That was the good old days, when we used pillow cases for all the candy we got! 🎃

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 🤔

I was one of those kids trick or treating in the 70”s! It was still a magical time of innocent fun!✨

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 loved being a 70s kid. I was born in 64,but by the 70s, I was old enough to be aware of things.

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

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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. 🎃💀👹👽

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 🎃

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!

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! ♥️

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.

My “last” Halloween was in 1970 when I made, and wore, a Barnabas Collins costume. Worked on it for weeks!

I used to get my costume from Woolworth / Woolco. They were lower priced there!! Thanx for the good ole days. 🎃👻

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

I remember kids going trick or treating for Unicef collecting money for children overseas.

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???

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!

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!

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....

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.

Going out in KISS make-up was a common thing at the time, also. I did it a few times myself.

This brings back so many memories. Those plastic masks were awful!!

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 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.

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....

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!

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!

AHH. Those were the good ole days! I do remember😊

I sure miss being a kid, being 60 sucks lol, drs appointments, blood pressure, diet. The list just keeps going....

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 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

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 a kid in the 70’s. Our neighborhood had a costume judging contest. I actually was a winner one year. Great memories.

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.

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.

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!!

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 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.

I remember a lot of these costumes and also the costume parades and parties in elementary school were so exciting. 🎃👻😍

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 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 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.

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 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!

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 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.

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!

I remember back then when some guys would dress up as a cowboy, a policeman, a construction worker, and an Indian for Halloween. No wait a second, that was the Village People.

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 remember Halloween in the 70's very well. I had so much fun. We were poor & we dressed up in whatever we could think of, in the cloths in our momma's & dad's closets. Or in our closet, picking out the strangest things. I'd dress up as a clown or a Hobo. We took large brown paper bags or a pillow case to collect our candy in. Me & my kid sister & friends would hit ever house in the neighborhood. And we'd go to other neighborhoods till it got about 10:pm. We'd rack up in candy. I liked to kid & joke around, my friends would say, I got a Hershey bar, or I got a Reese's, and I'd always say, I got a Rock. Just like on Charley Brown Great Pumpkin. Every one would laugh every time. We'd usually have enough candy to last till Christmas.

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.

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 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.

My best memory was a house that had you come in an have hot donuts a and coca, what a wonderful time. Life was so simple back then.

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 can still remember going to Kmart to pick out a costume, I know it sounds weird but I loved how the plastic smelled.

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.

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. 🧡🎃👻🖤

I remember my mom making us wear our coats every year no matter how nice it was out. She wouldn't even let us wear the coats under our costumes... It was a tradition in our small town to kidnap an outhouse and put it on the main crossroads in town. they started having a hard time finding outhouses so they brought big round bales of hay instead. One year it was lit on fire and another year the dragged in a dead cow. All the windows were soaped or egged but my mom's shop. Every Halloween I painted a Halloween themed scene and nobody messed it up. Now that little town has a stick up its butt and nobody can be out after 7pm on Halloween.

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.

Great time to be a kid. Loved the 70's

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👍

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.

I remember going to Kmart and trying to get the best of what was left of those boxed costumes (my mother waited until they were on sale last minute). I never liked the way the masks felt on my face. The eye holes were rarely in the right spot and my breath made everything moist inside. Lol. I preferred the homemade ones, good times.

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.

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. 🤡👻🎃🤖🧛🧙🦇🦉🕷️🐱🐺🧁🍭🍬🍎

Thank you so much Recollection Road for uploading this great video, I appreciate it!

First amazing I watch all your videos

It was awesome! Staying out later trick or treating with the neighborhood friends and the dads taking beers with them.

My mom dressed as a ''kitten'' and went with us one year, with a shot glass, we had to take her home before we finished the first block. LOL We would haul home pillow cases FULL, when we moved to the apartment, we hit the Apt Complexes then the neighborhoods across the street. HUGE Candy Hauls. my mom was not pleased.

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.

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!

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 was born in 1980, but we still did costume parades in elementary school. I had completely forgotten about them until this video.

I see there was one or two of the costumes that I wore at Halloween on here. Here in Oklahoma we didn't worry about razor blades nor pins in our candy and we got homemade popcorn balls and other treats and Mom would sit in the car waiting for us. It was in the 90's we worried about razor blades and pins. I was handing out candy at that time. I'm handing out full size candy bars this year like I did last year. Really enjoyed your video and it brought back memories of the good old days of Halloween.

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

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

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 love love this channel !!!!

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……………

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 had awesome memories of Halloween and tricks or treating with my dad as he took me around the neighborhoods as my mom stayed home and passed out candy then they switched off as my mom took me out to another location of town.

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!!! ✌

Loved Halloween in the 1970s. So much fun.

Hay rides on wagons drawn by a tractor or pair of horses were always my favorite thing during Halloween as I grew up. The hint of crispness in the evening air as the hay wagon drew us down the dirt lane toward the High School where we would all have a bonfire and Home Coming Football game. That is the Halloween for me.

The George Washington costume at 7:25! Best one! The Halloween party at school was a huge deal. The class made and decorated most of it. We'd parade around the school then go back to class for cupcakes, punch, and treat bags. I wonder if they still do that? Some years a kid in the neighborhood would make their own haunted house in a garage or something and we'd pay a nickel to go in. lol

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 was born 1967 I enjoyed the 70s and 80s trick or treating 😉❤

I grew up in the country. My mom made us our costumes and took us to our cousin’s house for T or T. Later on in life, I love to fill small individual candy bags for the kids. I LOVE THIS TIME OF YEAR…..more so then Xmas

Many of these photos could have come from my albums! Thanks for the memories!

By '74 I was done trick or treating, but I remember having a lot of fun doing so before then. Still a lot of homemade costumes and it seemed like we did it from about sundown until 9:oo or so. I grew up in New Orleans East and it was still a great neighborhood then. I do remember Dad inspecting all of the candy (and it was a LOT!) to make sure that nothing appeared to have been tampered with. We never had any issues, just a lot of fun with friends!

Halloween In the 70's was Magical! I had the best neighborhood! 13 of us all ages and we all got along and I just wish for just 10 minutes if my sons whom are older now could experience the magic! Also back then the feeling in life was simple and I believe that is why is was a magical time!