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Post by teabab on Oct 5, 2009 19:26:51 GMT -4
All right it is October, and I want to hear some good old stories of Halloween in Falls creek. Trick or Treat seemed to last 2 days, and I remember Mrs. Rupp giving away quarters and people going back numerous times to her house. We got plenty of candy, and didn't the candy bars seem bigger then? When I got older we rode our bikes out to some corn fields and stole ears of corn to husk and clean. I remember my hands getting so sore from that process, but the big bag of corn was worth all the blood shed. It was a tradition to meet up with Lee Miller, convene in some back alley and plan our attack. We kept the cops and Jaycee Volunteers busy all night. Some got caught and paid the price of having their corn taken away. It could get ugly. What are your memories of Halloween? Any good ghost stories?
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Post by richard1961 on Oct 6, 2009 22:16:08 GMT -4
Who was mrs Rupp and where did she live? We use to have 3 or 4 bags of corn and hide them because if we got caught all they did was take the bag we had, then we would just go get another. Soaping was fun. I remember dressing up in school to and being judged. I seem to remember that there was a teacher or someone that lived in holly terrace that died on halloween night or something. Anyone remember anything like that or is it a ghost story?
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Post by klsm54 on Oct 6, 2009 23:51:36 GMT -4
Oh my! I would never have suspected you, teabab, to be one of those kids who terrorized the town with a bag of corn.... ;D ;D It is sort of funny how you can live in a town with people for years and not really know them. Halloween was definitely more fun in those days. We could trick or treat for two nights, non-stop from dusk until what...9:00 or 10:00 o'clock. The parade was at night, as a Halloween parade should be. And our town police kept us in line, but not so much that we couldn't have some fun and toss a little corn. I too remember stealing corn in farmers fields and getting blisters on my thumbs from shelling corn. When I was 14 I had my first job and had a few bucks in my pocket so I came up with a new plan. I gave my mother, I always conned her into these things... ,... $5.00 and asked to go to the feed store and buy me some shelled corn. Oh my, it was the mother lode of corn. Either $5.00 got you a really huge bag of corn in 1969, or mom threw in a few bucks. Anyway I didn't run out of corn that year.... ;D ;D The Halloween death was a real incident, Richard. The principal of the DuBois High School, Clinton Stewart, lived in Holly Terrace. He was harassed unmercifully during the Halloween season. I don't recall all the details, but I believe his wife died suddenly while home alone one evening near Halloween. The first stories were that she had been scared to death by the kids doing....whatever they did to harass them. I'm quite sure that it was later discovered she had died of natural causes, maybe an aneurysm, if memory serves me. But the situation created a somber mood and curbed our enthusiasm for creating mischief that Halloween season. I was not in high school yet when that happened, so I wasn't one of those who spent a lot of time in the vicinity of the Stewart residence. But a year or two earlier I was in a group who decided to venture up on the hill behind "Clink's", his nickname, house. We were bombarding the house with corn and yelling, as I recall, "Hey Clink, you stink". Well, wouldn't you know it, old Mr. Stewart was hiding in the pine trees up on that hill laying in wait for us.... He let us incriminate ourselves thoroughly and when somebody yelled, "Hey Clink", he came out of pine trees just a few feet behind us and said, in a gruff voice, "What do you want".... We took off running like the dickens and, I'll never forget this, I tripped and fell on my face. I scrambled like hell to get up and run before he caught up. Scared the crap out of us. Looking back, I think he could easily have caught us, especially me when I fell. I think he knew we were younger kids and just chased us halfheartedly, mainly in fun, to give us a little scare. I got to know him a few years later, went hunting with him several times, and he wasn't really the mean guy that he had the reputation of being.
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Post by klsm54 on Oct 7, 2009 16:29:05 GMT -4
Come on now.... I know a lot of you have stories. Don't be afraid, I sure the statute of limitations has run out by now.... ;D ;D
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Post by teabab on Oct 7, 2009 19:13:06 GMT -4
Mrs. Rupp lived up on Osborne I think??? I am not sure if that is spelled right. She was a teacher and taught a class I took at the high school, but for the life of me I can't remember the name of it! I know I got an A though! A very nice lady. I don't think they lived in Falls Creek long. Anyway, back to Halloween. I remember us throwing corn at one house and a boy, ( I won't give his name) came out and was mad. He said his parents weren't home, and we had better get out of there. He slammed the door and the whole plate glass broke! I know he caught it for that. I did do some TPing and minor soaping..... I do hope that the statute of limitations has run out! I could carry a lot of TP, soap and corn in my old CPO jacket. I wonder where that coat is?
