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Trick or treating when I was a kid was, to me, an almost indescribably fun experience. I don't remember exactly what year I started, because my parents were taking me around when I was far too young to run around by myself.
I recall being scared by the Disney record "Chilling Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House" and literally thinking that those sounds were real haunted house sounds...and then later being fascinated that something like a spooky record even existed!
I am remembering those lovely nights when I was a trick or treater. Getting all that candy was cool, and the candy, once "in the bag," as it were, lingered as a kind of material memory of the experience of getting it------running around in your dark neighborhood, now a strange, shadowy, unfamiliar place, going to all the houses in the area and interacting with folks you would never otherwise see, pretending to be a monster or superhero or whatever it was that night. Seeing all the jack-o-lanterns and strange lighting and decorations people had scared up (it was a lot less in 1974 than what we see nowadays, but it worked just fine!).
I remember the thrill I had when I realized one house had black threads, basically invisible, attached to the porch roof, which crawled across the face like icky spiderwebs. It was probably an old trick even then, but my reaction was, "Strings from the ceiling! How effective/creepy/inexpensive!"
And there was that house that year, the one with all the pumpkins carved and lit on the dark, dark front porch. Wow, how spooky and yet how warm and comforting that image was. Hard to explain. I don't think there were more than six or seven pumpkins, maybe less than that, but they made an impression.
Halloween was less commercialized and and a much simpler show at that time, but, truly, what tremendous fun it was!
I would love to hear about your special TOT memories, even if they're not in the 1970's time period.
I recall being scared by the Disney record "Chilling Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House" and literally thinking that those sounds were real haunted house sounds...and then later being fascinated that something like a spooky record even existed!
I am remembering those lovely nights when I was a trick or treater. Getting all that candy was cool, and the candy, once "in the bag," as it were, lingered as a kind of material memory of the experience of getting it------running around in your dark neighborhood, now a strange, shadowy, unfamiliar place, going to all the houses in the area and interacting with folks you would never otherwise see, pretending to be a monster or superhero or whatever it was that night. Seeing all the jack-o-lanterns and strange lighting and decorations people had scared up (it was a lot less in 1974 than what we see nowadays, but it worked just fine!).
I remember the thrill I had when I realized one house had black threads, basically invisible, attached to the porch roof, which crawled across the face like icky spiderwebs. It was probably an old trick even then, but my reaction was, "Strings from the ceiling! How effective/creepy/inexpensive!"
And there was that house that year, the one with all the pumpkins carved and lit on the dark, dark front porch. Wow, how spooky and yet how warm and comforting that image was. Hard to explain. I don't think there were more than six or seven pumpkins, maybe less than that, but they made an impression.
Halloween was less commercialized and and a much simpler show at that time, but, truly, what tremendous fun it was!
I would love to hear about your special TOT memories, even if they're not in the 1970's time period.