Halloween door to door is pretty much dead, but I recall the mess it was for a time. What would happen is a truck or a car load of kids from someplace else would descend on the neighborhood, not young kids, but mostly high school aged and they would work the street like pros, crossing lawns, diving in front of other kids, basically running from one end of the street to the other hopping back in the truck and heading for another street.
Ruined it for the younger kids, and door to door trickled down to almost nothing, then the malls got into the free candy business and door to door was over in most places.
John Voight was in some movie where this was part of the plot, he loaded up a bus with poor kids and drove them to a nice neighborhood and turned them loose to collect.
Ruined it for the younger kids, and door to door trickled down to almost nothing, then the malls got into the free candy business and door to door was over in most places.
John Voight was in some movie where this was part of the plot, he loaded up a bus with poor kids and drove them to a nice neighborhood and turned them loose to collect.