My brother Jeff and I hit up our own home, Mom caught it and asked us why, It's because we both loved our Mom's cooking and cookies. My family are long gone and I miss them, thank you for the memories we had parties and made a party decorating.😪 I miss them and those days.
I remember going out with friends and not getting home until well after 9. No parental supervision necessary. The last time I lived in a neighborhood where trick or treating was still a thing, most kids were accompanied by adults and the trick or treating was pretty much over by 8 o'clock. I also remember wax-based candies, not so much whistles but the little soda bottles that had Kool-Aid like liquid in them. And of course candy cigarettes. We didn't have much money, especially at that time of year with back to school and birthday expenses happening, so our costumes were always homemade. I also liked gutting and carving up the pumpkin. Good old days indeed.
The last candy cigarettes I saw was over 30 years ago. Where I live, I haven't seen a lot of trick or treating in years. Halloween parties probably replaced t or t.
@@MisterMikeTexas I see some comments where people are saying you can still get candy cigarettes but I'm with you, I haven't seen them in years. It's sad parties have replaced trick or treating. I think it's parents not wanting to walk with them but unwilling to let them go with friends. I won't pass judgement as far as not letting your child go out unsupervised, but the kids really are missing out. Few things are more enjoyable than emptying your pillow case and setting your favorite treats aside.
You see the candy cigarettes down here in GA. Not all stores carry them. I know Fred's department stores used to have them, but most of the Fred Stores have closed down now. Some of the dollar stores have them.
That was the only time of year I ever got those types of sweets. My mother was very strict about the candy I got to have, but she made an exception for Halloween.
The best Halloween I ever experienced was in 1968, I was 7 years old living in Harvard, Illinois. I think of " it's the great pumpkin Charlie brown " when reminiscing of that time of my life
I’m the same age, and grew up in the small town of Oglesby, Illinois. What a magical time and place in which to grow up. Autumn and Halloween were absolutely the best. Cheers!
@ John Ward- watching "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!" at Halloween is a yearly ritual for me. But I miss the Dolly Madison cupcakes commercials.
Growing up in the 1960s, my father said hundreds of trick or treaters would come to his house. When I started trick or treating in the late 90s, around twenty to thirty trick or treaters would come to my house, but by the time I stopped trick or treating in 2008, my house only received three or four visitors. For the last four or five years, my house hasn’t received even one tricker or treater. That’s how much Halloween has changed.
@@robertsmith1865 As a religious person, I don’t think Halloween is evil. Halloween is about fantasy and make believe. Real evil comes from people, not vampires.
I remember being Casper! It was a more innocent time on the surface, but fond memories of trick-or-treating remain. Thank you for the collection of photos...they sure bring back memories.
I'm a child of the sixties and my Mom always made my costumes. They were so unique. Dad got first crack at the loot when we returned home. I kept the bag of candy under my bed and ate in the night sometimes. I have the silver fillings in my mouth to prove I didn't brush after. lol. We would dress up in the afternoon in elementary school and have a little parade around the school dressed in our outfits. We would stencil Halloween figures on our picture window in our house. And made the other decorations by hand. I'm glad I grew up in the 60's. Thanks for this video. Brings back memories.
The late-50s/early-60s was my Halloween golden age. It was amazing. Dad used to bring home these floppy rubber masks that fit all the way over your head. They were super grotesque. We would make our costumes around those. It was so magical when doors would open and nice ladies would give you stuff. Sometimes the ladies would be dressed as witches. Loved that. We used department store shopping bags that had been painted with cheap elementary-school-type watercolors. It was really spooky to go wandering around by ourselves and seeing other little monsters doing the same. It was so amazing to get home finally and see what you had. I remember getting a Pez dispenser one year. I still love that candy. It's funny how vivid all the memories of smells still are; of the rubbery mask etc.
As a kid of the 60's, I remember never buying a costume...we made our own. We went trick or treating on our own (no parents) and filled a pillow case in about 2 hours. Sometimes, it got so heavy, we had to head home and dump it and go back out again. No one went out until it was dark. For whatever reason, trick or treating didn't start until around 6. I remember the wax lips, harmonica, and a black mustache. Candy bars were mostly full size, and bubble gum was a favorite. Houses were not all decorated to be ghoulish and haunted. Streets were packed full and everyone gave out tons of candy. My mom even use to make bags of popcorn to give out. Man....those were the days:)
Man, we RAN home from school, changed into our costumes, and were back out and trick or treating in a flash. Stayed out till dinner, and once in a while were able to go out for another hour or so. Not too many people had candy left after 8 pm or so anyway.
This is an incidental memory, but my neighborhood elementary school would also have a fall carnival that was absolutely magical. The school would rent a few small carnival rides and a moonwalk. There were booths of games with cheap but very interesting prizes like the woven ‘Chinese handcuffs’ that you couldn’t pull your fingers out of. A hayride, A cakewalk and a makeshift theater showing scary films were always a special treat.
Ah yes, the cakewalk. I won the cakewalk in 1965 at my elementary school. I got a half dozen cup cakes as a prize. I was so happy. I went home and my mom reminded me to share them. I didn't. I ate all of them and didn't share with my 4 siblings. My mom was upset but no regrets!!!
@@Cryo837 The public elementary school around the corner from my house had an annual fair and the cakewalk was one of the main attractions. I never won but one year my cousin did and he was so excited he ran home with his cake...and you guessed it. Face first into the box as he tripped just feet away from his house. The Catholic school I attended had an annual fair as well, complete with a Ferris wheel. Sometime in the early 70s both schools gave up on the fairs. That was a shame. It was a good way for people to get together and the kids always had a blast. The cakewalk. what a cool memory.
When I was in elementary school in the late 50's, early 60's, every elementary school had their own carnival. It was simple stuff by today's standards, but whole families went and had so much fun. Cake walks for homemade cakes, home canned food and baked treats for prizes in the general store booth, unsupervised trick or treating in the neighborhood. We trusted our neighbors back then and weren't afraid of everything. Since we lived a block from school, we had tons of trick or treaters. One night we ran out of candy and they just kept coming. My mother first gave away all our fruit and our own candy, then she made a big batch of popcorn balls and wrapped them in waxed paper. Where I live now, I have a really long dark drive, and it's a good ways between neighbors, so the number of little visitors ranges between one and five. If they go out at all, they want easy pickings where the houses are close to the street and close together. If anyone comes, it's almost always someone I know, stopping to let their kid come to the door because they know it's safe.
I swear I can taste Smarties candies watching this. The photos triggered some kind of olfactory reaction along with the taste buds. That specific Sweet Tart Chalkie Smartie taste. Great Memories.
When you mentioned the smell of the plastic mask you hig it spot on that is one thing that sticks in my mind. And your hair getting tangled on the rubber band stapled to the mask
I was born in 1961, watching this video brings back a lot of memories! I remember as a young boy going out trick or treating in my costume and wearing the plastic mask carrying either a big plastic trick or treat bag or pail, those were the best times! I remember the candy cigarettes, wax bottles, root beer barrels, atomic fireballs, candy necklaces, candy dots, salt water taffy! Also, the 60's music was the best music!
Awesome. My mom was born the same year although she only told me about the Halloween memories she had as an adult dressing up at work and with my sister and I when we were kids. Now, I dress up for Halloween and other holidays at work since I didn't really get to dress up much as a kid and I even dressed as Piglet for Halloween 2020 since that marked 40 years of my mother being a high school graduate and when I went to her alma mater in second grade I saw a Winnie the Pooh play that day.
You mean All Saints Day. 😇 November 2 is All Souls Day which is celebrated more in the US today as "Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)", which is a Mexican holiday.
I remember going out on Halloween in the 70's, it was wonderful. We would take a pillow case and dump it out at home mid evening and then go out for more. Great time to grow up.
My father had to frisk us before we went out, to make sure we didn't have any soap, firecrackers, or toilet paper. Of course the night before was Mischief Night and we definitely weren't allowed out then!
