Thread: Where are you Halloween?

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It seems halloween fades a little with each passing year here in northern california. When i was a kid('80's) halloween came alive in every store and in a great number of houses, trick or treaters were out from dusk until almost midnight. This past year the local stores started bringing out the christmas stuff on the 29th of october, 2 houses on my street decorated ( mine included) and the kids didn't even say "trick or treat" just held out their bags with a half-smile that seemed forced!So since i haven't been east of nevada this thead is a ment to find out where halloween has gone. I am hoping that halloween is still out there because i am absolutly sick over the fact that the holiday i love most, gets no love in my part of the country.

When we moved, barely anyone decorated too on my street, now, four years of decorating like crazy, and just getting worse, almost every house had something. You must lead as example for others to follow. We live in a "####" society, people are so scared of what other people will think of them, or offending someone, I always said in my life, S....W EVERYONE, I was not put here to impress no one but my own self!!! Decorate like no tomorrow, you I promise, others will follow. If not, who cares, you had fun doing it, that what matters!

Just the other day I already had one of the neighbor kids ask if I was working on Halloween stuff yet. I told him I was and he got excited saying "last year was so cool".

I had the same thing happen to me as Yubney. Those who can create, and those who can't participate! So, even though we may very well be the only house on our cul-de-sac that goes all out for Halloween (a lot of house decorate for Christmas), ours is the house everyone remembers from last year and look's forward to this year. That expectation is what pushes us to set our sights higher each year.

^^^ the interest shown by neighbors in what i have in store for the coming halloween season is what keeps me exited! I would like to believe there is a couple of cities around that throw big halloween bashes and events like what communities do for Christmas

Don't worry too much, damianthe13th, Halloween moved out here to the hinterlands. Every time I purchase a strange item (as if I buy normal ones...) and someone asks me what I'm going to use it for, the conversation inevitably ends up with that person saying "Yeah, Halloween really seems to becoming a big deal, like Christmas."

Yes, yes it is. Wouldn't have it any other way!

Originally Posted by BlueFrog

the conversation inevitably ends up with that person saying "Yeah, Halloween really seems to becoming a big deal, like Christmas."

I believe that to be true as well....There has NEVER been more product to choose from than there is right now....If I would have waited for after Halloween sales this past year like I did in past years before that, I wouldn't have got anything.....They were sold out of almost everything that was even a little bit cool....SOMEBODY besides just me was shopping for the items......ZR

I noticed more profesional haunts popping up each year... the industry of Halloween seems to be very alive... sometimes I question the actual spirit though

Way back in the day when we 1st started decorating for Halloween here I had to order things out of kids' toy catalogs or go to a card store like Hallmark's to get decorations. I remember when one party store suddenly had a few styrofoam tombstones before Halloween. It was a real thrill to see that!

Now every party store around here is chock full of every kind of Halloween decoration, costume, & party supply. Starting in September there seems to be a Halloween specialty store every few blocks, Halloween Club & Halloween Town (both open all year!) carry a huge variety of all things Halloween. It's great!

We have so many haunted houses/old buildings/theaters/mazes popping up the month before Halloween in our area that it's difficult to choose which attraction to visit. We've also got the big guys in on it: the Knotts Halloween Haunt, Universal Halloween Horror Nights, the Queen Mary Haunted Shipwreck. There are whole neighborhoods in L.A. that decorate for the TOTs, for example in Toluca Lake.

Halloween is alive & well in SoCal!!!

I tend to agree with damianthe13th - I grew up in a small town in upstate NY during the 60s and 70s, and can remember hordes of children running by in costume....few parents in sight...it seemed everyone had some decorations....we never worried about poisoned treats, or razor blades in apples either....

Flash forward 30 years, and no one seems to enjoy the spirit of Halloween. We lived in KY some years ago, and people who actually post signs in their yards advising TOTs that Halloween was the Devil's holiday, and, as good, God fearing Christians, they did not pass out candy or treats....

Living in upstate NY, there is a lack of Halloween attractions...we have nothing like Knott's Berry Farm, etc, although do have smaller venues, and our share of haunted hayrides and spooky attractions...

Still, I miss the old days....



Jeff