Good walkable neighborhood for Trick or Treat?

[peestandingup]

Well, that certainly seems to be a bit much. And no offense, but if you don't like it, couldn't you just turn off all your house lights & take a drive for a couple hours? Surely they wouldn't egg someone's house for being on "vacation". I doubt anyone would even knock if all the lights were off anyway.

BTW, we didn't end up going here but did drive past it around 7. It was pretty crazy.

[Bill Hoff]

So how many trick or treaters did people get?

The highest tally in my neighborhood was at 5th & Market, 380 people. They counted.

[Jumpinjack]

We had a neighborhood outdoor movie, a treat table set-up with our combined candies, a few extra chairs on the lawn. Treats ran out about 8:30 but no one was rude. In fact some of the kids just took a seat on the lawn and watched the movie to the end. We must have had about 50-70 kids almost all in costumes and mostly arriving by family car. The youngest ones came about 6:00 with mom or dad. A few parents wanted to watch the movie too but were dragged off by eager kids.

[peestandingup]

Well, its that time of the year again. What about the beaches area? How's places like around the Atlantic Beach strip for trick or treat?

[Tacachale]

It's been many moons, but Atlantic Beach was always good, especially up by Selva Marina, and Neptune Beach also got pretty good east of 3rd street. I will say that when I was young (talking 80s and 90s), the Beach was dead on Halloween. We used to ride over to Arlington and Avondale for Trick or Treating. I guess that makes us part of the unwashed "hordes" from "disadvantaged neighborhoods" who caused some of the above posters to drop their monocles in their champagne flutes at the thought of buying a second bag of Twix.

[peestandingup]

It's been many moons, but Atlantic Beach was always good, especially up by Selva Marina, and Neptune Beach also got pretty good east of 3rd street. I will say that when I was young (talking 80s and 90s), the Beach was dead on Halloween. We used to ride over to Arlington and Avondale for Trick or Treating. I guess that makes us part of the unwashed "hordes" from "disadvantaged neighborhoods" who caused some of the above posters to drop their monocles in their champagne flutes at the thought of buying a second bag of Twix.

My WORD! Lol. Im assuming you mean Selva Marina Dr where all the moss trees are? I checked it out on Google Maps & there doesn't appear to be a sidewalk?

Yeah, I figured Atlantic Beach was gonna be pretty good. We're talking about "old Atlantic" right above Atlantic Blvd?

[ben says]

Maybe I'm biased - I grew up there - but the area between San Marco Square and Miramar is great Halloween walking.

Think: Granada, Alhambra, etc...near Duck Pond (I know that's not really the name..but it should be!)

[Todd_Parker]

When I was a youngster trick-or-treating in the Midwest back in the late 70s and 80s, the custom was that you had to tell a joke before you got any candy. The first time I handed out candy as a homeowner here in Jax a few years ago, I started off by asking the kids/adults at the door if they had any jokes to tell. After a night of confused looks and silence following my request, I gave up on trying. I guess that tradition never picked up down here or was just a product of a by-gone era.

[Tacachale]

It's been many moons, but Atlantic Beach was always good, especially up by Selva Marina, and Neptune Beach also got pretty good east of 3rd street. I will say that when I was young (talking 80s and 90s), the Beach was dead on Halloween. We used to ride over to Arlington and Avondale for Trick or Treating. I guess that makes us part of the unwashed "hordes" from "disadvantaged neighborhoods" who caused some of the above posters to drop their monocles in their champagne flutes at the thought of buying a second bag of Twix.

My WORD! Lol. Im assuming you mean Selva Marina Dr where all the moss trees are? I checked it out on Google Maps & there doesn't appear to be a sidewalk?

Yeah, I figured Atlantic Beach was gonna be pretty good. We're talking about "old Atlantic" right above Atlantic Blvd?

I don't remember which streets, but it was somewhere up by Selva Marina. The side streets are usually where the magic happens. It should be pretty easy to tell which streets to hit judging by the decorations - some folks really go all out.

Maybe I'm biased - I grew up there - but the area between San Marco Square and Miramar is great Halloween walking.

Think: Granada, Alhambra, etc...near Duck Pond (I know that's not really the name..but it should be!)

We used to live on Felch Ave., on the other side of Hendricks, and even there it was so swamped on Halloween that we ran out of candy our first year there. We had to start giving away things we had in our kitchen; oatmeal packets and tea bags were big hits. Sadly, the area north of the square (where we live now) was pretty dead last year, I guess everyone knows to migrate south.

[carpnter]

We stopped doing trick or treat when I had high school kids show up at 9:00pm on a weeknight knocking on my door and even though I gave out good candy, I still ended up with a broken window in my garage.  At that point I decided that was enough and we haven't done it for 10 years.  Now the front of the house is dark and the porch light stays off.

[Ernest Street]

Same thing here on Ernest St..stopped 17 years ago due to sieges and crowd commotion..actually made the mistake once to go out for beer on a bike after 9pm...Dellwood street almost had an altercation with candy thrown from one group to another..not tossed.....thrown hard to hurt!....

[Bill Hoff]

I didn't count, but definitely had over 300 again near 4th & Laura in SPR.