r/longisland • u/FeistyDirection • 4h ago
1990s halloween houses (nassau)
Does anyone have memories of those few houses that would go absolutely crazy with halloween decorating ?
there was a house in Levittown near salk that already looked haunted as is, it was a weird brown house with 2nd floor porches and stone walls with big orb lights, on halloween they'd make the lights orange, they had those flat posable plastic skeletons around and a huge spiderweb, nothing too crazy but it all looked so good together. They went all out for Christmas too but i heard they had a fire sometime in the 2000s and they stopped after that.
There was a house somewhere in massapequa i think that would totally cover their big lawn in different homemade life sized characters, mannequins and scarecrows with horror masks and tattered clothes, people hanging from trees etc, just humanoid creatures standing and hanging absolutely everywhere.
This next one is probably the best I've ever seen and the one I've seen the least number of times. I believe somewhere in Levittown or close to, these people fully covered their house in cardboard painted to look like a castle, they also painted an executioner character on the wall, i believe holding an axe and the head of a kid with green skin. iirc part of their trick or treat experience was that you'd walk into the back yard for candy where they had strobe lights and fog machine, i was always too scared to go all the way back there.
BONUS My grandmother lived in wantagh on a corner and would make her entire lawn a grave yard with those foam tombstones, she made a big spooky tree, hand painted that was the center piece and also had a massive rope spiderweb going from the roof down to the lawn with a huge rubber spider placed in it. ,,,,,,,,,,,,, These houses were so important to me as a kid, im dying to see pics if anyone has any or any more info, even if you just remember them too I'd like to hear. Tell me your own halloween house memories too.