I was Casper the friendly Ghost most of the time, or a hobo.....pillow case in hand going off in the early evening with my 3 brothers and sister and 8000 other kids without care in the world......parents didn't worry there were kids and parents everywhere before all the craziness we have now ......... sigh
I think around fall 1971 or so, our class, the news, and maybe even psa's started advising parents and us to check our bags when we got home. Parents were advised to throw out anything that looked suspect, and to only keep wrapped articles. There were rumors and reports of booby trapped candies and treats with razor blades in the center or poison of some sort. Not sure how much of that was true, but times were already changing as the 70s got underway. After 1980, I don't remember a lot of trick or treaters visiting our house. And I was 11 the last time I participated in the mid 70s.
I love this. Took me back in time. I was born in 62 and I remember all of it. I had one of those plastic costumes with the face mask that you could not see out of. Love the orange harmonica, we would eat that and it did not taste very good. I remember the red lips too. We would make piles and seperate the candy and even trade. Thank you for making this!
I just LOVE your videos! All the photos bring back sooo many memories, and the ADS---omg! Soo very cool to see those vintage ads, too. Thank you for the trip down memory lane!
What a great time to be a kid! I lived in New Orleans and we had a local Horror show hosted by a guy named Morgus the Magnificent. He was supposed to be a mad scientist. They would always put on a special program for Halloween. Some fond trick or treat memories. Thanks again for all you do! 😊
The 60s were my pre-teen and teen years - best time ever! We lived in a VA Hospital a couple miles from town, so it was like a gated community but with about 40 school-age kids. Everyone knew every body’s kid so we were free-range Trick or Treaters. It all started when the street lights came on. We always made our own costumes-the plastic costumes were for the “little kids”. There were 6 kids in our family so mom had little time for making costumes, she helped us, but by and large it was our own project. My sister was the best at it. Her Cousin It costume from the Adams Family TV show was the best. She spent hours unraveling ropes to use as “hair” that reached from her head to the ground. We had no masks, just face paint and other special effects. Since it was northern Wyoming, we often trudged through snow or blizzards and our costumes were covered up by coats, boots, scarves and often falling apart from being wet. No problem though because at 8pm the Director of the Hospital would host a wonderful party and we would watch Charlie Brown while getting warm with hot cocoa and eating home-made treats. Wonderful memories of a very special time!
In the NYC area Halloween in the 60s also meant collecting for Unicef, the newly formed UN children's fund. We had our bag of candy and also our collection cup that we would then turn over in school the next day. God only knows where that money eventually wound up but at the time we kids really thought we were doing something great. Also....the wax harmonicas!!! Thanks for that memory!!! A great fear-free time to grow up!
We also collected in NC. Hopefully back then it was being used in a good way. Now I don't give to those charities. Only very local ones like my local fire, church, etc.
I dressed as Casper for my first Halloween, but since I was 4 or 5, it had a plastic skull cap with that rubber band strap, which inevitably broke. I do remember that other Casper costume and that mask, though! Kind of creepy and Casper never looked scary in the cartoons. But, all in all, what a great time to be a kid.
The oldest kids walked with the youngest with few parents around. I remember droves of kids and decorated houses and lots of candy of all sorts, or popcorn balls or fudge. It was scary and fun as a kid. Now no kids come to my neighborhood so I eat candy and watch scary movies.
That band was very flimsy! My Dad had repaired my mask by replacing the broken band by cutting a large rubber band in half, then stapling it. I still have another mask that has this strange thin elastic that wore out and is very stretched out.
@@sageredowl8506 Yes! Maybe the "once a year" notion discouraged our parents? One year, I slept in my smock as I knew I would have to put it away for a whole year and wanted to extend the holiday!
My first trick or treating memory, guessing I was 5 in 1967, it was rainy, my mom gave me a paper bag, when I got home my mom said "let's see what you have David" the bottom of the bag was gone and I had nothing. I began to cry, my sister's were so nice, the all gave me some of their candy and everything was fine.
I remember I had Nightmare the horse from the Casper cartoon in 1964 . My brother and I would try fill as much as the bag as we could . We were living in Riverdale Maryland at the time. Man it just seems like forever ago . This was a really good episode.
I had a casper costume with the plastic mask. It had a lite coating of flourescent on it so that you could hold it under a light then it would glow in the dark for awhile. It the late 50s I remember my older brother having a Herman the mouse costume. Anyone remember Herman the mouse?
I enjoyed Halloween in the 1960's! My two favourite costumes were Spot The Fire Dog, that had a pajama costume, in which I slept in way past Halloween; and Casper The Friendly Ghost. I'd go trick-or-treating with my two older brothers, sometimes catching up with friends from school. Once home for the night, the three of us would eat and trade our candy haul. Then, if November 1 fell on a school day, it was Halloween candy for dessert in lunch bags and lunch boxes, and more candy trading. Before Halloween, the elementary schools I went to had Halloween carnivals and classroom Halloween parties. Each kid would get a mini-bag filled with candy. My personal favorite were the Dum Dum Suckers. I'd hear stories about some more affluent neighborhoods that gave out better candy. I also heard stories about "Mexican Halloween" in Tijuana, Mexico ( I grew up in San Diego, CA), which, of course, was actually Dia de los Muertos. I loved being a young kid in the 1960's!😉🎃👻👽
I remember one year that Casper costume was super popular. We had Halloween parties at school and that year there were three or four "Caspers" just in my class.
Halloween in the 60s was the best memory of my childhood, I remember shoppers world, store bought costumes, yes the smell, t or t until 10pm, multiple brown grocery bags of candy, still my fav holiday but glad I was a kid in the 60s, not the same for kids today.
Cool. I remember walking all over the neighborhood with my brother and friends. We made stops at home to empty our big bags full of candy onto the kitchen floor for sorting. Adults were so kind and would feign horror at our costumes.. The freedom to be out and about at night safely is long gone and I feel sorry for the kids today.
Loved Halloween in the 60's and 70's. We went trick'r treating in our hometown then went to the town my dad was from so we loaded up. It was the best night of the year
Remember Halloween well, back in the 60’s. Also, remember the Halloween carnivals at our elementary school ! The treasure chest, bobbing for apples, and MUCH more !! Memories I treasure ❣️ Enjoy your videos, you do an outstanding job.
I got to bob for apples at a Halloween party for us teens in 1984, at the piano players house from our church. They lived in a beautiful upscale house by the city park. A good memory for me. It wasn't easy to get an apple out, but I got some out.
I was a kid in the 60s . All my friends had home made costumes . My mother worked and brought me and my brother and i had store bought one it was such a hit. But in reality the stay at home moms costumes were really better. We had those two. And most of the time we got home made goodies. My mom bought big candy bars too hand out. Also some of the old ladies would give us penny's or sometimes nickles.
Don’t forget the timeless “It’s The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown” premiered in 1966! I watched it in the 1960s as a kid and still watch it today. Much love to Charles Schultz (may you rest in eternal peace!) and his wife Jeanie who keeps the memory alive for future generations!🎃🎃🎃❤️❤️❤️
OH! The joy of Halloween back then! All the excitement of that day as a kid came back just watching this. The freedom of being out at night with friends. The friendliness of the neighbors. And of course the tales of who lived in the homes that kept their lights off to make us think no one was home! Pure sweet fun. Thanks for this vid.
