Like Tina's experience, there was a woman who lived at the top of the hill from my Grandmother's house in San Francisco. Every Halloween, she would give us kids a small jar of pennies. Now, I don't know if she gave every kid a jar, that would have been a fortune! Maybe she knew which ones lived on her street, who knows. But, although I can't remember her name, I certainly remember the very unusual treat.
A pirate - arrrggghhh! We decorated our front porch a la Pirates of the Caribbean long before Johnny Depp's movie. I had a line of torches along the walkway to our door, a real treasure chest made of an antique camelback trunk, and lots of silky looking drapes surrounding an antique Spanish chair. It was fun and the neighborhood kids totally "got" it. Too bad they didn't "get" Christopher Columbus meets the West Indians another year. They also got the Headless Horseman - that's another story - and having to reach into Dracula's cardboard castle to fish treats out of a bowl of gummy worms (ewww!).
Halloween is such a fun event! The dentists around town look forward to it, as well, haha!
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Like Tina's experience, there was a woman who lived at the top of the hill from my Grandmother's house in San Francisco. Every Halloween, she would give us kids a small jar of pennies. Now, I don't know if she gave every kid a jar, that would have been a fortune! Maybe she knew which ones lived on her street, who knows. But, although I can't remember her name, I certainly remember the very unusual treat.
A pirate - arrrggghhh! We decorated our front porch a la Pirates of the Caribbean long before Johnny Depp's movie. I had a line of torches along the walkway to our door, a real treasure chest made of an antique camelback trunk, and lots of silky looking drapes surrounding an antique Spanish chair. It was fun and the neighborhood kids totally "got" it. Too bad they didn't "get" Christopher Columbus meets the West Indians another year. They also got the Headless Horseman - that's another story - and having to reach into Dracula's cardboard castle to fish treats out of a bowl of gummy worms (ewww!).
Halloween is such a fun event! The dentists around town look forward to it, as well, haha!
September 16, 2008 - 4:19pmThis Comment
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