[kaktuskid]

Used to be that Hallowe’en was an adult party thing, was not until after WW2 that the holiday was reoriented towards the kiddies.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Used to be that Hallowe’en was an adult party thing, was not until after WW2 that the holiday was reoriented towards the kiddies."

That's not how I remember it, although I don't go back to pre-WWII. But growing up in the 50s and 60s, Halloween was almost entirely a kids' thing, and it seems that adults only started picking up on it in the 70s and 80s, when New Age and "goth" ideas began to spread.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Not true.

Kids were big into it. It just didn’t really become the “trick or treat” walk-around to get candy as it did later. Probably partly to be “safer”.

My favorite is “Meet Me in St. Louis” with the Halloween act. Get the gist of c1900 activities.