I was born in mid 70's. So I guess my memories of Halloween started in 1980ish. I remember the sidewalks being jammed packed full of kids. We went out without parent supervision. We had the vinyl suit and plastic masks...I had Holly Hobby and Raggedy Anne, of course our mom saved every decoration from past holidays, so my costumes were used but I didn't care. It was a great memory having options to choose from, or use pieces of things to come up with our own. We had pillowcase bags and candy cigarettes and waxed lips too. Our Halloween always started at 7 and I remember staring out the window in hopes to find the first person out so we could rush at mom to let us start then too. I remember hearing stories about poison and razor blades, so mom and dad told us to not eat anything until they inspected it. Nobody was bloody or gory or tried to jump out in front of cars...I think that added to the degradation of Halloween as well. I remember mom would throw a Halloween party in our basement. She had those paper mache orange and black streamers everywhere and fold out pumpkin decorations. Since I have been a parent, my kids enjoy our small towns' street booth trick or treat experience. We live near 2 small towns that both do downtown street trick or treating and they stagger it an hour apart from each other so us farmers can hit both towns. It is so much fun! My favorite part is going into the older businesses like the book store to get a treat (usually a book and some candy) or another store may have cider or cocoa. The fire department always opens it's doors for hotdogs, sodas and chips in one town and a big church does the same for the other town. There are games, costume contests, and another church puts on a movie, like the Lorax or something. Then after street treating, we hit area homes because they are expecting kids. We know this by the porch light being on. My kids come home with huge bags of stuff! I enjoy watching them get excited!
Oh how i miss those days . As a child I had every paper cut out . my mom would get mad because i never took them out of the bag .I saved all my paper cut outs some still with the price tags on them and opened them this year 2021 and put them up . I did not care of the value of some of the paper cut outs and though why now at age 58 did i save them . so i opened every one up i must of had 50 or so . and put them up on the walls . like the olden days . they look awesome and gives me memories of Halloween in the 1960s . i even have the paper cut outs that my mom had opened to decorate with . We had no price limit on how many pumpkins we wanted or our what we wanted to be for Halloween it was a wonderful time . I wish i could go back .
Quite a surprise that Halloween in the 1960s is now up. I wonder if you read my comment in the 1950s halloween video on halloween in the (decade). By the way here is one important tradition of halloween that originated in the 1960's. "Its The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" made its tv release in 1966. Tv adaptation of Charles Schultz's Peanuts comic strip. 7 years after the "Great Pumpkin" element of the Peanuts franchise was introduced, it became an expectation to see Linus waiting for this mysterious Great Pumpkin every year since 1959. The 1966 special was the first time the gag was introduced on tv. Keep up the Halloween in the decades Recollection Road. I want to keep seeing more of the changes of Halloween over the years.
You have made my Halloween. I will share this with my brothers and sister. Probably my twin and I went out first around 1959, with adults. I also enjoyed your 50s video very much. This is a wonderful gift you give us.
Growing up in the West Side of Manhattan, NYC we would trick or treat in friends apartment building and on the Street corner. A party would be held at school . What memories.
I STILL have a Halloween treat that I got while trick or treating in the seventies. My friends and I knocked on a door while trick or treating, and a man came out with a Polaroid camera. He had our group huddle together so we could fit in the photo. After he took the photo, he gave me the Polaroid. I've had it ever since!
I love the music. remember buying my costume at the drugstore or dimestore and it ws so easy to pick out what box you wanted. Not to many people made their costumes where i was. some people went to the magic store to buy a mask. My oldest brother made a computer out of a giant washing machine box and it had lights on it that you can make blink from the inside, it ws really quite nice. They came out with that movie, "the computer who wore tennis shoes" that year. It was such a fun safe time and the culture just did not promote anything evil, so it was not scary. After 10pm we would get our windows egged by the crazies or out trees covered in toilet paper and that was kind of wild, but we enjoyed the vandalism of our homes. Nobody called the cops. How do we get back to a time when things weree innocent when there is so much garbage on the internet that decays so many minds? Just dont know. We were all on the same page back then, and that really helped keep us away from brainwashing, at least during the 60's.
I have a 1964 Disney album, "Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of The Haunted House". Sounds date back to 1927. It's a very good, scarey sounds, album. My favorite parts are Screams & Groans, and Fuses & Explosions
We had that, too! My brothers and I used it for sound effects in our "haunted house" constructed in our basement usually during the month of August. Summer vacation was an eternity back then and school started back after Labor Day. There were real seasons back then, too. When the leaves started changing and the days were shorter and cooler, the anticipation of the most wonderful, magical night of the year began! Oh! To be a kid again in 1970s Newark DE.
Lol I had that too and would play it every year at least two weeks before trick or treat and me and my sister would work on our haunted bedroom and make my mom walk through it in the dark. Of course one of us would reach out from underneath thebed to grab her foot! lol
I recall having one of those skeleton costumes @ 2:42 in the mid 60s. Ah, I can almost smell the wonderful odor of a candle charring the inside lid of the Jack-o-lantern. And be sure to roast those pumkin seeds!🎃
My earliest memory of my first trick-or-treating outing was with the teenage neighbor girls who sometimes babysat me and my two siblings. We went with a group of young people and had a magical blast.
Candy corn was very popular at Halloween. I never ate the CC whole. I would always bite off the tip which was white, then the middle which was orange, then finally the last section which was yellow. Not sure why I did it just a habit.
As a kid, I never liked CC and would give the little bags of it away to my brother & sister. Some of the paper Halloween treat bags would also have some loose CC in them. Well, as an adult, I now love CC and get many bags of the Brach's brand! 😋
One of my best memories of Halloween was back in the 60s. Just before Halloween, like a month, I had ordered the Famous Monsters of Hollywood Makeup kit. I read over the book that came with it for doing the makeup, and that Saturday was Halloween. I took and made up all of my friends. We were all the Monsters. Best Halloween Ever!! We even made the costumes. Sadly no pics from back then. My family really didn't get into Halloween.
Amen! My parents would never have dreamed of dressing up in costumes and going trick-or-treating with us like you see now. Halloween was for kids. It was a kid’s holiday. Our culture has blurred the boundaries between what is for kids and what is for adults. I think the self-esteem movement in parenting from the 1980s is what started it.
My parents had 'adult' parties in the basement every year. They all dressed up (mom and dad were like Mortitia and Gomez), it was decorated very cool. We were on our own trick-or-treating, usually last kids out on the streets, and were NOT allowed to disturb the adult party when we got home.
These pics are really great; I was born Halloween night 1961, so before going out trick or treating every Halloween, we had cake and ice cream. I never dived into the candy until the next day! My first couple years I wore long red underwear with a bouncy tail sewn on my bottom by my grandma and a red devil mask. But once I got into second grade, I wore a very cool Batman costume and my older brother wore a Land of the Giants costume, with a giant head where the eye holes were in the mouth. And yes we always used pillow cases!🎃💀👍🙂
Initially, I didn't recall Beatles costumes...Upon looking them up, realized I had seen a Paul or two, just did not know who the mask was supposed to depict. These costumes presently are steeply priced. Great photos, as usual... Bobby and Ethyl, Sandra Dee, etc.
@@AStri-zg5xc Most kids do get over it quickly. I had it as well and am a long hauler. We need to follow all of the science, not the political propaganda.
I was born in 1957, and the 1960's and I also remember getting my costumes from either Kresge's or Woolworth's. Besides, the 1960's it was a lot safer to go trick or treating. Then, we had to have the candy 🍬 or apples inspected to make sure that the candy 🍬 or the apples 🍎 were safe to eat. As in no razor blades in the apples or any poison in the candy. P.S., It may of been safe in the 1960's to go Trick or Treating but, you still had to be careful. It is better to be safe than sorry.
And that is the power of suggestion. No credible accounts other than those myths repeated by the media existed. More kids were injured/killed by getting hit by a car than were ever harmed by tainted candy.
Ahh the 60’s . . . If only I could go back for a short visit. I know where I would go, first to my parents house then run over to my best friend Kathy Marston’s house. I had a pretty good childhood. Lots of fun memories with Kathy.❤️🙏🏼❤️
Ah, the wonderful and fun Halloweens as I remember them in the 1960s! The long and mysterious arms and hands of Recollection Road went inside my brain and read my memories, which explains the headaches I had not too long ago. P.S. Note at 0:20 thru 0:33 the photo of young children are making homemade Halloween costumes, there is a pack of Winston cigarettes on the table.
