Thread: What towns have awesome Halloween Festivities?

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After College I want to start my own business that sells Halloween items and I want to know what towns to look at to move to. Where I'm currently living (Nowheresville, Florida) has no real holiday festivies and no Autumn. I want to move anyway but I want to really consider towns that my business would thrive in.

Any ideas?

I think you would do well in Chicago, Halloween is a big thing there and be sure that you start selling online.


Muf

Orlando/ Tampa Florida area has lots going on around october every park does there own thing like universal studios/Disney/sea world/bush gardens etc plus a hand full of independents. I try to hit them all but there just isn't enough time in the month.

I'll just say the first thing that popped into my head when I read your thread:

NOT MINE!!

• Salem, Massachusetts.
• Greenwich Village, New York City.
• New Orleans, Louisiana.
• Anoka, Minnesota.

Anoka MN does claim to be the Halloween capital of the world, but I never check it out because there is enough going on in Excelsior.
Every year the Historical Society changes the museum into the Booseum, and the trolly into the Ghost Trolley! How cool is that? Our local garden center puts the most amazing display up, (like 100 monsters/scarecrows). It would be fitting to have a Halloween retailer here. (We do get a Spirit store in a neighboring town.)

I think Anoka may be little more than a stunt by the chamber of commerce. It's really frustrating as a home haunt enthusiast, when I click on the link for the results of last year's home decorating contest winners, and all they give you is the addresses and maybe names, but no pictures....

Stay out of south florida, thats where I live and they dont do anything.

Sleepy Hollow/Tarrytown, NY
Salem, MA
(To paraphrase the Beverly Hillbillies) "Southern Californy is the place you oughtta be!" There are many haunts and neighborhoods that get into the Halloween spirit in a big way, plus you are in the FX capital of the world.

my step daughter lives in anoka minn. she swears by it for being the halloween capitol. my husband isn't into halloween so when we go to visit we never have checked out anything. i don't drive well in the big cities anymore. i do know they have a nice spirit store.