Halloween Memories From Years Ago (1950s-1980s)

Christmas then Halloween...kids favorite holidays!!

🛑🛑 The most fun we had in the late 60’s and 70’s was going out at night and Tick Tacking!!💯

We would to a local corn field, and picked the dried corn from the fields. 🌽

We would the “wring” the corn colonels off the cob into bags.
Then at night 6 or so of we kids, would throw hand fulls of corn at windows and aluminum siding, at the same time.
It would scare folks who were watching tv inside the house, as we all “Tick Tacked” the whole house.

It was so fun. 😀👍💯

I remember looking down the street and seeing a line of trick or treaters as far as you could see.

I got diabetes from 1960s Halloween... I miss the good old days

This brings such special memories of my Halloween years in the 50’s & 60’s. Homemade costumes, chilli and friends. Life was so simple and sweet then. Now our kids and grandkid’s lives are commodified into something that does not belong to them.

Ben Cooper, cancer in a bag. we all wore them, we're gonna pay for it later

I have the best memories as a child during the 70's and 80's! My Mom would have these awesome Halloween parties for us as kids she went All out with the candy cakes and decorations! We even bobbed for apples, "I know! So Gross!" But boy did we have fun! 🥰🍂🍁🧡🖤🕸️🕷️👻🎃 Good Times!!!

My weirdest Halloween memory was from the 1970s and essentially the first snopes debunk I ever heard. I don't know how it started or spread, as I was a young kid, but it was just as bad as the internet today. Someone, somehow, had spread the gossip of random psycbo people putting razor blades in apples and Halloween candy before giving them to kids. So I was not allowed to eat any until my parents had thoroughly checked it all. Suffice to say nobody in any of my parents' network of families ever found a single thing, nor did I ever hear of any actual occurrence of anyone finding one.

I was lucky growing up before the crazy stuff. July 63. Lived in NJ tell 7 trick or treat was fun.
7 to 9 rural MD not enough candy. Then 9 to 19 rural mountains of Western NC. Poverty stricken but Halloween was still fun.
With my kids we lived in NW GA just below Chattanooga, 1996 there were a few streets that were still like the past. I talked to the police then talked to all the people to make sure before trick or treat. I guess all the crazy effected me, but still fought it. K-Mart still sold costumes.

Groups of kids on every gathering on street corners to gather intel from each other on which houses gave the best stuff. Also during the candy inspection at the end of the night you had to pay the Dad tax.

Mischief night the night before Halloween was the night we used to go and throw eggs, soap windows, sprayed shaving cream, amd threw ttoilet paper and on peoples houses and cars etc

We had to stop giving Halloween candy to Trick or Treaters due to the pandemic back in 2018.

We resumed (albeit to smaller groups) in 2022.

One granny made caramel apples, the other made popcorn balls. Once a year treats!

Some fun movies for this time of year: Casper, Witches of Eastwick, Beetlejuice, and Wizard of Oz. They are scary enough for me.

So much has been lost...

Growing up in the late 60's and 70's I would get so much candy at Halloween that I'd have to put them in the freezer and it would last through Christmas sometimes longer. Back then we had FULL SIZE of everything, Hershey bars in particular were my favorite. I had stacks and stacks of them! - and we went out together as a group of kids, no parents necessary! No one bothered us.

We had an apple box in our garage cabinet full of the family's Halloween costumes and these sturdy printed trick or treat bags we would reuse. Some were full costumes, but there were two great rubber masks from the 50s - a witch and a devil. My brother put a costume together for the witch one year, but my mom sewed me a red suit to go with the devil mask. When we outgrew them my mom gave them to our younger cousins.

I remember the school Halloween parties! I also remember going around with my friends, trying to hit as many houses as we could. I also remember the candy being in a big bowl on top of the refrigerator afterwards! It was all a lot of fun. It's kind of sad- I think most of us at the time thought adults had all the fun and how it would be so much better being grown up. Speaking for myself, I didn't know how good I had it.

Oh boy, this brought back the memories! August 18, 1965, the Beatles performed at Atlanta Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia and I was probably the only six-year old there! That year, I got to choose my first Halloween costume all by myself and, of course, this little girl chose to be Paul McCartney! My mother was very, very confused until I explained that he was my favorite Beatle and my favorite singer! What can I say, it was the sixties! (For the record, I've played guitar and sang since then!) So far, I've still got lots of memories and I recall that the year Coca Cola put out the Peanuts cartoon special, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, on TV was the year that Halloween really ramped up into a more-than-one-night thing for me and my friends. We got to stay up and call each other for two minutes per friend before we had to go to bed! By the time my Goddaughter was trick-or-treating in the 1990s, I was making costumes for her of her favorite Disney characters. And, of course, I had to dress up too when I took her to go from house to house! We also had to watch The Great Pumpkin to see Snoopy fight the Red Baron on the doghouse! 😆 Such cool recollections indeed! Thanks! 😊

The Libtards, go out EVERYDAY, with orange, pink, green hair, with bull rings, in their noses, and some men dress up as woman, and ACTUALLY believe THEY ARE women, these men refuse to take off, of their women's costumes, AFTER Halloween., Halloween is EVERYDAY, to the "mental ill", Americans.