The later 60s was my prime Halloween experience and one that I still cherish to this day. I had a boxed "black cat" costume, but only had the smock which was black and read "black cat" in yellow. The mask had cracked (I think someone sat on it), so I substituted a wax mask that was a wolfman (I think I still have it in the basement somewhere!). Did not seem to matter that it did not match the smock, as I had the time of my life with my siblings and cousins trick or treating! 🎃 One house in the neighborhood gave out popcorn balls, which were my favorite treat. We would go back to that house later in the evening to get more! 😋
Exactly! We would have been scared and scarred for life if we encountered some of what the stores sell for Halloween decorations today...10 feet tall animated, voiced Grim Reepers, Witches, Winged, Claw-footed Devils, etc.
Holloween for me in the mid to late 60s as a little kid was indeed a blast. I couldn't wait til I got into my costume with my Holloween plastic pumpkin with the handle being full of different candies which includes smarties, mini jolly rauncher and more. Watching Charlie Brown Holloween cartoon and others. Of course there was the warning about razor in the fruit which I had. Even though with the continued changes regarding Vietnam War, Civil and women's rights, the loss of MLK, Kennedy, race to the moon etc, it was still something even just for a moment not to worry and stress what's happening in and around the world
Remember making my own costume and going out trick or treating with my younger brother and friends. We would start just when the sun when down and go until we filled our bag. Which was a brown paper grocery sack. Fun times back then.
By the mid 60's, some of the 5 and 10 stores began to sell "make up" kits. It was basically a kit that had some pastel crayons for scars and blood dripping, a mustache or beard, maybe an eye patch and even some glue that was similar to super glue for "scars". The creativity of people began and by the mid 70's the costumes were still available, but the "accessories" were growing quite a bit.
In our typical 60's sub division, almost every house was home to 2-5 children! We had a neighbor that owned a donut shop and ever year he would hand out fresh warm, glazed donuts!! My parents always kept a tally of trick-or-treaters , and one year 457 came to our door! (Very few, if any, had come for a second time. There were just that many kids in the neighborhoods back then! It wasn't called the Baby Boom Era for nothing!)
My first costume was a clown when I was two years old but I have no memories from that. When i was three though, I was Casper the friendly Ghost. I remember the costume and mask very well. My grandmother took me trick or treating and I remember specifically that she took me to my Uncle and Aunt's house and hid while I knocked on the door. my auntie opened the door and did not know it was me because we had kept my costume a secret and I remember how thrilled I was about that. Then I yelled that it was me and she grabbed me in a big hug and we had such a good laugh. That would have been 1967. here I am tearing up over the memory ;) After that I preferred to make my own costume with a painted face instead of mask. I went as a pirate one year but most often as a hobo . I LOVED making decorations and props for the front porch and entryway.
You always do good work on these videos, but I particularly enjoy that you've done just the right amount of narration and then allow us to just reminiscent with the well chosen music and the photo album portion. Very well done. Thanks.
Batman and Robin were popular costumes, especially for the couple of years that the Batman series was on TV. I remember being Peter Pan one year, a hand me down costume from an older brother. Another year I was Fred Flintstone, another hand me down... LOL. One year my parents got me an "ESSO tiger costume, it was a promo from a gas station. I loved it because it was NEW, and I didn't see anyone else with it. Most people in our neighborhood gave out full size candy bars. I can't imagine the amount of sugar we ate that night. Those Halloweens are some of my favorite memories. Thank you so much for posting this!
My brother and I had so much fun drawing and coloring in pumpkins, witches, black cats etc. We would tape them to the picture window. We had the homemade costumes and the plastic mask kind too. We used the plastic buckets and pillow cases. My brother always got way more candy than me. We would empty the candy onto the floor and trade for our favorite candy. Such simple times and it was great. My parents let us eat as much as we wanted....it was over and done with faster that way lol
We lived in the country, so Mom would drive us to the edge of town and drop us off with a set time to meet up with us. She had nine kids, so if a couple went missing, who would notice? :) My least favorite candies were Now & Laters or Bit-O-Honeys, their only crime being that they weren't chocolate. Many of our costumes were hand-me-downs from the 50s. We had one mask that I called Hangover Man. He had an ice bag on his head and six eyes, like he was dizzy. I found one on Ebay and bought it for the memories.
I have to many great memories on Halloween 🎃 trick or treating, I'm sure glad I grew up in the 60's!!!
My brother Jeff and I hit up our own home, Mom caught it and asked us why,
It's because we both loved our Mom's cooking and cookies.
My family are long gone and I miss them, thank you for the memories we had parties and made a party decorating.😪
I miss them and those days.
I remember going out with friends and not getting home until well after 9. No parental supervision necessary. The last time I lived in a neighborhood where trick or treating was still a thing, most kids were accompanied by adults and the trick or treating was pretty much over by 8 o'clock. I also remember wax-based candies, not so much whistles but the little soda bottles that had Kool-Aid like liquid in them. And of course candy cigarettes. We didn't have much money, especially at that time of year with back to school and birthday expenses happening, so our costumes were always homemade. I also liked gutting and carving up the pumpkin. Good old days indeed.
The last candy cigarettes I saw was over 30 years ago. Where I live, I haven't seen a lot of trick or treating in years. Halloween parties probably replaced t or t.
@@MisterMikeTexas I see some comments where people are saying you can still get candy cigarettes but I'm with you, I haven't seen them in years. It's sad parties have replaced trick or treating. I think it's parents not wanting to walk with them but unwilling to let them go with friends. I won't pass judgement as far as not letting your child go out unsupervised, but the kids really are missing out. Few things are more enjoyable than emptying your pillow case and setting your favorite treats aside.
@@trinketbox4171 .I am from Toledo and I know that retro store well
You see the candy cigarettes down here in GA. Not all stores carry them. I know Fred's department stores used to have them, but most of the Fred Stores have closed down now. Some of the dollar stores have them.
Yes the 1960s were good old days Iternerant Patriot including on Halloween
We went trick-or-treating without adult supervision with no problem. Lots of Sweetarts, Abba Zabbas, Pixie Stix and Milk Duds!
That was the only time of year I ever got those types of sweets. My mother was very strict about the candy I got to have, but she made an exception for Halloween.
The good ol days!
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The free-range days before parinoia, bubble wrap and the electronic leash we call cell phone.
It’s 2021 and I go trick or treating on my own so you guys are wrong about no adult supervision
The best Halloween I ever experienced was in 1968, I was 7 years old living in Harvard, Illinois. I think of " it's the great pumpkin Charlie brown " when reminiscing of that time of my life
I’m the same age, and grew up in the small town of Oglesby, Illinois. What a magical time and place in which to grow up. Autumn and Halloween were absolutely the best. Cheers!
@ John Ward- watching "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!" at Halloween is a yearly ritual for me. But I miss the Dolly Madison cupcakes commercials.
Charlie Brown will be back on this year on PBS.🎃🧙♀️ 👻They didn't even show it last year.
Yes and the classroom party's we used to have! I miss it so much!
Growing up in the 1960s, my father said hundreds of trick or treaters would come to his house. When I started trick or treating in the late 90s, around twenty to thirty trick or treaters would come to my house, but by the time I stopped trick or treating in 2008, my house only received three or four visitors. For the last four or five years, my house hasn’t received even one tricker or treater. That’s how much Halloween has changed.
Sadly, that is a reflection on how much the world has changed.
Yeah, the world has changed. Many religious leaders and people started saying Halloween was evil. Now many churches are doing Harvest Festivals.
@@robertsmith1865 As a religious person, I don’t think Halloween is evil. Halloween is about fantasy and make believe. Real evil comes from people, not vampires.
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@@batman5224 I think so too. What was so terrible about Halloween? Majority of children dressed up as cartoon characters, ballerinas, cowboys etc
I remember being Casper! It was a more innocent time on the surface, but fond memories of trick-or-treating remain. Thank you for the collection of photos...they sure bring back memories.
So much fun and so safe back then!
I also agree with you, so much and safe back then.
