunted houses,movies,plastic face masks that made you sweat.Popcorn balls,Candied apple's and so much more👍
It truly was a fun time to grow up back then as a kid, I really believe that we were blessed to have experienced those times 🤔
You know what I think a big part was? Our parents were young when they had us & they created better lives for us than they had growing up. My dad worked all the time but I never remember him not making time for us or being too tired. He took real pleasure in us as well. Grew up in an apt. in the Bronx with an absent dad & mom who was a nurse but liked her meds. Five of us & at 32 built a five bedroom house in Jersey subs. Crazy. I didn't get married til 35, had my one & only at 37 & we can barely handle him, a house & a dog!
@@samanthab1923 Yes it's very true my father worked two jobs and he still made time for us to go on little vacations and probably he was very tired. It was a different mind set with those people from that generation. Their families came first 🤔
Amen
America, the USA 🇺🇸 was different then. Most families stayed together and like my family we went to church every Sunday, ate dinner every night around a table, talking. My parents did fun things with us when we were young. Halloween was fun, my dad would follow us through the neighborhood with a flashlight while we went door to door with our pumpkin 🎃 plastic buckets (later years pillow cases) and collect our sugar haul. Mom was home and cooked meals for us every night, was up before we went to school and made lunches for us as we quickly ate cereal and got our book bags ready and caught the bus. Such a great time to be a kid in the 70’s and a teenager in the 80’s. I feel our society hit an all time high up to 1990 then it started to go downhill. Broken homes, more divorce, drugs and gangs, crime, social ills, kids dropping out of school and more single parent homes and less manufacturing and industry in America. It all plays in to where we are now. A nation that is definitely post modernism and post Christian that’s for sure
@@Pistolpete147 Absolutely agree I couldn't have said it better myself 🤔
I was one of those kids trick or treating in the 70”s! It was still a magical time of innocent fun!✨
Yes it sure was a magical innocent time. I too was a kid of the 70's. I sure has a lot of fun on Halloween.
@@missmable6015 we”re Lucky!🔥✨
i agree. i was one of those kids too. it was wonderful. how things have deteriorated. sad.
@@Mike4metal yes we sure are very lucky.
@@Kai-yc5sp yes it's so sad how things have deteriorated.
That was the good old days, when we used pillow cases for all the candy we got! 🎃
Yes!
I remember my brother coming home after his pillow case was full getting in another costume and filling up another pillow case😆
He did share with me.
I used a pillow case, I was tricker treating in the 90’s.
Or in Chicago, the official Brach's candy bag.
Exactly!
I remember going to school on Halloween in the 70s. We could wear costumes, we had a parade and a whole bunch of treats. One of the best days of the year.
I went to a Catholic school. We always had a school parade on Halloween (or the Friday before if it fell on a weekend), then we got to go home early. November 1 is All Saints Day, which is a big deal to Catholics, so I always had the day after Hallloween off. My public school friends were so jealous!
Don’t forget the little orange Unicef boxes
had Halloween party at Schools in 1970/1980.
Then you'll be happy to know that they still do that now at least at my school they do
Same here. Costume parade through the school and then back to our classroom for the Halloween party
I'm so grateful I was a kid on Halloween in the 70's. My mom made me a witch costume and I couldn't wait to wear it
I proudly went out as Spider Man one year! Lol
We played a Disney album called, "Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of The Haunted House. Screams & Groans, and Fuses & Explosions were my favorite parts. We had a big iron caldrun with dry ice in it at the door, so the smoke would come down the sides and cover the walkway.
I had that album! Wasn't it awesome!?
we played that album also. Mom put speakers outside. I found the album on ebay this year
I had the same Halloween album I used to play on Halloween.
it's here on UA-cam ua-cam.com/video/MFK8ql37LJw/v-deo.html
I still own that album, my mom played it to freak us out. I got nostalgic for vinyl records a little 10 years ago, and bought another copy. Good times 😀
Oh boy, I remember those school parades! It was a all day event, and even the teachers dressed up. In 75 or 76, my mother made me the red and white six million dollar man outfit, and I was the envy of the school. If I could do just one Halloween over again, that would probably be the one.
I was the Six Million Dollar Man about that time period when I was 9 or 10. 'Cept mine was one of those cheap, $3.00 dime store costumes from TG&Y...I still dug it! Your outfit sounds like it really rocked, Mike! And I remember all the Bicentenial stuff all over the place too!
@@kevinnewsom3128 I was just going to get the Ben Cooper one and it was actually my mom that suggested that she make the costume when I told her about it. But you're right, the cheap store ones were cool. I wish I still had my old Batman one. And I still collect bicentennial quarters do this day.
I remember one year my older sisters entered me in a Halloween parade/contest at a local park , circa 1973. They dresssed me up like a hobo, and instead of just drawing a beard on my face with make up, they used egg whites to stick coffee grounds to my cheeks and neck. It was so itchy! I can still remember the bus ride to the park. My sisters had to keep telling to stop touching my face. Oh, after all that, I won no contest.
