Halloween in the 1980s - Life in America
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Halloween was awesome in the 80's. It seemed like you would see thousands of people in costumes. It was just something that isn't there anymore.
The country is too old now. The 80s and 90s were the last time that the kids of baby boomers were trick or treating.
#Facts! Cheers 🍻 to us GEN X (1965-79)
True, but fortunately Halloween is still a very big thing even though it has morphed into something different. While kids do less trick or treating, its still a very big adult holiday, I have seen several articles saying that its the third biggest money making day behind only Christmas and Thanksgiving.
Not in LA! It’s the best here. We go all out.
@@MsHeartIsArtI concur…it’s rocking out in Southern California.
God Blessed The 80’s. It was So Magical. .That’s Why Everyone Watches the 80’s
So true
Nothing better than Halloween and Christmas in the 80’s, by far the best decade. Thanks for the walk down memory lane! 👍
It really was a fun time growing up back then, I remember really enjoying the holidays so much. Looking back there was almost a different feel to society unlike today, it's hard to describe unless you experienced those days. I'm so glad I was able to live in that time I miss them more than ever before 🤔
I agree with you. I miss those days too 😢
Me too...i'm a 70's kid, my teen years were the early-mid 80's, those were great times back then.
Yep I turned 13 in 1980. I love the tech we have today, but am glad I grew up without it. I have no children of my own, but I’m an honorary Aunt to a 13 year old neighbor boy and it seems it hasn’t done him any favors. When I tutor him I have to put his phone across the room because he will subconsciously reach for it and start looking at it aimlessly. He was genuinely confused when I told him how rude it was. It’s not just tech, something else is different from when I was his age it’s just difficult to define.
I couldn’t agree more! I went from ages 10-19 from 1980-1989, and the holidays had so much more feeling in them then now a days. I remember how fun it was to show your costume to your friends at school. And the really cool teachers would come to school in costumes too! Maybe it’s just because I’m getting so much older,,, but These days it just feels like all the magic has gone 😞
I agree. It was a fantastic decade to grow up. There is definitely a different feel out there. Also, I think I enjoy Halloween more than my kids do.
I remember I went out as an army soldier in 1984 in dad's hunting camo, boots and a real (unloaded) 22 long rifle. Man oh man that shit would never fly today. I really miss the 80's
I went as a bank robber one year. Talk about things not flying today. Around 1989.
A great collection ❗👻🎃I most definitely would love more. The 80s was my favorite. The best...Movies,Cartoons, Music,TV Shows, Toys, Breakfast Cereals, Saturday Morning Cartoons, Commercials, Clothes, Music Videos, Hairstyles, Advertising Jingles , and made for TV Holiday specials ❗😭
Any body remember the McDonald's Ice Cream coupon books? My mom use to get a whole bunch of those and give out. I think the proceeds went to Ronald Mc Donald House.
My brothers & I, we were a bit greedy in the 80s. We'd change costumes, grab different pillow cases & walk the circuit again!
We used to have an old lady in the neighborhood who would make us sign a notebook because she handed out fudge she made, and kids would change and go back. XD
The mask that cut your lips, had a ring of sweat around the inside mouth, and the rubber band that broke halfway through the night!
Ahhh...memories lol
Yup we had no choice we got what our parents picked out or could afford sometimes we had to make our own costumes with creativity were some fun times
Yep
Y'all talking back in the day, great memories❤ As soon as our plastic costumes hit a railing or something sharp, the costume was done😆 Aunt Michelle or Mom used to carry tape. My vampire cape used to always get ripped on a railing.
Finally, a road I actually recollect.
Even though I was born in the early 70s most of my memories of Halloween growing up were in the 80s. We had everything from plastic store bought costumes with a plastic mask to making or assembling our own costumes and using makeup to do our faces. We were driven most places as we lived in a rural area and with the exception of a couple of streets and a handful of spots where there were houses that were next door to each other it was sometimes a mile or more between houses. In an area with no sidewalks. There were even houses that would serve treats like peanuts in the shells or cups of soda to the adults during which time all the kids would trade candy with friends and see who had gone to which houses already so we could find out who on our route still had the good things. If you heard that someone was giving out homemade popcorn balls or caremel apples that was the place to beg to be taken too next as you did not want them to run out or to decide it was time fo call it a night.
As a young boy we remember one house that gave out dollar bills . That was always the first one to go to. Thanks for sharing this with us that watch your channel. Outstanding job sir.
i do remember where i lived there was a couple of houses that gave out quarters
@@cabbitkisser2620 it's was fun wasn't it, we wanted to be first so as in case they ran out of money. Thanks for the reply.