I'm a child of the sixties and my Mom always made my costumes. They were so unique. Dad got first crack at the loot when we returned home. I kept the bag of candy under my bed and ate in the night sometimes. I have the silver fillings in my mouth to prove I didn't brush after. lol. We would dress up in the afternoon in elementary school and have a little parade around the school dressed in our outfits. We would stencil Halloween figures on our picture window in our house. And made the other decorations by hand. I'm glad I grew up in the 60's. Thanks for this video. Brings back memories.
The late-50s/early-60s was my Halloween golden age. It was amazing. Dad used to bring home these floppy rubber masks that fit all the way over your head. They were super grotesque. We would make our costumes around those. It was so magical when doors would open and nice ladies would give you stuff. Sometimes the ladies would be dressed as witches. Loved that. We used department store shopping bags that had been painted with cheap elementary-school-type watercolors. It was really spooky to go wandering around by ourselves and seeing other little monsters doing the same. It was so amazing to get home finally and see what you had. I remember getting a Pez dispenser one year. I still love that candy. It's funny how vivid all the memories of smells still are; of the rubbery mask etc.
As soon as you put on the thin elastic mask you'd begin to sweat. I remember having the Casper mask that was bought at Woolworth's.
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@@kenmore01 pretty much!
I was the Princess and my brother was Casper. I'm 59 now and can see it clearly.
My mom cut a hole in my horse mask that I liked so much and ruined it. She saw I was sweating and cut it so I could breath better.
Me too! I was Casper in the late 60's or early 70's, and I would LOVE to have photos !!!!! I can still smell that hot mask! LOL!
As a kid of the 60's, I remember never buying a costume...we made our own. We went trick or treating on our own (no parents) and filled a pillow case in about 2 hours. Sometimes, it got so heavy, we had to head home and dump it and go back out again. No one went out until it was dark. For whatever reason, trick or treating didn't start until around 6. I remember the wax lips, harmonica, and a black mustache. Candy bars were mostly full size, and bubble gum was a favorite. Houses were not all decorated to be ghoulish and haunted. Streets were packed full and everyone gave out tons of candy. My mom even use to make bags of popcorn to give out. Man....those were the days:)
Yes, that is exactly how I remember hween, so glad I was a kid then
Man, we RAN home from school, changed into our costumes, and were back out and trick or treating in a flash. Stayed out till dinner, and once in a while were able to go out for another hour or so. Not too many people had candy left after 8 pm or so anyway.
Such adorable pictures! Innocent times.
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This is an incidental memory, but my neighborhood elementary school would also have a fall carnival that was absolutely magical. The school would rent a few small carnival rides and a moonwalk. There were booths of games with cheap but very interesting prizes like the woven ‘Chinese handcuffs’ that you couldn’t pull your fingers out of. A hayride, A cakewalk and a makeshift theater showing scary films were always a special treat.
They would set up a spook house through the locker rooms at the Halloween carnival at school.
Ah yes, the cakewalk. I won the cakewalk in 1965 at my elementary school. I got a half dozen cup cakes as a prize. I was so happy. I went home and my mom reminded me to share them. I didn't. I ate all of them and didn't share with my 4 siblings. My mom was upset but no regrets!!!
@@Cryo837 I forgot about the cakewalk.
@@Cryo837 The public elementary school around the corner from my house had an annual fair and the cakewalk was one of the main attractions. I never won but one year my cousin did and he was so excited he ran home with his cake...and you guessed it. Face first into the box as he tripped just feet away from his house. The Catholic school I attended had an annual fair as well, complete with a Ferris wheel. Sometime in the early 70s both schools gave up on the fairs. That was a shame. It was a good way for people to get together and the kids always had a blast. The cakewalk. what a cool memory.
When I was in elementary school in the late 50's, early 60's, every elementary school had their own carnival. It was simple stuff by today's standards, but whole families went and had so much fun. Cake walks for homemade cakes, home canned food and baked treats for prizes in the general store booth, unsupervised trick or treating in the neighborhood. We trusted our neighbors back then and weren't afraid of everything. Since we lived a block from school, we had tons of trick or treaters. One night we ran out of candy and they just kept coming. My mother first gave away all our fruit and our own candy, then she made a big batch of popcorn balls and wrapped them in waxed paper. Where I live now, I have a really long dark drive, and it's a good ways between neighbors, so the number of little visitors ranges between one and five. If they go out at all, they want easy pickings where the houses are close to the street and close together. If anyone comes, it's almost always someone I know, stopping to let their kid come to the door because they know it's safe.
I swear I can taste Smarties candies watching this. The photos triggered some kind of olfactory reaction along with the taste buds. That specific Sweet Tart Chalkie Smartie taste. Great Memories.
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When the narrator mentioned the smell of those masks I could recall it very well!
When you mentioned the smell of the plastic mask you hig it spot on that is one thing that sticks in my mind. And your hair getting tangled on the rubber band stapled to the mask
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don't forget getting your tongue stuck in the mouth slit - painfully hilarious !
How about falling over something while running through the yard because you couldn’t see and desperately raking your candy off the grass
I haven't seen one of those Halloween 🎃 whistles in years.
Some of the candy from previous years, 50's and 60's are still made and can be purchased at Cracker Barrel. I've seen the wax whistles there.
I was born in 1961, watching this video brings back a lot of memories! I remember as a young boy going out trick or treating in my costume and wearing the plastic mask carrying either a big plastic trick or treat bag or pail, those were the best times! I remember the candy cigarettes, wax bottles, root beer barrels, atomic fireballs, candy necklaces, candy dots, salt water taffy! Also, the 60's music was the best music!
Awesome. My mom was born the same year although she only told me about the Halloween memories she had as an adult dressing up at work and with my sister and I when we were kids. Now, I dress up for Halloween and other holidays at work since I didn't really get to dress up much as a kid and I even dressed as Piglet for Halloween 2020 since that marked 40 years of my mother being a high school graduate and when I went to her alma mater in second grade I saw a Winnie the Pooh play that day.
Your video brings back some great memories of the 60's and Halloween. Being a Roman Catholic the next day we had to go to Mass for all Souls Day.
You mean All Saints Day. 😇
November 2 is All Souls Day which is celebrated more in the US today as "Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)", which is a Mexican holiday.
All Saints Day.
I remember going out on Halloween in the 70's, it was wonderful. We would take a pillow case and dump it out at home mid evening and then go out for more. Great time to grow up.
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My father had to frisk us before we went out, to make sure we didn't have any soap, firecrackers, or toilet paper. Of course the night before was Mischief Night and we definitely weren't allowed out then!
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Wow, I had forgotten about those wax whistles☺️ always made my own costume🎃
I always made my own wax whistles! ;o)
remember the wax fingertips with claws?
3:20 The paper articulated skeleton on the wall. I still have mine.
I was born in 1960, so of course this brings up memories.
We had it too.
I was Casper the friendly Ghost most of the time, or a hobo.....pillow case in hand going off in the early evening with my 3 brothers and sister and 8000 other kids without care in the world......parents didn't worry there were kids and parents everywhere before all the craziness we have now ......... sigh
I think around fall 1971 or so, our class, the news, and maybe even psa's started advising parents and us to check our bags when we got home. Parents were advised to throw out anything that looked suspect, and to only keep wrapped articles. There were rumors and reports of booby trapped candies and treats with razor blades in the center or poison of some sort. Not sure how much of that was true, but times were already changing as the 70s got underway. After 1980, I don't remember a lot of trick or treaters visiting our house. And I was 11 the last time I participated in the mid 70s.
You are so right, Debbie. Such a shame things had to change for the worse like they have.
I remember *all* of this! ❤ As soon as you said Woolworth's and Ben Cooper I had to literally LOL. Thanks for another cool flashback!
I love this. Took me back in time. I was born in 62 and I remember all of it. I had one of those plastic costumes with the face mask that you could not see out of. Love the orange harmonica, we would eat that and it did not taste very good. I remember the red lips too. We would make piles and seperate the candy and even trade. Thank you for making this!