I loved being a 70s kid. I was born in 64,but by the 70s, I was old enough to be aware of things.
Me too👍😊
Me three!
Me 4! Born in 1965, grew up in Chicago land.
70's kid right here...born in 1968, nothing like it. Awesome decade to be a kid. Use to love combing out my afro too✊🏾🤣✌🏾
@@elwin38 those cool hair picks.
I’m 54. One of my memories of trick or treating back in the ‘70’s here in KC Missouri is one year, when the weather turned extremely poor on halloween. I’m talking heavy, cold rain, and my 2 sisters and I STILL went out to trick or treating, and the neighbors STILL played along and passed out candy. As a matter of fact, we learned early on, the colder and nastier the weather, the better the candy haul.
That was always the worst when you had to wear your coat over your costume.
@@samanthab1923😂 Truth 💯
@@floydsemlow8253 Right? 🎃
We were let loose by ourselves and didn't return til around midnight. We had no fear of anything. We could be kids.
An unseasonably warm Halloween before there were curfew hours to trick or treating. 4 full pillowcase loads of candy in total. Had to return home to empty my pillowcase out each time!
Yes, we'd trick or treat all day back then. Make trips back to house and empty the pillow case and head back out! lol
The apples were so heavy
@@deborahstone9696😂😂
60s and early 70s we would get full size candy bars . And then they came out with the minis. We used pillow cases and they would get full. I remember we would go to a good neighborhood.
I used pillow cases too in the mid to late 70s. Filled two and then had to share with my younger sister and dad.
Remember getting Huggies juices which weighed down our bags.......
Yes pillow cases when we got older but I remember the blow mold pumpkin buckets with plastic handles and they even had the skull buckets too. The handles would snap off sometimes and would end up picking up candy spilled on someones lawn. lol
There was an urban legend in our neighborhood in the early 60's that the old woman who lived in the woods down a long driveway put out a pumpkin head full of full size candy bars with a sign that said "Take Just One". Of course every time we went there the pumpkin head was empty. Everyone just assumed that the first kid took ALL the candy bars. But she probably put out an empty head with the sign so she didn't have to spend a dime on candy....and our imaginations did the rest. Turned 17 in 1970 so I was too old for the 70's....but there was still a LOT of kids coming to the door.
It was a highly organized and planned military mission for some of us, lol.
Remember being in high school in the early 70s and taking my boyfriend's little brother and sister trick or treating. So much fun!!! 🎃
I was a 70s kid. Back in those days, Halloween shopping at Kmart was so exciting. 🎃💀👹👽
😍😍😍😍
I was a 70s kid. A tradition I passed to my kids was to put all your candy in a big bowl and I told them that’s the best smell in the world!!! They’re in their 20s now and still smell the bowl every year and love it! That magical, wonderful smell of all the candy mixed together is pure heaven and a trip back to simpler times. Try it!
Halloween was great back then, got so many memories of getting sick from eating too much candy and trying to decide what you were gonna be for that year. Also it was a completely different time where you could send your kids out on their own or with friends of there’s and didn’t have to worry about them 🎃
Monday's eventually ruin everything. 🤔
Yep, I remember.
With five kids & I was the 2nd too the youngest it was a blast!
We had a school carnival, made our own costumes & trick or treated till nine.
We would go through our candy haul- & in those days it was huge!
Plus we carved pumpkins, roasted the seeds & watched all the TV specials of the time.
I loved growiing up then! ♥️
In the early 70s we were kinda poor. I WANTED one of those store bought costumes from K Mart, but it wasn't to be. First off, let me say, my mum was the greatest! She was such a wonderful mum! She was probably not more than 22 years old at this time- just a girl. My mum said she would create a costume for me. Not excited. So my mum comes in and informs me I'm to be a witch. She would put one of her skirts on me & a blouse, one of her wigs, put make up on me and she had a witches hat from some previous Halloween.
I was horrified! Witches are GIRLS! I'm a BOY! She said no worries, no one would be able to tell, besides, that's the whole point of a costume. We went back and forth a bit, then it came down to either be a witch or no trick-or-treating. I was a witch. So she did her work, put me in front of a mirror, and IT WASN'T ME LOOKING BACK! It was a GIRL! She gave me a broom and a pillow case and that was that.
But mum, what if my friends see me? "Don't worry, they won't talk to you, they probably think girls have cooties.Just don't talk to them. And other girls probably won't talk to you. Girls go about in cliques. If you aren't part of their group, they will ignore you. And stay on the side walk. Go door to door all the way down the block , then cross at the corner, and do the same up the other side of the street. That's how girls do it. Boys run zig-zag back and forth across the street."
I was still a tad nervous. She had done a great job, but I just wasn't sure. Then she did something that was pure genius. She took some red glitter from her craft box, stood me in front of the mirror, and said some "magic" words over me as she sprinkled the glitter over me. "Now, no one will ever know you are really a boy."
