Halloween Pasts

Man, I was walking down Main Street, Sag Harbor, this afternoon and there were at least 2000 kids with their parents trick or treating store to store. 40 years ago things were different. First, No Parents. You would go out in groups of 2 to 6. You would go to any house you wanted to. There was no candy available at the stores. You would only go out when it got dark. There was no worries about eating candy received from strange houses. Unless the kids were lazy, and had their parents drive them around, they would walk around town. Once in a while a cheap asshole would give you an apple, which we proceeded to throw through his front window upon exiting their yard. Then to, you could steal pumpkins off porches and smash them in the road. Up until about 1966 Pierson held a Halloween party each year with scavenger hunts and the like. Good to see people still into holiday, although the mischief nowadays is lame.

A typical house I went to trick or treat at