I'm so old I Remember when:

[LaurenRitz]

We used the spaghetti (in veg oil for extra ick) for guts and a steamed head of cauliflower for the brain. The grapes were a to peel but it absolutely makes all the difference. We also had a jello liver (decrease the water when making) and cleaned and dried chicken bones. I'm sure there were more body parts but it was more than half a century ago.
At ours, after going through the maze we all sat on folding chairs in a circle and there was a story as the 'body parts' were passed around.
I've seen others where the parts were inside boxes and you'd put your hand through a hole cut in the side as you went through the maze.
How was yours set up?

Well, it was about the same time period, apparently. I don't remember much. I remembered the "eyes," and part of it was in absolute darkness, with spider webs and ick slapping at your face. It was a trick-or-treat thing, and the candy was at the end.

It was a maze, if a simple one, sized to fit in their garage.

I did the haunted woods for a few years, and that was fun. Everybody had a script, but sometimes actors wouldn't show and they tucked me in those roles and I got to ad-lib.

 

[kikiruru]

My neighbor had one of those. Plastic bags hung up to make a maze in their garage, a brain made of spaghetti and a bowl full of grape eyeballs. It was fun.

I forgot about brains and eyeballs at the haunted house at the school’s fall festival

 

[kikiruru]

Well, it was about the same time period, apparently. I don't remember much. I remembered the "eyes," and part of it was in absolute darkness, with spider webs and ick slapping at your face. It was a trick-or-treat thing, and the candy was at the end.

It was a maze, if a simple one, sized to fit in their garage.

I did the haunted woods for a few years, and that was fun. Everybody had a script, but sometimes actors wouldn't show and they tucked me in those roles and I got to ad-lib.

I remember I worked the haunted hayride in fairhope Alabama

I helped give out the snacks

 

[kikiruru]

My youngest wasn't amused when I took her cell phone away years ago and plugged a rotary phone in in her bedroom...no instructions . We still have a landline to this day though I'm not sure why to be honest, since we all have cell phones too.

I have not had a landline for going on 18 years

 

[LaurenRitz]

I remember I worked the haunted hayride in fairhope Alabama

I helped give out the snacks

I think my favorite was when they had 3 or 4 no-shows along this 1/4 mile stretch of road so she gave me the run of wardrobe. I carried a wine bottle and staggered the wrong way along the road like I was drunk, then started circling the groups and laughing maniacally. I had them running.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

I remember checking Ma Bell's pay phones for dimes.

 

[kikiruru]

I remember checking Ma Bell's pay phones for dimes.

I remember checking payphones and drink and snake machines and pinball games and pool tables for change

I remember the hot coffee in a vending machine at the hospital

 

[kikiruru]

I remember when my second form of transportation was hitchhiking. My bike was my first form.

I remember I had a male friend who picked up hitchhikers back in the seventies and then one day he no longer did

He never did say why

 

[5Australorpasaures]

I remember checking payphones and drink and snake machines and pinball games and pool tables for change

I remember the hot coffee in a vending machine at the hospital

Pinball was 5 balls for a Nickle, we checked for maybe a free game left behind, pool was a quarter, not familiar with the snake machine. Coffee from those machines was top notch swill.

 

[sourland]

I remember I had a male friend who picked up hitchhikers back in the seventies and then one day he no longer did

He never did say why

I used to hitchhike, and then one day never did.
I, too, used to pick up hitchhikers and then one day never did.

Dissimilar situations, but enough to make me stop.