In the’80’s we always went to a house that gave out full size candy bars. It was about 15 steps to get to their front door but it was worth it.
One women used to give us a 1 dollar coin
When I was young dollar bills would've been a bit much but one year a house did give out half dollars. We thought we were rich!!!
If porch lights were on, you kept going for more candy. There were no trick or treat hours prescribed by officialdom. It could be raining or snowing, but no serious kid went home when the weather got bad.
Yes, that is a big plus of the not so distant past, the fact that weather did not stop people from living. It is not like that now, the cancelations for one snowflake fallen are ridiculous. I'm 51 and I was never allowed to stay home during ice storms, heavy snow accumulation, burning hot weather, thunderstorms. My minimum wage jobs would fire me if I even called off for ANY REASON for more than one day. If you didn't come back the second day, you received "you're fired" and it didn't matter how good of an employee you were. U.S. is falling apart now due to "cancel because thought I saw snow."
As soon as school let out until no more house lights without regard to time or weather the good old days
Halloween in the 80s was just a crazy time, kids everywhere, running around the neighborhood like banshees. No parents trailing behind... It was nuts and we all had a great time!
I would say trick or treating in the mall became a thing too with the explosive growth of larger shopping malls in the suburbs during the 80's.
I forgot about this, but you’re right. I worked in retail at a mall from 83 to 86 and I remember trick-or-treaters going from store to store and thinking how weird it was. Sad, really. I think the Tylenol scare was what caused the shift.
Plus the schools parades in elementary school going from classroom to classroom then the Halloween party afterwards
I was a teenager in the 1980s…we had a lot of fun.
Oh yeah, my halloween days came to an end in the 80's. 😢 By 1980, i no longer wore a costume. My last trick or treat was 1981. Halloween was one of my favorite "holidays" at the time...i would've trick or treated until 18 but at 13 i had early puberty and my voice changed. People stopped giving me candy because they said i was too old. I did get a lot of candy that night(10/31/81)but me and my friends(who were teens too)had to go farther out and knock on more doors to get candy. That was it, after that, it was halloween parties for me.✌🏾
My last Trick or Treat was 1981 too. I was "getting too old" for that too, so I had big plans for Halloween 1982. I was taking over handing out candy at our house and decorated the garage up spooky to hand out the treats........but the Tylenol tampering scare hit right before Halloween in 1982. It killed Trick or Treating that year as parents were really paranoid about tampering with candy too since someone had been able to do it to medicine. We had 2 Trick or Treaters the whole night. I was so bummed! LOL It took years in my old neighborhood to get Trick or Treating back to the glory years of the 1970s levels. The paranoia killed Trick or Treating for years in my old neighborhood. Parties with people you trusted seemed to take over for the rest of the 1980s.
My last trick or treat was 1987, after that year my mother said "No more Trick or Treating for you, your your too old for it!". I then discovered cosplay at Sci-Fi conventions and could still continue to dress up minus the candy, but I got something better than candy, and that's convention merch!
I miss the 80s, although my trick-or-treating era was in the 70s.
I miss being young.
My dad ate more candy than he gave away. Happy Halloween 🎃.
In the early 80’s when I was in middle school 7th and 8th grade, you would end up creating something homemade with make up. It wasn’t cool to be caught in a full store bought plastic costume or with having your parents trick or treat with you. My favorite was the homes that put effort into the decorations. I go all out on Halloween decorations today, our local kids love it and we get to know our neighbors! 👻💀
We never had parents tag along. This was before trunk or treat and mall trick or treating was popular, the last good decade where kids could roam free without helicopter moms.
These last 2 Halloween episodes were awesome!! Based on my age my prime time trick or treating timeline was like 75-85. We could trick or treat all night. No timelines. It started when it got dark enough to see who had their lights on and ended when all lights were off. What memories!
It was a great time. I remember dressing up as an undead coal miner, complete with hat with a working lamp on it (Dad was a real miner) and hiding around the side of the house. After the kids would get their candy I walk around to the front moaning and the kids would scream and run. After a couple dropped their bags an kept running, I decided to quit doing it. Also, my girlfriend didn't think it was funny at all.