So I was off. It went exactly as she said. All the kids would file up the walks to the doors, usually the boys would push up close first, get their candy and take off running. The girls DID move in groups. The boys never even saw me. Not a single girl spoke to me. That magic spell was working! I did everything mum had said, and came home with a pillow case bulging with candy! The best part though was feeling like I had tricked everybody!
But after that, it was only store bought costumes for me! And never dress like a girl again!
That is a beautiful memory about your mom
You were a warlock.
Nice memory.
@@Kellyd2024 I was thinking that too.
Most of us were poor in the 60’s-70’s, but didn’t really knew it because our moms were awesome! If they couldn’t save money to us a Halloween box with the plastic face mask and body costumes, they would use whatever they had at home and made us amazing costumes. Best childhood and Best mom’s and dad’s!!!
@@SunnyCalifornia-ed1hk Right on! Our mums rocked! Can't comment on "dads," never had one.
I always loved grouping all the candies I've collected. Kids today must be so bored since everyone buys the same Costco candy bags. In the 70s, there were so many types of candy.
I go out of my way to buy different candy and full size candy. When my kids went trick or treating they got 50 reese's and 51 snickers. Nothing against those two candy bars but what a bore.
And handmade treats like candy apples, rice crispies treats. Then along came razor blades in the food.
My “last” Halloween was in 1970 when I made, and wore, a Barnabas Collins costume. Worked on it for weeks!
Loved Dark Shadows!
Good costume.
I remember my older sister cried when dark shadows ended
@@jebronlames7789, indeed it was a sad day…but DS lives on in DVD format and on Prime.
@@adamandrews8534 it has its own channel on pluto as well 24 /7 dark shadows -but it doesnt seem to be in order ?
👍🎃🧛 Barnabas was so creepy!
I am 57 now this bideo sure brings me back..I took a pillow case and walked all over my neighborhood..and received LOTS of candy. Happy times at halloween
I love love love this channel !!!!
I grew up in a large trailer park(it bordered two streets)outside Syracuse, so we were able to score a decent haul-including full-size candy bars-in relative safety. The only downside was the plastic masks that you could barely see or breathe through, and the elastic usually broke by the end of the night. I don’t recall any fear of poisoned candy; the real danger was kids getting hit by cars-it seemed that there was at least one every year.
That was us as little kids. Lived in a Levitt neighborhood. Tons of kids out & houses close together. 🎃👻🍁
Poison candy is and has always been a myth. The only time that has ever happened (which was in the 70's) it was the father murdering his own son with poison pixy stix and blaming it on halloween candy to collect insurance money.
I grew up a couple hours west, outside of Buffalo.
Those plastic masks really did suck, about as much as getting a pencil, or piece of fruit in the bag.
Yup remember actuslly haveing to have two bags sometimes three one would always tear from weight...and no we weret overweight..back then we walked miles
@@bobsmith-ru7xp Thank you, Bob! Was gonna the comment same thing. Pretty sure even Penn & Teller did a segment on this hysteria on their show "Bullsh*t!"
There was a great anticipation for Halloween as a kid from waiting to see the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown special, to activities at School to the big night itself. Nothing else was as fun as a group of friends going on your own down the neighborhood knocking on the doors of the people that you knew, but never had a reason to knock on their door- plus they really didn’t know who you were because of the costumes. An Amazing moment in American culture for sure and fun memories. 🧡🎃👻🖤
Oh, what a fun time during that time. I remember watching the Creature Double Feature on WBSK TV-38 where my brother and I got introduced to Godzilla, Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Boris Karloff. What scared me the most. Was watching Genesis of the Daleks. On Halloween
Actually, the Creature Double Feature
was broadcasted on WLVI Channel 56
in the 1970's from 1 to 4 p.m. We also
had the Creature Feature on Saturday
nights from 11:30 p.m. until 1:00 a.m.😁
Go Go Godzilla. My favorite to watch on the Saturday movies on TV all afternoon.
I remember going to the 5/10 dime store seeing what costumes they had. 60's and 70's were the best time. Not like now!
I distinctly remember the smell of the latex masks. It was magical.
I used to get my costume from Woolworth / Woolco. They were lower priced there!! Thanx for the good ole days. 🎃👻
Yup, Woolworths was the place to go alright...the one near us, in Chicago, burned down though.
I remember Trick Or Treating in the 1960's & 1970's in Wisconsin. There was ALWAYS one neighbor who gave out Nickels as her "treat" instead of candy. Man O Man, what a JOY to get a whole 5 cents & then take to the nearest Pharmacy to buy the candy of your own choice. Or, save the nickel towards the purchase of a new MAD Magazine, also sold at the Pharmacy. How did I get this old???
We had one of those ladies. She also mixed in dimes into the bowl. My sister was so embarrassed when I started rooting around for a dime. good times!
