In the 1950s, Bobby Huber and Fritzi Huber were about six and seven years old when they learned about the existence of Halloween.
Their circus performer parents parked their trailer in the middle of empty farmland and pulled out all the stops to let their children experience trick-or-treating. The kids ran back and forth between the front and back doors of the trailer, begging for goodies, while the grownups quickly changed costumes and appeared as multiple characters.
“All night long our parents became other people,” Fritzi said in a recording for StoryCorps, a nonprofit oral history platform. “They would take parts of their costume that they wore in the act. [Mom] put on some crazy hat and came to the back door with her teeth blacked out.”
“And each one was [with] a different accent,” Bobby said.
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