Reminds me of another something 80's
..the movie "My Bloody Valentine" 💔⛏️
This opened up so many childhood memories. Shame schools don’t celebrate Halloween like they did when I was a kid
I’m a child of the 60s/70s, and we had classroom Halloween parties at our school. “Room mothers” would bring cupcakes and punch, we wore our costumes, and spent the last hour of the day having a little party. I have some very fond memories of those parties (we had Christmas, too) and really looked forward to them as a child. Sad that they’ve taken those types of memories from today’s kids due to political correctness. I’m so glad I was a kid when I was!
The lengths people would go to decorating some houses was dope! There was always the one house on the block, that killed it.
I never understood why the Ben Cooper plastic costumes had a picture of the person you were on the shirt part. I remember we would stay out till 10pm trick or treating, pillow case full of candy and no parents. Just the neighborhood kids all together. What an amazing time.
Ahh.. the memories ☺️😊!!
Thanks man 👍🏼
This was great 🎉
That's the era I went trick or treating in. It was always myself and two friends, and we had a lot of fun. And sure, I remember the Happy Meal baskets---I think they called them McBoo?
But the Happy Meal buckets were so small. I could only do one street with them before dumping them at home and go on to the next block! I went back to big plastic bags the next year. LOL
Yup and Taco Bell gave out Halloween bags to I remember and the school libraries with bear essential news paper by the end of the school day were some good times
Pillowcase all the way
So grateful I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s. Such a wonderful time to be a kid!! 🙏👍
Your video hit it right on.I was working already but still managed to carve pumpkins and watch Disney's Ichabod Crane to keep the spirit alive.
Same here! Still love that movie. Even went to school near Sleepy Hollow 🎃👻
@@samanthab1923 oh wow...cool!!
This is SOOO awesome!!!! TY!!!
The 80s really was the best decade for being a kid during the holidays! We were probably the last generation to get to freely run around in the streets on Halloween night with our friends without adult supervision. We got to freely celebrate Halloween and Christmas at school. Always looked forward to those class parties 🎉. Now-a-days, kids don't have that kind of freedom.
I was 16 in the late early eighties and it was a blast when we would dress up and go to a party! I made all my own costumes and one was a refrigerator and I won 1st prize at a bar! Lol! Love Halloween and it so happens that my 1st son was born on Halloween in 1990! Oh how I loved making costumes for him! Then he wanted to pick his own by the age of 8.
My mother passed away from ALS on October 31, 1990. I will never forget that day.
I was born in 1992. Your son and I as millenials definitely didn’t get to experience the fun times of your younger years
Glad you mentioned the Halloween pranks. Indeed it sucked for those who got their homes egged. I know some homes that didn't provide treats ended up getting egged.
Forgot all about this until I watched this video, but the first time I did mescaline was Halloween 1981, I was 15. double barrel purple. Iron Maiden Killers, of course some Purple Haze, Van Halen 1. As I think back, it was an amazing day and night. We were all like 'I don't feel anything'... 'nothings happening', 'this was fake shit' for about 45 minutes, then bam, we were all tripping balls for the next 6 hours.
Outstanding
Fear and Loathing on Halloween, eh?
I was born 1972, and I remember trick or treating from around 1977 to 1988 or so. The best years of my life!
I've recently picked up a 90's McDonald's pumpkin candy pail from a thrift store, got it on display in my room with a little pumpkin guy "plush" sitting on top of it!
I think I still have some from when my son was little in the 90's.
@@samanthab1923 Cool!
I was a kid in the 90's and I remember multiple years getting one of them buckets !
I handmade my son an elaborate “hook” costume! I wish I could be added to this video! He won three prizes with it and was put in the newspaper in 1989.
Greatest decade ever! Would love to go back and stay there.
My mother bought several Halloween records during late 70's - early 80's with spooky stories and sound effects. I've listened to them every year since (40+ years) and now with my wife and kids. However, I think I enjoy listening more than my kids do. One of my favorite is an old Winchell's Donut paper/plastic record which was given for free and finishes with a Winchell's commercial.
In the 50s or 60s adults never even gave a second thought to think of inspecting kids candy. People just were not that vile back then.
Thanks for sharing my childhood era I do miss the 1980s we’re some good times I remember going with friends or vice versa on bikes
My TIME! I sure do miss the 80s!! THE BEST MOVIES MUSIC the ERA of overindulgence But SO GOOD!! ..🥰🥰😍
I worked for a large company. At Halloween our department wore costumes. After work we went to a club that had Halloween costume contests. It was amazing to see the incredible costumes some people wore!
80’s Halloween brought me so much happiness. My school had a little carnival every year. I’ll never forget it.