None of the kids from today can ever appreciate how good it was between the ben cooper costumes, parades, haunted houses and bags of candy that would be rationed out for days. And how it, along with Thanksgiving was a respected holiday. Now they're just stepping stones to Christmas...with Christmas decorations going out in September....
We would put some Halloween cutouts on the doors and windows at home to decorate. There was very little in the way of outdoor decorating then, no inflatables and no animatronics, nothing like that. My brother and friends would gather at one of our houses just before dark on Halloween night. Then we'd set off into the night in our small town. Costumes were mostly homemade with maybe a store bought mask. No adult supervision. We all carried bars of soap to soap windows and a few eggs to throw, but if we thought a cop was coming we'd ditch the eggs, lol. Good harmless fun. We'd stay out until about 10pm and then head home with our big bags of candy. Still my favorite time of year!
Right? I remember the first year I started to see outdoor Halloween decor. Lights & Blow molds, etc. 1990 & my BF at the time were living in Metuchen NJ. Nearby Edison was done up like Christmas. Never saw anything like it. Where I was from in jersey it was all mums, pumpkins & maybe a bale of hay & corn stalks with Indian corn on the door. No wreathes.
@@samanthab1923 now people have orange and purple lights like Christmas lights. To me it is overdone and ruins it, like everything 1990 and above.
Summer Rose Yes! Noticing a lot of the purple & orange this year. Saw on the news Halloween will be big this year because it's on a Sunday & it's the first time kids are going out in 2 years. Lots of money being spent.
@@samanthab1923 Nobody did the lights like that when I was a kid. Mom had a plug in jack-o-lantern with a cat that she put in the window. We carved pumpkins and had those out with candles in them. That was it. People have their yards decorated in fall themes around here and that is pretty. I like it. But the whole lights thing to me is something I feel should be left for Christmas, but I am old school. I don't like it overdone, just like I don't like $40.00 costumes. Something is missing. Sigh. I try to keep it as old school as possible.
I do hope we get a lot of kids, though. We got zero last year and exactly one the year before. 😖👻
@@samanthab1923 I actually had about 100 children trick or treating at my house last year.
I remember one year my mother decided I was going to be the wolfman and made a plaster of paris face mask for me. I had to have it crafted to my face, including the straws in my nose to breathe while the plaster hardened. Took a couple of hours and I was sweating like crazy!
Still sounds like fun though.
Awww, what fun costumes and parties and treats!!! Yes, I loved taking my daughter around the neighborhood in SF back then...she was usually dressed as a ballerina or maybe a pricess....Lots of sweet trets.....Had two more kids in the eighties and loved dressing them up as pirates and dragons and such....
I was 7 when the decade began; we'd recently moved from Detroit to South Milwaukee, WI. I can remember three of the store-bought costumes I wore...a skeleton, Archie (Andrews) and Bingo of The Banana Splits. Although we'd heard the stories about supposed razor blades in candy, nothing like that ever happened around our neck of the woods. In fact, there was an elderly lady on a nearby street who invited kids in for doughnuts and apple cider.
My older brothers did take me to a haunted house, run by the March Of Dimes, in an old building I would later find out was a derelict hospital. All I remember was a strobe-lit scene involving a giant spider, "Dracula's throne room" (they used the old chapel for that) and a rather unsettling scene depicting a teen suicide.
I also was taken to a Halloween-themed event at the Milwaukee Public Museum, the highlight of which was the "Haunted Streets Of Old Milwaukee"...an exhibit, still there today, that had been given a ghostly makeover!
When I was very little I remember my dad painting these wonderful scenes of Peanuts characters on the front window. He did it for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. I thought he was the greatest artist. The summer I turned 5 we moved out to a country housing community. He painted that year but the next he built a spook house in the basement. The basement ran the length of the long ranch style house. The spook house took up a 3rd of it. It was brilliant. Not really scary for an adult but for a kid it was. He actually made simple animatronics like a corpse that sat up in its coffin when you stepped on a switch and a witch stirring a caldron. There were spooky murals painted in florescent paint with a black light. He even borrowed the real human skeleton from the biology department from the school he worked at. My mom's German club students came to see it. A couple of boy scout and girl scout troops came. We had a fantastic Halloween parties. I think that's where my love of Halloween comes from him and all the amazing things he did for the holiday.🎃💀🦇 Happy Halloween everyone.
Your Dad sounds great!
And Mom too.
@@Kellyd2024 He was. He was chemistry teacher who loved to paint and create things. ❤️
I remember kids going trick or treating for Unicef collecting money for children overseas.
I collected for Unicef as a kid in 75&76.
@@elwin38 good man
I remember Unicef too.
I remember that...and I remember the "Bewiched" episode where Tabitha and her friends went Trick or Treating for UNICEF!
Those little milk cartons.
This brings back so many memories. Those plastic masks were awful!!
They would get water vapor on the inside from breathing. It was kinda gross.
