It looked like a ghost on a mound of snow (coincidence). I remember the blizzard of 1991 and how the Halloween button that year came out in September. One year, I was in grade school trick-or-treating when a guy wouldn’t give me any treats because he said I was too big. I remember being babsat at my other grandparent’s house and my aunts painted Halloween scenes on the front window like the windows downtown. After the parade, we went back to the classroom and got a plastic trick-or-treat bag with a “McGruff the Crime Dog” Anoka Police Department coloring book and popcorn ball in it and then went home for the day. The last year I was in the Kiddie Parade, I was a hippie along with about a dozen other students. Stephen’s with a vinyl, one-piece costume that had a plastic mask that was hard to see out of. I marched in the Kiddie Parade multiple years at St. I got an apple from one house and tossed it - I didn’t’ want the juice wrecking the candy. I also traded candy with other kids for additional half dollars. I remember trick-or-treating in the neighborhood one year and getting a half dollar from one house and then going ack again to get another. I remember trick-or-treatinhg with a plastic pumpkin throughout our apartment building on Garfield Street and going to my grandparents’ house each year to get a special bag of candy.
We became so upset that Mom took us to Snyder’s Drug to buy a toy for each of us. We were too small to catch or get any candy that was being tossed into the crowds. My earliest memory is watching the Grande Day Parade with my mom and younger brother, Stephen.
John Jost Anoka Halloween Memories, excerpt from Anoka Halloween 100th Anniversary
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