I just LOVE your videos! All the photos bring back sooo many memories, and the ADS---omg! Soo very cool to see those vintage ads, too. Thank you for the trip down memory lane!
What a great time to be a kid! I lived in New Orleans and we had a local Horror show hosted by a guy named Morgus the Magnificent. He was supposed to be a mad scientist. They would always put on a special program for Halloween. Some fond trick or treat memories. Thanks again for all you do! 😊
The 60s were my pre-teen and teen years - best time ever! We lived in a VA Hospital a couple miles from town, so it was like a gated community but with about 40 school-age kids. Everyone knew every body’s kid so we were free-range Trick or Treaters. It all started when the street lights came on.
We always made our own costumes-the plastic costumes were for the “little kids”. There were 6 kids in our family so mom had little time for making costumes, she helped us, but by and large it was our own project. My sister was the best at it. Her Cousin It costume from the Adams Family TV show was the best. She spent hours unraveling ropes to use as “hair” that reached from her head to the ground. We had no masks, just face paint and other special effects.
Since it was northern Wyoming, we often trudged through snow or blizzards and our costumes were covered up by coats, boots, scarves and often falling apart from being wet. No problem though because at 8pm the Director of the Hospital would host a wonderful party and we would watch Charlie Brown while getting warm with hot cocoa and eating home-made treats. Wonderful memories of a very special time!
In the NYC area Halloween in the 60s also meant collecting for Unicef, the newly formed UN children's fund. We had our bag of candy and also our collection cup that we would then turn over in school the next day. God only knows where that money eventually wound up but at the time we kids really thought we were doing something great.
Also....the wax harmonicas!!! Thanks for that memory!!! A great fear-free time to grow up!
I remember the UNICEF collection!
We also collected in NC. Hopefully back then it was being used in a good way. Now I don't give to those charities. Only very local ones like my local fire, church, etc.
@@bettyc.parker-young1437 Yeah, I agree.
I got a Casper costume like one of the ones described for kindergarten in 1969!
ME TOO!!!
I dressed as Casper for my first Halloween, but since I was 4 or 5, it had a plastic skull cap with that rubber band strap, which inevitably broke.
I do remember that other Casper costume and that mask, though! Kind of creepy and Casper never looked scary in the cartoons. But, all in all, what a great time to be a kid.
So many memories back then!! My mother sewed our costumes back then in the 1960’s and 1970’s! 🙋🏻♀️💕
The oldest kids walked with the youngest with few parents around. I remember droves of kids and decorated houses and lots of candy of all sorts, or popcorn balls or fudge. It was scary and fun as a kid. Now no kids come to my neighborhood so I eat candy and watch scary movies.
was born in 1960 .. first went in 1965 .. great time with family and friends . miss those days more than ever now
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What about rubber band that was used for the mask?(it broke Everytime), nothing like all the broken pixie sticks, pillow case for candy.
Yea I remember that rubber band breaking 👍😆
GOOD ONE! yeah it was a weird texture as I recall
That band was very flimsy!
My Dad had repaired my mask by replacing the broken band by cutting a large rubber band in half, then stapling it. I still have another mask that has this strange thin elastic that wore out and is very stretched out.
@@larrycj4382When I see the price of those costumes,I don't know why I didn't have a couple!(not that there was a variety to choose from.)
@@sageredowl8506 Yes! Maybe the "once a year" notion discouraged our parents? One year, I slept in my smock as I knew I would have to put it away for a whole year and wanted to extend the holiday!
My first trick or treating memory, guessing I was 5 in 1967, it was rainy, my mom gave me a paper bag, when I got home my mom said "let's see what you have David" the bottom of the bag was gone and I had nothing. I began to cry, my sister's were so nice, the all gave me some of their candy and everything was fine.
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I remember I had Nightmare the horse from the Casper cartoon in 1964 . My brother and I would try fill as much as the bag as we could . We were living in Riverdale Maryland at the time. Man it just seems like forever ago . This was a really good episode.
Yep, traffic is ridiculous in Riverdale now. Like night and day compared to 64'.
@@matrox yep that’s true . We lived where East West highway went through. We had to move because of that in 65 .
@@cheaplaughkennedy2318 Speed Cameras all up and down Route 1 now from Hyattsville to Laurel.
Now a days, we haven't hat trick or treaters in our neighborhood for 5 years
I had a casper costume with the plastic mask. It had a lite coating of flourescent on it so that you could hold it under a light then it would glow in the dark for awhile. It the late 50s I remember my older brother having a Herman the mouse costume. Anyone remember Herman the mouse?
WOW!!! Who like the wax candy harmonica? It was truly a fun treat to me.🧛♀️
I enjoyed Halloween in the 1960's! My two favourite costumes were Spot The Fire Dog, that had a pajama costume, in which I slept in way past Halloween; and Casper The Friendly Ghost. I'd go trick-or-treating with my two older brothers, sometimes catching up with friends from school. Once home for the night, the three of us would eat and trade our candy haul.
Then, if November 1 fell on a school day, it was Halloween candy for dessert in lunch bags and lunch boxes, and more candy trading. Before Halloween, the elementary schools I went to had Halloween carnivals and classroom Halloween parties. Each kid would get a mini-bag filled with candy. My personal favorite were the Dum Dum Suckers.
I'd hear stories about some more affluent neighborhoods that gave out better candy. I also heard stories about "Mexican Halloween" in Tijuana, Mexico ( I grew up in San Diego, CA), which, of course, was actually Dia de los Muertos.
I loved being a young kid in the 1960's!😉🎃👻👽
I grew up in San Diego near SDSU! We would take a pillow case for a bag and come home with lbs of candy 🍭
I remember one year that Casper costume was super popular. We had Halloween parties at school and that year there were three or four "Caspers" just in my class.
"Dia De Los Muertos" - Goddess of Deaths? Goddess of the Dead?
@@MisterMikeTexas "Day of the Dead"
Halloween in the 60s was the best memory of my childhood, I remember shoppers world, store bought costumes, yes the smell, t or t until 10pm, multiple brown grocery bags of candy, still my fav holiday but glad I was a kid in the 60s, not the same for kids today.
Cool. I remember walking all over the neighborhood with my brother and friends. We made stops at home to empty our big bags full of candy onto the kitchen floor for sorting. Adults were so kind and would feign horror at our costumes.. The freedom to be out and about at night safely is long gone and I feel sorry for the kids today.
Loved Halloween in the 60's and 70's. We went trick'r treating in our hometown then went to the town my dad was from so we loaded up. It was the best night of the year
Remember Halloween well, back in the 60’s. Also, remember the Halloween carnivals at our elementary school ! The treasure chest, bobbing for apples, and MUCH more !! Memories I treasure ❣️
Enjoy your videos, you do an outstanding job.
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I got to bob for apples at a Halloween party for us teens in 1984, at the piano players house from our church. They lived in a beautiful upscale house by the city park. A good memory for me. It wasn't easy to get an apple out, but I got some out.
My mom would bundle me with so many coats, I always looked like a round pumpkin regardless of the mask/costume.🤷🏻♀️
I was a kid in the 60s . All my friends had home made costumes . My mother worked and brought me and my brother and i had store bought one it was such a hit. But in reality the stay at home moms costumes were really better. We had those two. And most of the time we got home made goodies. My mom bought big candy bars too hand out. Also some of the old ladies would give us penny's or sometimes nickles.
My mom used boxes and tin cans to make my "robot" costume.
Mrs. Kitchen was always the last stop in the neighborhood for getting a treat. After a long night's walk, her hot dogs really hit the spot.
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Don’t forget the timeless “It’s The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown” premiered in 1966! I watched it in the 1960s as a kid and still watch it today. Much love to Charles Schultz (may you rest in eternal peace!) and his wife Jeanie who keeps the memory alive for future generations!🎃🎃🎃❤️❤️❤️
OH! The joy of Halloween back then! All the excitement of that day as a kid came back just watching this. The freedom of being out at night with friends. The friendliness of the neighbors. And of course the tales of who lived in the homes that kept their lights off to make us think no one was home! Pure sweet fun. Thanks for this vid.
