Best Time of the Year
Isn’t October wonderful? When else can we all revert back to childhood and be kids again? (Answer: every day if one plays enough Mad Dog Macree…that was one awesome Atari game.) Halloween time is a great chance to dress up like something crazy, or in the words of Mean Girls “dress like a hooker” and go crazy. Its an interesting holiday if you think about it. Small kids in costume go door to door searching for candy, carving pumpkins, smashing them…Billy Corgan. But where did all these tradition begin? With out consulting any outside resources, I will tell you MY Version of the History of Halloween.
In the Beginning
Halloween began many years ago in a time called “The 1960s”. WW11 had been over for a bit and people were looking for a reason to be angry again. Soon, somewhere in New York, armed thugs decided instead of holding up a drugstore dressed in the usual nylon cap and black ensemble, they’d don football uniforms and red dye…starting the first “dead football team” costumes. Then small children, wanting to get in on the fun of thugery, began dressing up in various outfits and holding up their neighbors for cash and jewelery while their parents waited in the car.
Modern day Halloween-ery
After the rash of armed robberies, police decided to mainstream the concept and encourage children to “rob” people of store-bought candy each October. They allowed them to maintain a “Trick or Treat” clause, providing that any house bereft of sweet hand-outs would be toilet papered, “forked”, or vandalized in any way the youth saw fit.
So, that’s where Halloween comes from. There are a few other details, but I really don’t want to bore you. Consult your local library for books on the 1960′s dawn of Halloween, or “Hell, man! That kid’s a wiener Day”, as it was called at the time.