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Post by brucie2000 on Oct 7, 2009 22:58:02 GMT -4
I do remember the two nights of trick or treating from about 5:30 until 9 or 10 at night. Always hated when they gave you an apple. They would pay for that deed with a nice handfull of hard field corn. Now one late night 2 of halloween, squeak anderson and I went in the back of Mrs Myers house across from willie daumbs (sp) house, gathered up his bird bath and hauled that joker out in the middle of 3rd st. Along came a guy just a hellin and swerved to miss the bird bath and just clipped it which caused the top to break. He hit his breaks and got stopped passed Jackson China. He ran back to the feeder, but we were long gone. He was cussing and swearing all the way back to his car. We would corn passing cars coming down 3rd street and by the time they got stopped me and the other heathen were long gone.
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Post by klsm54 on Oct 8, 2009 16:12:08 GMT -4
The term, "Street Urchin", comes to mind.... ;D
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Post by bozmom2003 on Oct 8, 2009 18:06:50 GMT -4
I remember the parade down Main St. ending at the firehall. We then walked in a circle, round and round. Judges then picked the cutest, ugliest the most original etc. I remember an old man mask with a wart on his nose which my brother and I took turns wearing, each year to win, several years in succession. Of course we all went home with bags of candy and fruit. I remember Bill Weis always dressing up too, often as an old lady...those were the days....
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Post by teabab on Oct 8, 2009 19:26:34 GMT -4
I remember Bill dressing up as an old lady too, bless his heart. Makes me sad to think of him. I still love the Charlie Brown Halloween show, "I got a rock." Was that you Brucie? Maybe those apples were rocks, did you look? You know you have to wonder how we ran the streets so freely, never worried about being abducted or anything. I feel sorry that kids do not have the freedom we had. We had it made in Falls Creek.
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Post by 3doxies on Oct 9, 2009 14:26:03 GMT -4
Oh my! Thanks for all the old memories folks....somewhere along the way I seem to have blotted out my childhood! I do remember the "corning" escapades, the parade, and "KlinK"...ah...those were the days....
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Post by loki on Oct 9, 2009 15:58:48 GMT -4
I can remember going corning with Lee Miller and the gang and stopping in front of cows house the little house behind Ron Bishops and she came out after us with a gun.. And being chased by Laird Snyder trying to get us for soaping and corning..
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Post by wildcat2 on Oct 13, 2009 20:28:17 GMT -4
Smith"s farm out side of Falls Creek past the Brick Yard is where every one got there corn, so I heard. Being the good little boy that I was, I wouldn't know any thing about corning any ones house, let alone someones car ;D
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Post by brucie2000 on Oct 13, 2009 22:06:51 GMT -4
Uh oh, there is something we call folks like WildCat2 down south. LIAR!!!! Your grubby little thumbs were raw from peeling corn off the dried cob. And we weren't stealing corn, just thinning it out so it could approach maturity at a faster pace!! Good chat from the Halloween days. Just couldn't be the season w/out watching "Its the great pumpkin Charlie Brown" How old is that toon?
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Post by teabab on Oct 18, 2009 19:24:08 GMT -4
I haven't heard some of those names in years, Cow, Clink, Willie Daumbs.... boy you do forget. I do remember the lady called Cow. And I do remember the gun incident Loki, were we nuts? I have to laugh, I had to have an MRI done recently and they asked me if I had any buckshot in me! Close to it, but no. I want to hear some ghost stories.... some of you have to have some. I saw ghosts at the Falls Creek School one night. A couple of Sentries and I were wandering around on a rainy night up there. We saw 2 boys sitting on the steps and asked them what they were doing. They wouldn't answer us and just stared at us. They looked grey and it was really weird. We waved our hands in front of their faces but they just sat there..... at this point we ran! They were dressed in dark clothes and had wide collars. I still get the chills thinking of it. I am convinced we saw ghosts that night.
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Post by brucie2000 on Nov 7, 2009 11:32:03 GMT -4
I know it is past the holiday, but down here in NC, people have never heard of corning or soaping windows. I thought that everyone threw corn at halloween. They did light the bags of poop and run on people's porch, but corning was never heard of. With that being said, they thought it was a cool idea. I guess throwning tobacco leaves and cotton balls would not have the same effect. As we look forward to Thanksgiving, I hope everyone has a great turkey day. This is my first year away from the weather up there and I am sure that the climate will take something away from the holiday...........A heavy coat and snow brush!!!! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!
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