I remember, as a kid in the late 60’s-70’s, we used to pop popcorn and fill sandwich bags with it to hand out. There was no fear of poisoning or tampering with candy and I would hand it out to the little kids until I got in my costume to go out with my younger siblings or friends. We stayed out late, walking a mile through our middle-class neighborhoods to the next town over. No fear of abductions or nasty, bullying older kids. A few times I’d make my parents happy and was involved in Halloween parties at their church or trick or treating for UNICEF when I was a little older.

This brought back some wonderful memories of Halloween in the 70’s and 80’s! Thank you!

I love Halloween. I went to Catholic School and always had the following day off. November 1 is All Saints Day. A holy day. Thus no school. Life was swell in the 60s & 70s. You can keep the 21st century.

I'm an 80s kid here. Parents took us to the mall for trick or treating each of us carrying a grocery bag. My grandma taught us a thrift method. Buy marked down candy after Halloween and freeze for next year. Adults other than me in my age group want to dress up with their kids, do things, and get trashed later.

I loved Halloween in the 70s. A group of us would head out about dark and roam the streets of our small town for hours, bars of soap and a few eggs in hand, lol. We'd usually end up back home about 10:30 PM, worn out but with a bag full of treats!

Halloween is garbage now, everything is slutty, no scary.

I remember being a kid ,wrapping my self in strips of a torn white sheet , and no body wanted to take me trick or treating. I sat in bed sad all night ,and the bandages kept unraveling. Lol

I'm done with the commercial infested channel. It's just too many interruptions.

I remember when you was a kid my dad painted me up like Peter Criss from Kiss. But my first plastic mask costume was Casper the ghost

AFTER FINDING THE DISNEY RECORD CHILLIN', THRILLIN' SOUNDS OF HALLOWEEN I PLAYED IT HERE FOR THE 1ST TIME AND GOT FROM 50-75 KIDS TO RUNNING OUT OF CANDY 30 MINUTES AFTER. NOW WE DO A MINI GREAT HAUNT TO THE COMMUNITY AND KIDS AND PARENTS LOVE IT. THEY CAN HEAR THOSE SCREAMS FROM A BLOCK AWAY AND CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE TWO PROPERTIES WE DECORATE. ONE VERY IMPORTANT THING IS THE CANDY AS I HAVE SEEN THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN GREAT HAUNTS BUT NO CANDY IS GIVEN OUT??!!

A GREAT VIDEO FOR REMEMBERING OUR PAST FUN!!

50s and 60s Halloween nights were always cold! We had to wear coats over our costumes in Ohio. Now you could run around trick or treating dressed for the beach.

I was a kid in the 60s and I do t think as much money was spent on Halloween as people do today. Also costumes were more creative

This was a blast going down memory lane.

I grew up in the 70s, my sisters and I never brought our costumes. We did want ever we could find around the house. When my two kids came along we didn’t not them either. We never had money. My son went one Halloween went out in a Luvs diapers box.( remember those). Growing up in Pa, we use to tic tac houses. Dried up corn kennels and throw them at you windows and run. Now if you that you would get shot!! What a shame what this world has come to.😢😢

There was no such thing as “cultural appropriation “.

I was expecting KISS as 1970’s costumes!

LOVE all these vintage photos !!! I wish I'd known to save some of the 1970's Halloween decorations from my childhood-! Who knew I'd wish I had them now, for the "retro" look.

1970's---My older brother and I sorted and alphabetized our HUGE amounts of candy, then traded. And we still laugh about the neighbors who gave out old pennies.

I WISH I'd kept my adorable Casper the Friendly Ghost outfit and mask from the 70's.

The 50s and 60s looked like so much fun. Trick or treat. Booo ghost 👻 Omg 😲 yes the Monster Mash, a graveyard smash and that horrid wax candy.

And a happy Halloween to all. I remember all of the years you reference. The wax harmonica was just the best! What a memory! The porch light is on….

Kid from 70s and early 80s

There was a lady in my neighborhood who always made fresh donuts for Halloween treats. I miss the 60s

One of the saddest parts of childhood Halloween is in that first year when you're told that you're too old to trick-or-treat, so the childhood experience is no longer yours to enjoy.

We lived in the last best decades of the 70’s and 80’s. Halloween was the official kickoff to all the holidaysthat would follow for us as kids. We got homemade popcorn balls, full-size candy bars, homemade fudge, money, bazooka bubblegum, candy necklaces, wax lips to name a few. We didn’t have to worry about people putting cyanide poisoning or razor blades in our candy. It just didn’t happen back then. I still have our costumes in the same boxes from the 1960s and I will not part with them. Of course, there was😢 the Charlie Brown great pumpkin special on television and all the others that we look forward to. I have great memories of those times……

I like halloween too but i do not care for the halloween masks they are now wearing. Homemade is better

In the early 80's, the country was gripped by the tragic story of Adam Walsh's kidnapping and murder. That had a LOT of parents keeping a closer eye on their kids, especially in South Florida where I was living (and where Adam Walsh lived and died for all of his six years).

What special Halloween memories do you remember?