Oh I miss the 80's. Never got to go as what I really wanted because we couldn't afford some of the costumes but I always had fun. We always resorted to making our own costumes. Once my sister dressed all us girls as punk rockers but I was really young and had no idea what that was lol. Also I remember my dad always dragging out the food coloring to paint our faces with. One year when I was 10 I remember my dad actually allowing us the buy store bought masks. They were cheaper masks but still it was the best Halloween cause I loved the little devil mask I picked out and he even let me buy a plastic pitch fork to go with it. Wasn't used to store bought costumes of any sort so it really meant a lot to me. That was the same night I went to my cousin's house and watched Pumpkinhead. Scared me to death. Seriously was the best Halloween ever. 🎃 Oh and I for sure had that Trick or Treat bag with the witch on the broomstick at the 0:58 mark. I think some sort of restaurant gave them out but I'm not sure.
We lived in a neighborhood where everyone knew each other and our kids had to stay on those streets. They also went in groups. It was fun being a parent then.
By the 1990s when I finally lived in a place that was open to the street and trick or treaters, I tended to be a bit predictable on the candy I gave out, usually restricting it to factory wrapped fun sized kind just so it wouldn't end up being thrown away later!
When I was trick or treating people still gave out homemade treats like caramel apples and popcorn balls! I loved those. But a few years into it freaks started putting razor blades and dope in them so Mom would throw them out. It was good while it lasted. :/
I loved that so many people decorated there home up , you don’t see it very often anymore
Definitely my era .starting in the 80 s.thank you so much for sharing this .80s was a fun time for Halloween 🎃🎃
Anyone remember getting packs of trading cards in the 70s/80s? I remember the Fun Packs of 79 and 1980 getting those 3 strip basketball card packs.
Oh wow 🎃 The 1980s was such a good time. Things felt good, different exciting. I always looked forward to Autumn and all of the holidays coming up. My mom would decorate the house and have a Fall candle burning. When we all got off the bus and saw our house. Well we felt like we had the best house ever. We did all kinds of fall activities and festivals. Not only was it going to be Halloween but my Birthday is the day before Halloween. So it was twice the excitement and the fun. Thank you for this. I lost my younger sister and she was a big part of my life. We love Halloween. Don't know about my older brothers anymore. LoL. Thank you 🎃💀🦇👻
The last couple years of elementary school and the first year of junior high (after that, we thought it was "uncool"), a bunch of us neighborhood kids tick or treated together in a large group all night (with one of the kids' older brother as "chaperone"). Some kids knew where the best houses were (ones that gave out full size candy bars or snack size bags of chips). We'd all have pillow cases and they'd get filled up. I remember dressing up as a punk rocker once or twice, but the last year out, I borrowed my cousin's Little League uniform and went as a baseball player. I remember in 6th grade, a couple boys in my class dressed as girls for class Halloween party and they were a smash hit. Didn't think they could top it, but the next year they dressed up as nuns. LOL!!
Happy to have been a kid in the 80s, I remember our parents dropping us off at one block and picking us up on the other end of of it, and then taking us to the next block over. I also remember there being a lot more Halloween props outside peoples homes. Was a great time for spooky season!
Not in the 1980's, but, in the 1970's here in San Diego there was kind of an urban legend that in the upperclass neighborhood of La Jolla they were giving out five and ten dollar bills to kids.
I was living in San Diego in the 80s... Except for my high school years, I just cant recall much of Halloween for some reason😟 I do recall the appearance of awesome latex/rubber masks, and the coolest horror movies -especially "Lost Boys".
I was a pillowcase ToTer. I was 8 in 1980 so I trick or treated until about 1986. I was C3po, Dracula, The Grim reaper and a slew of various chars. GREAT time to be a kid. Well EXCEPT 1982, when that damn Tylenol incident CANCELLED Halloween for us :(
I loved Halloween in the 80's it was a great time to go trick or treating I remember living in ky for a period and they would block the roads and when people would get out of their cars to move the said blockage we would pelt them with water ballons or rotten eggs lol but living in the city in Knoxville was even better we had parties and we always would gather large amounts of candy and the drive in was awesome with lots of Halloween movies and then there was the festivals.........
I remember going outside as a kid and seeing dozens of people with their kids just all over the streets. You dont see that anymore
That brought back a lot of memories for me. I was born in November of 1972, but remember the 80s a lot better. I'm 50, and I still celebrate Halloween.
aww, those little kids were so--- holy kraut! they're in their 40s!
