When you went Trick or Treating, what were your favorite treats? Mine were the Hershey minitures, Butterfingers, M&Ms, and 3 Musketeers. Don't give me any candy corn or Tootsie Rolls.
Halloween memories
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rburg
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Back then it was Baby Ruth. These days I'll settle for anything I can steal or trade for. At Saturday's trick or treat at the campground, I managed some Reeses cups from my son's MIL and then my son handed over some M&Ms with peanuts (male M&Ms). All I had to trade was the lousy stuff my wife buys (things she likes), Milky Way, 3 Musketeers, Snickers, and Twix. It gets to the point late in the trick or treating where we move to a "handful" for each kid. Better than eating it ourselves.
Back in the past, we grew to the point where it just wasn't fun to go out. My dad liked it because he could go inside and watch TV, leaving us to our own devices. It usually would result in me walking down the road to my buddy's house. By about 9 the only ones out would be the big kids, trying for new record candy hauls. My buddy was really generous. He'd put a handful of ice cubes in their bags. Back then everyone used a grocery bag with the top rolled down a couple of turns. The ice would melt and dissolve the bottom of the bag. Pretty evil, but fun to bet on where you'd start seeing candy all over the ground. I wonder what kind of trouble he's getting into these days. That was 50 years ago.
Back in the past, we grew to the point where it just wasn't fun to go out. My dad liked it because he could go inside and watch TV, leaving us to our own devices. It usually would result in me walking down the road to my buddy's house. By about 9 the only ones out would be the big kids, trying for new record candy hauls. My buddy was really generous. He'd put a handful of ice cubes in their bags. Back then everyone used a grocery bag with the top rolled down a couple of turns. The ice would melt and dissolve the bottom of the bag. Pretty evil, but fun to bet on where you'd start seeing candy all over the ground. I wonder what kind of trouble he's getting into these days. That was 50 years ago.
carpriver
US Veteran
As kids we trick or treated in the same 6 or 8 blocks of our neighborhood, this was the late 50s early 60s. there was a few houses that would set up cider and donuts on the front porch, people gave out popcorn balls, homemade fudge, apples, a few people mostly older folks would give out real Candy bars. this was before straight pins in candy, or perverts.
when in my early teens we would tie a dummy( not a dumb friend) in a tree and when a car came by push it out of the tree, and watch the drivers reaction. or throw water balloons at people from our tree. One year my dad had to come get me from the police station, we scared a old lady with the dummy. When I was a kid you treat or treated after dark.
when in my early teens we would tie a dummy( not a dumb friend) in a tree and when a car came by push it out of the tree, and watch the drivers reaction. or throw water balloons at people from our tree. One year my dad had to come get me from the police station, we scared a old lady with the dummy. When I was a kid you treat or treated after dark.
I guess most kid's favorite holiday was Christmas or maybe their birthday. Not me. My favorite holiday from the time I was 8 years old until I was 14 was far and away halloween.
No store bought costumes available or desired. I'd come up with my own costume. Usually and old felt hat baggy shirt and pants and rub some burnt cork on my face to simulate a beard and go as a hobo. Once my mom wrapped me up in gauze and I was mummy.
there were about 12 or 13 kids my age in my neighborhood and we always had a blast. It was a magical time that I will NEVER forget.
To answer the question in the op my favorite was always the homemade popcorn balls. It was back in the 50s and well before the sick-os started putting poison and razor blade in the treats. We had 4 houses in our neighborhood that gave them out every year and I always made sure I hit them first before they ran out.
THOSE were THE days.
No store bought costumes available or desired. I'd come up with my own costume. Usually and old felt hat baggy shirt and pants and rub some burnt cork on my face to simulate a beard and go as a hobo. Once my mom wrapped me up in gauze and I was mummy.
there were about 12 or 13 kids my age in my neighborhood and we always had a blast. It was a magical time that I will NEVER forget.
To answer the question in the op my favorite was always the homemade popcorn balls. It was back in the 50s and well before the sick-os started putting poison and razor blade in the treats. We had 4 houses in our neighborhood that gave them out every year and I always made sure I hit them first before they ran out.
THOSE were THE days.
NFrameFred
Member
I knew the houses in the neighborhood with the old folks and made it a point to show them a little interest and kindness through the year. Never failed there were three or four houses I would visit and there was always a special treat bag for my group with home-made goodies that not everyone got.
Not much does seem so anymore, but the holiday just doesn't seem the same these days.
