When Halloween was Fun

[themechanic]

Notice the Winston cigarettes packaging for the kid's crayons.

 

[Big Bad Dad]

When I was a kid in the 60's, I remember having candy cigarettes that were packaged in boxes that had the same look as real cigarettes. I remember the Winston and Salem packaging, as well as the Winston jingle that was played on the radio and the TV commercials. And I grew up in a town only about a hundred miles from Winston-Salem North Carolina. I remember the old welcome signs there with the cigarette packs on them. (They may still have them??)

 

[odcics2]

Boy, waz we stupid back then!!

 

[Sahara]

Ah, the sixties and early seventies. The end of what I consider awesome Halloween.
Costumes were always home made, and even an old bedsheet ghost costume was cool and acceptable.
What I really miss is the firecrackers. A nickel a pack, and even then that was cheap. Fireworks stands would pop up along the highway for a few weeks ahead of Halloween and dad would take us out to buy a huge pile of them.
Then in the mid seventies some kids in Edmonton were killed when their tent burned from a firecracker. Almost overnight they were banned, and still are.
I still have a huge stash of them, and periodically I dole out a few packs to my friends.
You can buy fireworks here no problem, but there’s something so cool about firecrackers.

 

[themechanic]

I liked the fat kid wearing the Cheetah costume. Looks like he just ate a herd of Impala.

 

[WileE]

Halloween in Brooklyn when I was a kid: buying a crate of a dozen eggs and throwing them at anybody or anything you considered a target. Blowing off M-80's inside pumpkins on peoples porches, blowing them up in smithereens. Filling a sock with flour and hitting anybody you considered a target. Filling a sock with flour and pieces of chalk, and hitting anyone you considered a target. Filling a sock with flour and rocks, and hitting anyone you considered a target.

 

[Rick@Laysons]

Screwing with our local town cop....yeah....just the ONE cop!!!

He was 64 and 1/2, getting ready to retire. So Halloween night I grabbed about 4 ears of freshly picked ear corn from Grampa's grainery and about 20 ft. of electric fence wire, threw it all in the trunk of my 70 GTX and off to town we went.

Just before midnight, I got the corn and wire out of the trunk, tied those ears of corn onto one the end of the wire, then tied the other end to the rear bumper of my 'X, and went cruising arond the loop at about 5 mph.

Ol Harold lit me up a few minutes later. walked up to the side of my car and asked me if I knew I had some wire tangled up on my rear bumper. I said that Yes! Yes, I was fully aware of the wire and ears of corn dragging from my rear bumper. So he asked me "Well.....what's up with that?!?!"

Told him I was out trolling for pigs!!!!!

He never said another word....just got back in his squad car and left....never seen him the rest of the night!

 

[themechanic]

Some of you guys have an evil streak.

 

[Ron H]

Yeah – had a couple Halloween’s being a ****-wad with a few buds in the neighborhood. One time got up on the roof with a dozen eggs tossing them and then the late-nite stomping of pumpkins. Got to feeling guilty about it giving it up. But, a few decades later when we did up the Halloween décor for our kids, I received some payback for the **** I did. Ya know spend an hour with your kids cutting out faces on their pumpkins to find them the next morning smashed on the driveway. Yep sometimes what comes around goes around. lol

 

[themechanic]

It sucks when the kids get so wasted 5hey TP the wrong house.

 

[themechanic]

I remember the vinyl mask costume with the thin rubber band that always snapped. Oklahoma is still warm around October making for a sweaty face.