@@bunbun8001 Lol!! Very gross!! Couldn't see out of them. Face would get all sweaty!!
@@greggcoop1223 ...and the little slot at the mouth would cut your tongue if you tried to stick it out through there!
And the rubber band almost ALWAYS either broke or came off 🤬
And rubber band almost always broke or became detached 🤬
What great times and memories - I remember the kids on our block having discussions and sometimes arguments with what they're going to wear for Halloween, "I'm gonna be Fonzie! No way, I'm gonna be Fonzie! No way, I called it first! Oh yeah, well...!!!" I think we had several Fonzie's that year...LOL.
As a farm kid in the 70s and 80s, I never did much trick or treating. We sold hay rides through the pumpkin patch and "haunted" orchard. My favorite part, even after I was old enough to drive the tractor or truck used for the rides was always the apple cider (made from our own apples) and homemade donuts that we gave to the visitors to our farm after their ride was over. There's nothing like REAL apple cider and Krispy Kreme can't even come close to moms (R.I.P.) cinnamon and sugar donuts!
I used to go to an apple orchard and they had fresh apple cider and fresh donuts. Nothing beats the combination in the fall.
I was a kid in the 70’s. Our neighborhood had a costume judging contest. I actually was a winner one year. Great memories.
I was born in 1974 but remember my younger years trick or treatin here in southern califorina orange county and seems that it was the same here as everywhere else!!so cool I remember getting my costume at kmart like you said!!!thanks for bringing up memories from the past they are so happy and warms the heart!!!!
I was born in 63, so by the 70s I was old enough to go out trick or treating with my friends. We loved watching the scary movies they showed every year like Frankenstein, the Werewolf, Dracula, etc. I had some of the store bought and some homemade costumes. The popular ones I remember were devils, witches, princesses, vampires, cowboys, hobos, monsters, etc. The cartoon characters like Casper, Bugs Bunny, and Sylvester were common. Also comic book people like Batman, Superman, Spiderman, and Wonder Woman were big favorites. I think the 60s and 70s were the golden age of trick or treating, IMO.
I remember trick or treating for the first time in 1978. I was 4 at the time. I was Casper. I kept on saying "Halloween" because I didn't know how to say trick or treat.
I was a 70s kid we lived in the county just north of the city limits, it kinda roul area. Dirt roads no street lights always really dark. No parents we were on our own. One year i dressed up as a cowboy and rode my horse. Such good times. I will never forget them.
How great this video is!!!! I was 10 in '70 and remember everything your said, you hit the nail on the head, we had 7 kids in my family so every year I put on a flannel shirt and I was a bum and never was there adult supervision! Thank you!!! ✌
I loved this time of the year! Halloween was the start of the holiday season! We would start our trick or treating right after school and go until after dark. When the front porch light was out knew that house was no longer giving out candy. It was a lot of fun! Sometimes we would get egged or the older boys would try and confiscate our candy, but we would always get away. My fondest memory was when one house was giving out Marathon bars, which was made until the early 1980's. That, and my friend Steve Martin dressing up as a woman!! The best part was it was mostly safe and most houses participated in my neighborhood! Great times!!
AHH. Those were the good ole days! I do remember😊
Going out in KISS make-up was a common thing at the time, also. I did it a few times myself.
We usually made our costumes, but at least 2 years in my memory we bought outfits. We had a small country neighborhood with 7 kids and everyone knew each other. There was an older gentlemen that lived alone in a small shack, he would always invite us to squeeze in and we would talk with him for a few minutes while he poured us all a dixiecup of apple cider. Then he would give each of us 5 full sized candy bars. Now that im older I have to ponder the sacrifice that must of been for him. Thanks for the great memories!!!
Thank you so much Recollection Road for uploading this great video, I appreciate it!
I remember schools having Halloween Carnivals w/ games, parades and costume contests. One had a "Spook Theater " that showed shortened versions (7-10 min.) of monster movies like The Wolfman, Frankenstein & The Mummy
Loved Halloween in the 1970s. So much fun.
I sure miss being a kid, being 60 sucks lol, drs appointments, blood pressure, diet. The list just keeps going....
I feel your pain 👍😂🤦♀️
Yeah enjoy your youth while it lasts it sure goes by fast 🤔
In the 70’s I used to go Trick or Treating with my sister and our friends. We took a large pillow case and made our own costumes as we got older. There were no such things are fun sized candy bars. I used to love the full sized candy bars. We walked for miles. Some people made haunted houses in the garage. We threw away any apples and homemade treats in case someone put a razor blade in them. Later on, the hospital would allow the parents to bring the candy to be X-rayed for contraband. I even remember staying at a friend’s house for Halloween. It was so much fun.
I was 13 in 1970. I grew up in a small town that has changed drastically. I feel lucky to have grown up with such great music and friends. The 70s Rocked
I was born in 1980, but we still did costume parades in elementary school. I had completely forgotten about them until this video.
