Halloween when you were a kid: fun, not fun, never did it, etc ?

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7. Always turned so cold we had to cover our costumes with coats--bummer.

The best house in the neighborhood was immediately "known" as there was a line running around the corner. Typically it was a house owned by the guy who worked for a candy distributor and would give out entire full-size boxes of chocolate-covered cherries or the like... Great for gluttonous kids...LOL We did have little lanterns we carried shaped like pumpkins--that were glass! Unbelievable now, but I don't recall us ever breaking one. Not sure how long my Mom had had them (my guess they were older than the time), but she pulled them out every year.

No, this was a bit later than your period, but we also didn't have to worry about x-raying candy. I can even remember eating a caramel apple collected on the "rounds." And older, but still pretty young kids could go house to house without adults.

And, I never recall any vandalism--even "TPing" a house that was ignoring Halloween.

Outside of the disappointment re: showing off costumes, it was a good time. I feel badly that things have changed so dramatically since then.