50s for some of them.
I am 32 and I didn’t start trick or treating consciously until the mid 90s.
Yeah, I know!😞 I was probably those kid's ages when their photos were took give, or take a few years. I just turned 47 a couple days ago. Time flies by fast that's for sure.
I was raised JW in the 80s and got sent to the library to play computer games whenever there was a Halloween (or birthday/ Christmas) party at school.
The 80s and 90s was the golden age for Halloween
I remember my mom burning a cork one year and rubbing the ash all over my face and she made me a nap sack and I went as a hobo
Totally unacceptable now days 🙄
Thank you for the great memories
Only a mother would know that burning a cork would produce ash suitable for hobo'ing, lol! We used honey and coffee grounds for our hobo beards 😆
Screw PC.
I remember my cousin showing up at our house to go trick or treating with us dressed as Aunt Jemima.
a "hobo-sexual" would be a costume to really trigger.
Yessss! Halloween in the 1980s was the absolute BEST!!!!!
I remember those elementary school Halloween parades. And Halloween parties at my grandpa's place.
It was the best! Our parents wouldn't go out with us, but give us to our older siblings to mind and our older siblings knew all the best neighborhoods for candy. I came back with 3 full paper bags of candy one year, and felt cool for spending Halloween with the high schoolers. Came home, spent the rest of the night watching the Halloween fare on the Disney Channel (back when it was awesome) and ate candy in my crusty face paint. Good times!
Another great video Recollection Road and it gets my 👍👍
Absolutely love these videos. Keep them coming!
Oh, the memories of me as a clown. And also as the Zorro. Won 1st place at school. Greetings/Saludos desde Panamá!
I have no idea how I discovered RR but I’m addicted. Halloween in the 80’s as a kid was me. I was a storm trooper, darth vader and Mu'ammar Al-Qadhdhāfī. I didn’t know he was a world leader’s face I just thought it was ugly and creepy looking.
I was a kid in the 80's, I used to sit in school and draw a map of the neighborhood and plan out our trick or treating route.
I still remember the smell of the vinyl jumpsuit and mask from those Ben Cooper cake box costumes. Oh, and the Halloween commercials on TV. Such a fantastic time to be a kid.
Me: "Mom, Can I get eggs and toilet paper for Halloween this year?"
Mom: "No, you're too old for that."
Me: "Too old? Last year, I was too young!!!"
Mom: " With inflation eggs are too expensive and with the supply chain issues there ain't no toilet paper"
I remember going trick-or-treating, and then taking the candy to the hospital to the X-ray room to inspect the candy.
Child of the 60s & 70s here...that’s just sad ☹️
@@jpeek1009 It was all pure paranoia and rumors ... people weren't really putting LSD and razor blades in kid's treats bags. Even as a kid I thought all that stuff was stupid.... just like the 'satanic panic' that was buzzing during that era. Goofy ass parents believing all that crap. 😂
Very cool!. My father-in-law used to sit in the front yard with the water hose. If a teen attempted to toilet paper his tree, they would need to change their clothing from being soaked.
The 80s were the greatest. Period. I remember my teachers dressing up for Halloween - and having the costume parade you mentioned. I specifically remember my 2nd grade teacher Mrs Faley dressing up as Charlie Chaplin. I was GI JOE that year (1986). I literally remember those McDonald’s happy meal Halloween buckets like it was yesterday - I got the pumpkin one multiple times and wanted the ghost one so bad!
Spot on!!! It was a wonderful time... I miss the feel of those days!
1983 was the last year I trick or treated. But during my teen years I was the designated candy distributor. I always gave extra candy for the best costumes.
Fun post. I was WAY past TnT- ing by then. I gonna check your channel to watch some 70,s Halloween posts . Now THOSE were the days for Halloween.
I was a kid in the early-mid 80s. It was a MAGICAL time!
And Halloween was no exception!! I lived for it. We had epic Halloween parties, went trick or treating in the most beautiful and wholesome neighborhood in Pittsburgh. We used pillow cases to collect candy! And my brother and I would go back to our best friends house for candy trading and a smorgasbord of food and homemade pies and desserts!! We were up all night. There was no time like it. Best era of my life 🎃👻🪄🦄🧛♂️🥰
The 80's was interesting in that EVERYTHING seemed geared toward KIDS / Childhood. All the Holiday TV specials for Halloween, Christmas ---- even Thanksgiving. EVERY STORE seemed to have a huge "Toy Section".....even the Drug stores! Everyone seemed to be making so much EFFORT for kids.