I was born in the mid-sixties so the early seventies were my prime time Halloween memories.....I remember my school would have a carnival the day before with games and there was a cake walk where if you landed on the number that was picked you won a home baked cake. I won one every year. Trick or treating was an adventure for me and my brother. We would make our own costumes because we grew up kind of poor and we would head out at about 4pm and not come back until after midnight. We would use a pillowcase as our trick or treat bag. By the end of the night we were so tired from walking all over town and hauling that heavy bag full of candy home. My parents would first yell at us for staying out so late and then they would "check our candy"....which would mean grabbing a few choice pieces for themselves. Any loose candy would get tossed and apples would go in a big bowl on the kitchen table and the rest we feasted on for the next month or so until we were sick of candy in general. A lot of good memories.
I remember a lot of these costumes and also the costume parades and parties in elementary school were so exciting. 🎃👻😍
I was a kid in the 70s. Loved trick or treating.
One of the best times for me and my group was, some kid before us must've had a hole in their bag.
When we reached someone's yard. There was a trail of candy. Bad for that kid good for us...lol
We always carried pillow case. That way nothing could poke a hole through.
Made my kids do the same thing. I told them this story, they didn't want to lose any of their candy.
I love handing out candy now. Brings back great memories.
I was born 1967 I enjoyed the 70s and 80s trick or treating 😉❤
The fear of poisoned candy and razored fruit was largely overblown. I think I read that there were just a handful of such incidences across the entire country. The fear fed itself until everyone bought into it.
@@videodistro Yes...It was just a scare...There were 2 or 3 actual poisonings, but it turned out they weren't from candy a neighbor or anyone like that threw in the kids bag...Sadly the candy poisonings were all by the hands of a direct family member.
In my city, there were several cases of pins and razors found in some candy and apples.
Great time to be a kid. Loved the 70's
I lived in West View Borough, a tiny Borough just north of Pittsburgh. My dad cut holes in garbage bags for us 3 kids and stuffed them with paper. He then hung empty boxes and garbage like items from strings attached to the bags. I carried a sign that said "Litter us not West View. We took 1st place in our borough Halloween parade and won a whopping 20 bucks! Haha. We gave the extra 5 to my dad for the costume idea. 5 bucks was a lot back then! Great memories.
I was nearby in Shaler Twp., we had a fire department parade the night before, or Devil’s night as they called it. Good times.
@@randyp6370 I remember Devil's night. I was a good boy. Never participated. Lol. My best friend has taught at Shaler for 25 years I bet now.
Don't you even remember when the game show Let's Make a Deal was always a Halloween costume/cosplay party every day on daytime TV in the 1970's?
I've always loved the original "Let's Make a Deal", with Monty Hall (a fellow Canadian).
I won $100 in a Quickie Deal on one of the last Wayne Brady "Let's Make a Deal" shows to be made in Las Vegas. My Quickie Deal didn't make it to air, but the camera zoomed right in on me in the show's opening.
Halloween on a Saturday or Sunday was the greatest thing EVER. We would “Trick or Treat”from 10AM until 10PM. Lunch and Dinner was CANDY!!!!!! And you would have enough candy to last until at least Thanksgiving……………
Thanks for posting this great video it brought back many fun memories! I loved Halloween (and still do) and I feel so fortunate to have been a kid of the 1970s!
My most found Halloween memories are from the 70's. I had an older cousin who was a Mason and his lodge or troop or whatever they call it, would put on a charity Haunted House or Haunted Trail depending upon what kind of property they could have access to that year. Mom and Dad would take my older sister and I one weekend to show our support for their efforts. My elementary school would always put on Halloween carnival around the 15th of October. It was always one of the things I looked forward to each year. But the thing that really mattered was the trick-or-treating. We lived in a decent sized subdivision of several dozen homes and most of those participated in the festivities. My sister and I always made our own costumes and spent a lot of time planning them out and making theme. On the big night we would head out with the other kids from our street and hit every house in the neighborhood that had its porch lights on. Man that was fun. As the 80's began I had gotten too old for the trick-or-treating and
junior high didn't do a carnival so Halloween just wasn't as fun for me so I guess I'd have to say the 70's were my golden age for Halloween. Oh well, thanks for rekindling memories of my childhood once more.
My Dad would follow my brother and me in the station wagon as we trick or treated. We could cover a lot of ground and hit neighborhoods that were across the highway. I love my Dad. We gave him a bunch of our candy.
I love this video. It takes me back to a better time. I remeber going to our local drug store and seeing all the Ben Cooper and Collegeville boxed costumes. I see the one I had when I was 5 in your video at 6:16. The little girl in the front wearing the cat costume. It was my favorite. I remeber going with my mom and the neighborhood kids and then going with the older neighborhood kids. We walked miles through the city. The hospital used to offer to x-ray candy for free, but my mom used to just check every piece. Sadly we always had to throw out apples and popcorn balls and othe rhomemade items per sugestion of the local police. I remeber all the rumors of razor blades and poison. I remeber the true story of the "candyman" who poisoned his son on Halloween with cyanide in a pixiestix. We decorated the house every year and put speakers outside and played a disney haunted house album. I have awesome memories of Halloween. I remeber these wax harmonicas people gave out, they were cool.