Not much does seem so anymore, but the holiday just doesn't seem the same these days.
Snickers and Butterfingers, don't give me any of them popcorn balls.
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James
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James
I'm with carpriver.............
Popcorn Balls, Fresh Fudge, Candied Apples, any home made stuff..........dang, I'm getting hungry!!!
Popcorn Balls, Fresh Fudge, Candied Apples, any home made stuff..........dang, I'm getting hungry!!!
bobsdad
US Veteran
We covered our neighborhood in the 1950's
We waited all year for it. Gangs of kids actually running from door to door to get as much loot as possible before we had to be home.
I can remember some really great candy, and of course, apples in those days. We did not even think about perverts or contaminated candy bars. The worst thing that could happen was someone dumping loose popcorn into your bag. It would get stuck on some of the candy which was a bummer.
I remember one year, running along a sidewalk, cutting across it and stubbing my sneaker clad big toe on a water pipe cover. One of those flat topped ones that stuck up along the sidewalks. I split it open real good. But that didn't stop me. I limped along until finished. It took a long time to heal up.
One thing I can't quite remember completely is a kind of noise maker my Dad showed me how to make when I was probably about 8 or 9. I think it was a length of store string somehow attached to a disc of wood or maybe it was a very large button from Mom's stash. You would hold it flat on a window and then pull "something" down the string and it would make a kind of roaring noise on the window that permeated the whole house. Anyone remember anything like that? Details?
It was a fun night, we'll never see again around these parts.
We waited all year for it. Gangs of kids actually running from door to door to get as much loot as possible before we had to be home.
I can remember some really great candy, and of course, apples in those days. We did not even think about perverts or contaminated candy bars. The worst thing that could happen was someone dumping loose popcorn into your bag. It would get stuck on some of the candy which was a bummer.
I remember one year, running along a sidewalk, cutting across it and stubbing my sneaker clad big toe on a water pipe cover. One of those flat topped ones that stuck up along the sidewalks. I split it open real good. But that didn't stop me. I limped along until finished. It took a long time to heal up.
One thing I can't quite remember completely is a kind of noise maker my Dad showed me how to make when I was probably about 8 or 9. I think it was a length of store string somehow attached to a disc of wood or maybe it was a very large button from Mom's stash. You would hold it flat on a window and then pull "something" down the string and it would make a kind of roaring noise on the window that permeated the whole house. Anyone remember anything like that? Details?
It was a fun night, we'll never see again around these parts.
Evil Dog
US Veteran
Ohhhh...... fresh fudge. Yes !!!!!!!!
My favorite Halloween story isn't mine - It's my wife's.
When she was a kid they lived in Nashville.
Her dad got some needed time off.
They loved The Smokies - (Still do)
Dad gives them a choice - Trick-or-Treating -or- a weekend in the mountains.
After some debate she and her brother voted for a weekend in The Smokies with some fine tent living.
They ALWAYS cooked outside when camping --- But, because of a late start they checked into a motel and ate in a restaurant in Gatlinburg that Halloween night instead.
While they were eating their dinner a few kids came by, in costume, and were rewarded handsomely for their hearty *Trick-or-Treat!*
They zipped back to the motel - Mom made them up with some lipstick and stuff as an Indian and a kitty. They took the pillowcases and hit the shops.
She still talks about the pillowcases FILLED with REAL CANDY BARS and assorted wonders.
Ya never know!
When she was a kid they lived in Nashville.
Her dad got some needed time off.
They loved The Smokies - (Still do)
Dad gives them a choice - Trick-or-Treating -or- a weekend in the mountains.
After some debate she and her brother voted for a weekend in The Smokies with some fine tent living.
They ALWAYS cooked outside when camping --- But, because of a late start they checked into a motel and ate in a restaurant in Gatlinburg that Halloween night instead.
While they were eating their dinner a few kids came by, in costume, and were rewarded handsomely for their hearty *Trick-or-Treat!*
They zipped back to the motel - Mom made them up with some lipstick and stuff as an Indian and a kitty. They took the pillowcases and hit the shops.
She still talks about the pillowcases FILLED with REAL CANDY BARS and assorted wonders.
Ya never know!
Pearson's Nut Goodies or Nut Rolls were my favorite catches in the 50's
mg357
Absent Comrade
chocolate and lots of it.
1morethan8
US Veteran, Absent Comrade
Halloween should be the last Saturday in October.