I once went as Oliver Twist. "Please, Sir..I want a some more!" I did well that night!
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I remember trick or treating all over the place with my friends when we were maybe 11-12 years old. No adults with us, out until around 9pm with our parents having no idea where we were precisely. There were no cell phones. It was pandemonium out there! Roving bands of teenagers were always laying in wait, ready to attack with raw eggs and water balloons filled with food coloring. Houses were TP'd and shaving cream epitaphs were written on car windshields. Good times.
Good thing you didn’t make it to the 90s to make me feel REALLY old.
Thank you for putting together this video! I was born in 1979, so the 80s was my whole childhood. I totally had one of those McDonald's plastic pumpkins! I also had a bunch of those infamous Ben Cooper and other packaged plastic costumes; I can feel myself breathing under that stupid mask to this day! But man, Halloween in the 80s was fabulous!
Love my plastic pumpkin! We have a few blow molds and paper decorations still.
Love this video and reading all the comments below! 1980's Halloween kid here! it was seriously THE BEST generation for Halloween and we are so lucky to have experienced it...my advise to all the parents out there is to try and re-create a 1980's vibe for your kids as much as you can! 80's Halloween cartoons and movies, decorations and an old'fashined Halloween party at your house with our music! heck, you can even play spooky sounds from youtube or Halloween commercials from the 80s in the background hahaha Thats what I will be doing with my little one!! HAPPY HALLOWEEN from The Queen of Halloween :)
Damn..... just take me back please. I was born in 87, but I can remember this magic still lasting into the early 90s. Those years of trick or treating were the most memorable Ive ever had... Im not sure what has changed..or why...but there use to be so many kids pouring all over the area
This was so wonderfully done with great presentation, production and narration. Great job and you have gained a new subscriber 😎 Keep up the wonderful work! 10/10 😁
We made our own popcorn balls to pass out. Always enjoyed parading around to each school room in costume.
Happy to say my dear mom had so many ideas for a genuine Halloween costume for us kids. We never ever bought them plastic or prefabbed costumes! Happy Halloween, everyone! 🎃👻🔜🎄 lol
I love your content! Thanks so much for this. I was a child of the 80s and had the exact same plastic Garfield costume many of the kids in these pix are wearing. I also remember mom making us swear not to eat any of our candy until she had inspected it for razor blades. Can’t believe it’s been 40 years.
I wore those plastic costume's with windows on the box that shows the mask before you'er parents can buy them. funny thing was' those costumes were plastic. But they lasted well through the nigth.
As a late 80s kid, it brings back memories!
I had an interesting Halloween 1983!
Mischief Night as a teen. The Delaney's. Egged every year! Mr. Delaney was a duck with an "i" and so was his oldest son Brian. But it wasn't me, lol.
The best times was Halloween in the 80’s. Going to toys r us for the plastic costume. Barbie or strawberry shortcake. I miss my childhood at the holidays.
It was a fun time growing up in the 1980s. Halloween was a really fun time of year getting candy sigerrets carving pumpkin's and staying out till 10 pm trickertreting with my brother and friends. Yes parents bought their kids Halloween costumes but home made costumes were still popular. My mom made me an Indian and my broth a clown costumes for howllowen later I wore the clown costume. Then I went as an army guy for years it was fun.
Can't believe you said "candy cigarettes!" I use to buy those at a corner store and I would hold one in my hand and blow the dust or smoke out and pretend I was smoking. It was fun and then I ate it. Ha, ha, ha, ha.....
And in real life, I have never been a smoker. People would never believe that a teenager fake smoked with candy cigarettes and then never became a smoker or even interested in smoking in reality. But it's true.
Great Halloween episodes through the decades, all of them are cool and helped bring back a lot cool memories 👍👍
I was a teenager in the 80s. Turned 13 in 1980. One year I was Ace Frehley from Kiss. Another year I went as Adam Ant. LOL and I’m female. Definitely walked to a different drummer especially for that time. Also seemed like the best candy (Snickers, M&Ms) was confiscated as suspect by my Dad. Hmmmm. That awful stuff in either black or orange wax paper never got taken by him. If anything was poisoned that crap certainly was!
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Your Dad did that too, huh? 😂 I remember spreading out my trick or treat loot on the living room carpet and he would look it over and say “hmm, not sure about that one...I’d better eat it to make sure it’s safe” 😂😂😂
This was so Spot On!!!! So many damn memories!