Helen, Lois and the rest of the Hudson County: We also got apples and oranges and home made cookies. My older sister dressed in my father's clothes and at one house the man came out and gave my sister a nickel for being such a "nice big boy". We laughed at that one. Also my brothers went out the night before and removed gates and had ashes in stockings and would hit people and get their clothes all white. There were never any arrests, it was good clean fun. Ann, North Bergen, now Farmingdale, NJ In a message dated 10/24/2006 8:21:29 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I remember it well, Lois. We lived in North Bergen when I was about five and six years old in the early thirties. I had three older brothers, and they dressed me in my father's clothes, jacket and hat and blacked my face with a burned cork. then they took me around and we would say "Anything for Thanksgiving?". We moved to Jersey City in the mid thirties and we still went out for Thanksgiving. Of course no one ever went out to BUY outfits. who had the money for that ? But we had fun, and we received pennies from some people and then we would go to the "Square" (Journal Square) to either the State, Stanley or the Loews Theaters to see the latest movies. I don't think that it was the same day. We sat through the Feature Movie, the B Movie, the Newsreel and the Coming Attractions, and a Comedy TWICE, too. We weren't chased out either, of course we were behaved. Fond memories, thanks for bringing it up. I'm retired now in Florida. Helen G.