Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your Favorite Hallowe'en Memory

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:

It's Saturday Night again -

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Randy Seaver of GeneaMusing has our assignment today:

Hey boys and girls, it's only two days after Hallowe'en, and time for some Saturday Night Genealogy Fun!

Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!):

1) Think about your most memorable Hallowe'en - was it when you were a child (candy, games, carnivals), a teenager (tricks and treats), or an adult (perhaps a party)? 

2) Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post of mine, or in a comment on Twitter or Facebook in response to this post. 

3) Have fun!

I have no photos of me in a Halloween costume. I do remember Trick or Treating. We would do the few houses on our block first, then either walk over to Alpine Road and hit those houses, or our parents drove us to another neighborhood. In the 60s, most kids stopped Trick or Treating by 7th or 8th grade. Today, it seems more kids in high school dress up and go out than ever before.

With our daughters, we mostly did the Trick or Treating along Palm Ave, the next block over. It’s a great street that has many houses all decorated for Halloween. We always went out as a family. Our own block is short and dark, and we never get any Trick or Treaters. It was always fun going out with the girls, until they got older and wanted to go out with their own friends.

As for parties, my mother liked to host Halloween parties and we would all dress up. One year she had a pumpkin carving party and those who wanted to enter brought along their carved up pumpkins. It was lots of fun.

Here are some shots from the party in 1983 at the old house. I’m the ghost. 

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