Still enjoy 'The Monster Mash'!!! And no matter that I'm well over the hill, I still enjoy 'The Great Pumpkin'.
Love both! Did you know there is a Rankin-Bass Halloween show? 1967 Mad Monster Party 🎃👻
"The Monster Mash" is a great tune. I play it even when it's nowhere near Halloween! In fact, I'm gonna go play it now! 👍😊👍
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I was born in mid 70's. So I guess my memories of Halloween started in 1980ish. I remember the sidewalks being jammed packed full of kids. We went out without parent supervision. We had the vinyl suit and plastic masks...I had Holly Hobby and Raggedy Anne, of course our mom saved every decoration from past holidays, so my costumes were used but I didn't care. It was a great memory having options to choose from, or use pieces of things to come up with our own. We had pillowcase bags and candy cigarettes and waxed lips too. Our Halloween always started at 7 and I remember staring out the window in hopes to find the first person out so we could rush at mom to let us start then too. I remember hearing stories about poison and razor blades, so mom and dad told us to not eat anything until they inspected it. Nobody was bloody or gory or tried to jump out in front of cars...I think that added to the degradation of Halloween as well. I remember mom would throw a Halloween party in our basement. She had those paper mache orange and black streamers everywhere and fold out pumpkin decorations. Since I have been a parent, my kids enjoy our small towns' street booth trick or treat experience. We live near 2 small towns that both do downtown street trick or treating and they stagger it an hour apart from each other so us farmers can hit both towns. It is so much fun! My favorite part is going into the older businesses like the book store to get a treat (usually a book and some candy) or another store may have cider or cocoa. The fire department always opens it's doors for hotdogs, sodas and chips in one town and a big church does the same for the other town. There are games, costume contests, and another church puts on a movie, like the Lorax or something. Then after street treating, we hit area homes because they are expecting kids. We know this by the porch light being on. My kids come home with huge bags of stuff! I enjoy watching them get excited!
Oh how i miss those days . As a child I had every paper cut out . my mom would get mad because i never took them out of the bag .I saved all my paper cut outs some still with the price tags on them and opened them this year 2021 and put them up . I did not care of the value of some of the paper cut outs and though why now at age 58 did i save them . so i opened every one up i must of had 50 or so . and put them up on the walls . like the olden days . they look awesome and gives me memories of Halloween in the 1960s . i even have the paper cut outs that my mom had opened to decorate with . We had no price limit on how many pumpkins we wanted or our what we wanted to be for Halloween it was a wonderful time . I wish i could go back .
I was a child in the 60's loved Halloween and wore those kinda costumes this video brought back memories thanks! 🎃
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I remember the Casper and Donald Duck costumes really well from back then.
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Quite a surprise that Halloween in the 1960s is now up. I wonder if you read my comment in the 1950s halloween video on halloween in the (decade). By the way here is one important tradition of halloween that originated in the 1960's. "Its The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" made its tv release in 1966. Tv adaptation of Charles Schultz's Peanuts comic strip. 7 years after the "Great Pumpkin" element of the Peanuts franchise was introduced, it became an expectation to see Linus waiting for this mysterious Great Pumpkin every year since 1959. The 1966 special was the first time the gag was introduced on tv. Keep up the Halloween in the decades Recollection Road. I want to keep seeing more of the changes of Halloween over the years.
You have made my Halloween. I will share this with my brothers and sister. Probably my twin and I went out first around 1959, with adults. I also enjoyed your 50s video very much. This is a wonderful gift you give us.
Growing up in the West Side of Manhattan, NYC we would trick or treat in friends apartment building and on the Street corner. A party would be held at school . What memories.
I STILL have a Halloween treat that I got while trick or treating in the seventies.
My friends and I knocked on a door while trick or treating, and a man came out with a Polaroid camera. He had our group huddle together so we could fit in the photo. After he took the photo, he gave me the Polaroid. I've had it ever since!
I love the music. remember buying my costume at the drugstore or dimestore and it ws so easy to pick out what box you wanted. Not to many people made their costumes where i was. some people went to the magic store to buy a mask. My oldest brother made a computer out of a giant washing machine box and it had lights on it that you can make blink from the inside, it ws really quite nice. They came out with that movie, "the computer who wore tennis shoes" that year. It was such a fun safe time and the culture just did not promote anything evil, so it was not scary. After 10pm we would get our windows egged by the crazies or out trees covered in toilet paper and that was kind of wild, but we enjoyed the vandalism of our homes. Nobody called the cops. How do we get back to a time when things weree innocent when there is so much garbage on the internet that decays so many minds? Just dont know. We were all on the same page back then, and that really helped keep us away from brainwashing, at least during the 60's.
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I remember that my mother and the mothers of the children who lived next door accompanied us when we did trick or treating.
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I have a 1964 Disney album, "Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of The Haunted House". Sounds date back to 1927. It's a very good, scarey sounds, album. My favorite parts are Screams & Groans, and Fuses & Explosions
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We had that, too! My brothers and I used it for sound effects in our "haunted house" constructed in our basement usually during the month of August. Summer vacation was an eternity back then and school started back after Labor Day. There were real seasons back then, too. When the leaves started changing and the days were shorter and cooler, the anticipation of the most wonderful, magical night of the year began! Oh! To be a kid again in 1970s Newark DE.
Lol I had that too and would play it every year at least two weeks before trick or treat and me and my sister would work on our haunted bedroom and make my mom walk through it in the dark. Of course one of us would reach out from underneath thebed to grab her foot! lol
I remember Halloween in the 1960's. I was a kid who went out trick or treating back then. Even then, your parents had to go through your candy.
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I recall having one of those skeleton costumes @ 2:42 in the mid 60s. Ah, I can almost smell the wonderful odor of a candle charring the inside lid of the Jack-o-lantern. And be sure to roast those pumkin seeds!🎃
I still roast them seeds TODAY!
I love these Halloween videos and the memories they conjure up. I hope "Halloween in the 1970s" is on the way.👻
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Yeah, I've seen that video. Halloween in the 50s and Halloween in the 80s, too.
My earliest memory of my first trick-or-treating outing was with the teenage neighbor girls who sometimes babysat me and my two siblings. We went with a group of young people and had a magical blast.
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Candy corn was very popular at Halloween. I never ate the CC whole. I would always bite off the tip which was white, then the middle which was orange, then finally the last section which was yellow. Not sure why I did it just a habit.
As a kid, I never liked CC and would give the little bags of it away to my brother & sister. Some of the paper Halloween treat bags would also have some loose CC in them. Well, as an adult, I now love CC and get many bags of the Brach's brand! 😋
One of my best memories of Halloween was back in the 60s. Just before Halloween, like a month, I had ordered the Famous Monsters of Hollywood Makeup kit. I read over the book that came with it for doing the makeup, and that Saturday was Halloween. I took and made up all of my friends. We were all the Monsters. Best Halloween Ever!! We even made the costumes. Sadly no pics from back then. My family really didn't get into Halloween.
Before the adults took Halloween away from the kids!
now their taking away their whole dam childhood
Amen! My parents would never have dreamed of dressing up in costumes and going trick-or-treating with us like you see now. Halloween was for kids. It was a kid’s holiday. Our culture has blurred the boundaries between what is for kids and what is for adults. I think the self-esteem movement in parenting from the 1980s is what started it.
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My parents had 'adult' parties in the basement every year. They all dressed up (mom and dad were like Mortitia and Gomez), it was decorated very cool. We were on our own trick-or-treating, usually last kids out on the streets, and were NOT allowed to disturb the adult party when we got home.