I was under 10 in the mid 70s I remember every Halloween we never had bags for our candy , so we use a pillowcase. We hit every house in our neighborhood , then run home dump out our candy , switch mask and go back out again . Halloween has always been my most favorite holiday.
I remember an older couple who went above and beyond for us. The house was decorated inside and out. The man (I mean werewolf) would greet us at the door and invite us all in. The house was full of trick or treaters playing games, bobbing for apples and gobbling up the popcorn balls, caramel apples, cupcakes and punch they made for us. It was hard to leave but the neighborhood was huge and candy beckoned. Such a magical time. Thanks for the memory reel! 🎃
I loved the 70s, in grade 3 i was peter pan with 1 of those plastic masks, i won best costume in my school and got a giant chocolate bar, will never forget the best years.
Finally a Canadian commenter. I can tell cuz u say chocolate bar instead of candy bar--which sounds kinda weird.
@@eyecomeinpeace2707 yes you are correct, but i was born in scotland, just have been here a long time.
I had 3 siblings too old to trick or treat and 1 too young so my brother & I were sent out at least twice to fill those paper grocery bags. I remember how heavy they were & how exhausted I was by 9pm. But how exciting Halloween was!
I remember being Casper the friendly ghost when I went trick or treating in Richmond IN in the early 1970s. And I lived in Enterprise AL, I dressed as a clown in 1973, also there was a Halloween carnival at holly Hill school too.
Halloween carnivals have been replaced by fall festivals...more political correctness.
Haha! I also was Casper and a clown in the 70s!
My 1970's Halloween memories:
Rumors about razor blades in apples, needles in candy and pennies given out that had been heated up in skillets. Also about the Zodiac Killer being loose.
When I was in highschool, the drama kids would put on their own version of a haunted house they called, "Scream In The Dark." It was always held at one of their houses.
When I was a college student I went trick-or-treating with my theater major friends. For candy they sang Broadway show tunes. One of my friends was dressed up as King Henry VIII, and with his red hair and beard, he looked exactly like His Majesty.
Going back to the needles in candy rumors, a few hospitals in my city offered, free of charge, to X-ray "suspicious" candy.
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I had a Casper the ghost mask, still hiding in my mom attic. I remember the haunted houses and one inside church Sunday school classes. I remember one member of the church pass out at the sight of a bride doll dress in blood. Next Sunday school class I remember the room I was in had that doll stored in the corner of the room. I never went back to that church with mom or dad because it scare me so badly.
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As a kid in the 70's those plastic masks eye openings and mouth openings would give you cuts, if it was slightly warm you'd sweat and usually they would get caught on a bush and tear, by the time you were 8 or9 you stopped wearing them and made your own.
I grew up in the suburbs, when you were old enough to go with your friends and no parents we would go all over fill up two pillow cases, there were some older teenagers who would try and steal your bag, I used to put a rock in the bottom of my pillow case so I could hit them with it and get away.
There were houses you had to stop at every year no matter what, you had the houses that gave out the best treats like, little hug drinks, orange or iced tea pint cartons from a local dairy, full sized candy bars and there was a house where they gave you a fifty cent piece instead of candy, we used to bring a different mask or jacket and hit them a couple of times. Then you had the people who did up their houses, dressed in costumes and tried to scare you, those were always fun.
What sucked for me is I am tall I was as big as teenagers when I was ten and some people would try and not give me candy saying I was too old until I took off my mask and showed my face. When me and my friends got too old to do it, we used to walk the neighborhood to protect the little ones from the candy thieves, chasing them down, smack them around a little then bring the candy back, usually they would give us the pick of their bag we returned to them for doing so.
I was born in August of 1961.
We had the best time between 1967 and 1977. I just turned 60. I still remember everything from this rime period. Great memories with my younger brother and my cousins.
I remember being in Grade 4 in 1972 when the Grade 1 costume parade came through our classroom. There was this one kid who didn't wear his costume and was still in the parade. So we all booed him. Kids can be mean.
It was awesome! Staying out later trick or treating with the neighborhood friends and the dads taking beers with them.
I grew up in the 70s & early 80s and that's totally how Halloween & Trick or Treating was back then. My dad would take me Trick or Treating while my mom stayed home & passed out candy. I remember the urban legends of the razor blades but that's all it ended up being, just a story to scare kids (and parents). I remember one old lady on my Trick or Treat route that gave out quarters and dimes to us kids. We had one neighbor that always gave out apples (picked from their own apple tree), but we knew them really well, so those weren't thrown out.
I grew up in the 70's in St Louis County. We lived in a subdivision and went out all night, came home to empty bag and go out again. It was wonderful.
So fun to go back and remember a better time. Thank you!
when i was a kid in the 70s. my best time was the year my father had the a vision of all seven of his kids being a big dragon for halloween. so we got seven boxes, fasten them together in a row to make the dragon. the head was my dad with all us kids following in the suit. we all decorated the dragon to be crazy mad looking and it worked. best halloween ever. thanks
Here's a Halloween tradition very few know about that I participated in every year... Corning! For those of us who grew up around cornfields & in the midwest... you would sneak into a cornfield @ night & take corn husks, (trying not to get caught by the farmer) 😉 remove the corn, place in a paper bag then you would go out in a group and throw the corn & the front door (mostly metal during that time) it made a ghastly sound. Some neighbors would get furious & some would think it was hilarious but it was harmless fun.
Loved it! Thanks for producing such great content!
Oh yes! Prime years for me to be trick or treating in the early to mid 70s! They put such a scare into us about candy hazards that I even questioned our super kind elderly couple neighbors from around the block when the Mrs went to hand me a Tootsie Pop from their candy bowl and noticed that the wrapper had come off!! I made a big deal about it and my parents pretty much told me to not worry about it! Haha!
First amazing I watch all your videos
I remember having enough Halloween candy to last me to Easter.
Then more candy.
Proud to be a 70's kid!! In the early 70's me and my nieces would wear a white sheet like little ghosts, carry our big brown bags, and walk around the block. Even in the hood back then, we would knock on doors and almost everyone had candy. In the late 70's, we moved into another home and it was much better, i was old enough to go with other kids/friends and get out of the neighborhood for more candy✌🏾😋. I do remember the rumors about razor blades in candy even a rumor about syringe needles. One year(either 74 or 75)my older sister took us trick or treating and told us not to put our hands in the bags until we came home.
@Jack Mercer You might be talking about Sigmund the sea monster.🤷🏾
First time I remember going Trick-Or-Treating was in 1976 when I was 2. My dad dressed me up in an old red jacket and a plastic devil mask. All I remember was walking around the neighborhood in the dark, having to go to people's doors, say something strange to the people (to my 2-year old mind), and have people put candy in a plastic jack-o-lantern bucket I was carrying. The next year was better as I was old enough to understand what it was all about.
I wish they bring back those costumes! Everything was innocent and simple back then!
Halloween is my favorite holiday and growing up in the 70s was a blast during this time. We would have parties at school with treats our mothers would make and didn't have to worry too much about people wanting to do anything bad. Our hometown also had an annual "Boo House" usually put on by the Jaycees. We always went at least once. I miss those days as they were golden memories of my youth.
I was born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska (February 1971). By Halloween, we'd always have a lot of snow and it would be close to sub-zero temperatures. Did we go out trick or treating in that kind of weather? Heck yeah we did! Most kids just put a parka on over their costumes. Those kind of kids had a parent or a parent of a friend drive them around the neighborhood until their pillow case was full or until it hit bedtime. My mom was a single mother and we didn't have a car back then. I usually got a costume that had enough room to be worn over my snowsuit. When we got home, my mom didn't take away my candy, I got to keep it in my drawer. I thought it was so great! I remember all those scary movies too. My mom let me watch them all (probably when I was a bit too young). I still love being scared.
Cool! I lived in Ohio most my life, I can't remember it snowing but I remember cold miserable rains and it was cold enough to see your breath, mom would beg candy from us - with a guilty trip on board, and my eldest son would trick or treat and then set up a candy shop to sale us his candy🎃 I think he got 21 lbs of candy one year I had a picture of him laying over the candy on his back wearing a scream costume.
Many of these photos could have come from my albums! Thanks for the memories!
I was one of those 70s kids. When you could still go out at night for Halloween (in the community I live in now trick or treating is from 1 to 4 in the afternoon! How sad.) It was cool and crisp and autumn-y at Halloween back in the 70s. Of course that also meant that sometimes you had to wear a sweater over your costume, but I'd rather wear a sweater and have it smell like autumn than have it feel like summer.
We used to get those plastic masks which were awesome because there were so many options but they were SO UNPLEASANT to wear - you couldn't breathe and your face would sweat.
My Mom told us which houses we could go to but didn't go with us. We would get a pretty good haul and then come back and my brothers and cousins and I would trade.
Loved this! Definitely brought back memories from my early childhood.
Mom would take my little brother and I Trick or Treating while dad gave out candy. That was strictly his job. He loved doing it. A week before Halloween he would go to the store and buy an insane amount of candy. Most of it chocolate and always full-size.
I’m so happy that I grew up during this time. Trick or treating was so much fun! Wish I still had my Ben Cooper Frankenstein costume with mask. Kids these days don’t know what they missed!
It was a very magical time.The video hit it right on.Haunted houses,movies,plastic face masks that made you sweat.Popcorn balls,Candied apple's and so much more👍
Thanks for the nostalgic video trip back to my childhood I subscribed to see further content from you