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These pics are really great; I was born Halloween night 1961, so before going out trick or treating every Halloween, we had cake and ice cream. I never dived into the candy until the next day! My first couple years I wore long red underwear with a bouncy tail sewn on my bottom by my grandma and a red devil mask. But once I got into second grade, I wore a very cool Batman costume and my older brother wore a Land of the Giants costume, with a giant head where the eye holes were in the mouth. And yes we always used pillow cases!🎃💀👍🙂
I remember sweating profusely in those masks lol. Then end up getting injured when the elastic broke lol.
Lot of great memories there! Thanks.
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My favorite costume was when I was seven was Lucille Ball.
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OMG, can’t imagine opening my door and seeing a pint-size Lucy! 😱
Initially, I didn't recall Beatles costumes...Upon looking them up, realized I had seen a Paul or two, just did not know who the mask was supposed to depict. These costumes presently are steeply priced.
Great photos, as usual... Bobby and Ethyl, Sandra Dee, etc.
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What I remember besides the distinct smell of the masks was you took them off quickly because they were hot and you couldn't breath.
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Sound familiar? Hot and can't breathe, kids, all school children, all year, you might get covid, small chance, which you would quickly get over.
Gee, just like now lol
@@marygrant882 I've had covid....you dont "get over it quickly" .
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Most kids do get over it quickly. I had it as well and am a long hauler. We need to follow all of the science, not the political propaganda.
I was born mid 60s. Was a wonderful time to be a kid. Feel so bad for children today.
I was born in 1957, and the 1960's and I also remember getting my costumes from either Kresge's or Woolworth's. Besides, the 1960's it was a lot safer to go trick or treating. Then, we had to have the candy 🍬 or apples inspected to make sure that the candy 🍬 or the apples 🍎 were safe to eat. As in no razor blades in the apples or any poison in the candy.
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It may of been safe in the 1960's to go Trick or Treating but, you still had to be careful. It is better to be safe than sorry.
I remember it all haven’t thought about my childhood Halloween’s in years Thank you
This was my decade. Towards the end of the decade, you began to hear about razor blades.
I got sick one year from eating too much
And that is the power of suggestion. No credible accounts other than those myths repeated by the media existed. More kids were injured/killed by getting hit by a car than were ever harmed by tainted candy.
@@lohphat yep. Around then, you also had to get a parent's note to buy model glue
i lost any taste for caramel-filled chocolate by eating a whole family block. even today decades later i feel sick if i see caramel chocolate blocks
Thank you for the great memories. I miss those days.
I can remember being Casper the Friendly Ghost and Felix the Cat!
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@@AuntieSal75 I named my cat Poindexter😊
Ahh the 60’s . . . If only I could go back for a short visit. I know where I would go, first to my parents house then run over to my best friend Kathy Marston’s house. I had a pretty good childhood. Lots of fun memories with Kathy.❤️🙏🏼❤️
I had a casper costume like that one in the 70s as a small child
Ah, the wonderful and fun Halloweens as I remember them in the 1960s! The long and mysterious arms and hands of Recollection Road went inside my brain and read my memories, which explains the headaches I had not too long ago.
P.S. Note at 0:20 thru 0:33 the photo of young children are making homemade Halloween costumes, there is a pack of Winston cigarettes on the table.
I remember a house that invited you in for warm homemade donuts a hot chocolate
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The later 60s was my prime Halloween experience and one that I still cherish to this day. I had a boxed "black cat" costume, but only had the smock which was black and read "black cat" in yellow. The mask had cracked (I think someone sat on it), so I substituted a wax mask that was a wolfman (I think I still have it in the basement somewhere!). Did not seem to matter that it did not match the smock, as I had the time of my life with my siblings and cousins trick or treating! 🎃 One house in the neighborhood gave out popcorn balls, which were my favorite treat. We would go back to that house later in the evening to get more! 😋
We had the scarecrow decoration shown at 1:18!! Thank you for the memories! 🎃
The whole thing was less sinister - I don’t recall, for example, the synthetic blood, skeletons, and macabre body parts decorations you see today.
Exactly! We would have been scared and scarred for life if we encountered some of what the stores sell for Halloween decorations today...10 feet tall animated, voiced Grim Reepers, Witches, Winged, Claw-footed Devils, etc.
ha ha I remember these VERY well!!!!! :)
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Holloween for me in the mid to late 60s as a little kid was indeed a blast. I couldn't wait til I got into my costume with my Holloween plastic pumpkin with the handle being full of different candies which includes smarties, mini jolly rauncher and more. Watching Charlie Brown Holloween cartoon and others. Of course there was the warning about razor in the fruit which I had. Even though with the continued changes regarding Vietnam War, Civil and women's rights, the loss of MLK, Kennedy, race to the moon etc, it was still something even just for a moment not to worry and stress what's happening in and around the world
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Remember making my own costume and going out trick or treating with my younger brother and friends. We would start just when the sun when down and go until we filled our bag. Which was a brown paper grocery sack. Fun times back then.
By the mid 60's, some of the 5 and 10 stores began to sell "make up" kits. It was basically a kit that had some pastel crayons for scars and blood dripping, a mustache or beard, maybe an eye patch and even some glue that was similar to super glue for "scars". The creativity of people began and by the mid 70's the costumes were still available, but the "accessories" were growing quite a bit.
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We had three I know of that made popcorn ball and candy apples, we ate these while walking home. Never thought twice. No x-rays of them or the candy.
In our typical 60's sub division, almost every house was home to 2-5 children! We had a neighbor that owned a donut shop and ever year he would hand out fresh warm, glazed donuts!! My parents always kept a tally of trick-or-treaters , and one year 457 came to our door! (Very few, if any, had come for a second time. There were just that many kids in the neighborhoods back then! It wasn't called the Baby Boom Era for nothing!)
We were allowed to bring our costume to school and got to put it on at the end of the day and did a parade through the upper classes.
My first costume was a clown when I was two years old but I have no memories from that. When i was three though, I was Casper the friendly Ghost. I remember the costume and mask very well. My grandmother took me trick or treating and I remember specifically that she took me to my Uncle and Aunt's house and hid while I knocked on the door. my auntie opened the door and did not know it was me because we had kept my costume a secret and I remember how thrilled I was about that. Then I yelled that it was me and she grabbed me in a big hug and we had such a good laugh. That would have been 1967. here I am tearing up over the memory ;) After that I preferred to make my own costume with a painted face instead of mask. I went as a pirate one year but most often as a hobo . I LOVED making decorations and props for the front porch and entryway.
You always do good work on these videos, but I particularly enjoy that you've done just the right amount of narration and then allow us to just reminiscent with the well chosen music and the photo album portion. Very well done. Thanks.
Brings back good times and memories,THANX!!
Batman and Robin were popular costumes, especially for the couple of years that the Batman series was on TV. I remember being Peter Pan one year, a hand me down costume from an older brother. Another year I was Fred Flintstone, another hand me down... LOL. One year my parents got me an "ESSO tiger costume, it was a promo from a gas station. I loved it because it was NEW, and I didn't see anyone else with it. Most people in our neighborhood gave out full size candy bars. I can't imagine the amount of sugar we ate that night. Those Halloweens are some of my favorite memories. Thank you so much for posting this!
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My brother and I had so much fun drawing and coloring in pumpkins, witches, black cats etc. We would tape them to the picture window. We had the homemade costumes and the plastic mask kind too. We used the plastic buckets and pillow cases. My brother always got way more candy than me. We would empty the candy onto the floor and trade for our favorite candy. Such simple times and it was great. My parents let us eat as much as we wanted....it was over and done with faster that way lol
We lived in the country, so Mom would drive us to the edge of town and drop us off with a set time to meet up with us. She had nine kids, so if a couple went missing, who would notice? :) My least favorite candies were Now & Laters or Bit-O-Honeys, their only crime being that they weren't chocolate. Many of our costumes were hand-me-downs from the 50s. We had one mask that I called Hangover Man. He had an ice bag on his head and six eyes, like he was dizzy. I found one on Ebay and bought it for the memories.
My greatest memories come from the 50's. I entered high school in 59, then of the trick or treat era for me. Good times though.
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