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Halloween in the Castro was an annual Halloween celebration held in The Castro district of San Francisco, first held in the 1940s as a neighborhood costume contest. By the late 1970s, it had shifted from a children's event to a gay pride celebration that continued to grow into a massive annual street party in the 2000s.
A December 2014 cover story in the Village Voice recounted how SantaCon had evolved from "joyful performance art" that originated in San Francisco to a "reviled bar crawl" of drunken brawling, vandalism, public urination and disorder in New York City and elsewhere, resulting in fierce community resistance and disavowals from the originators of ...
The SantaCon pub crawl originated in San Francisco in 1994 and has since spread to 300 cities in 44 countries, including New York City. London , Vancouver , Belfast and Moscow . [ 29 ] [ 30 ] The New York SantaCon is the largest, with an estimated 30,000 people participating in 2012.
The San Francisco Bay Area attraction has been around for 29 years. This year, some places — like Pirates of Emerson Haunted Theme Park — are opting for drive-thru haunted houses.
Crowd at a 2006 Exotic Erotic Ball stage. The Exotic Erotic Ball (often referred to as The Ball or Perry Mann's Exotic Erotic Ball [1]) was held annually from 1979 to 2009 on a weekend, usually before Halloween night, in the San Francisco Bay Area, California and was a public, adult-themed event.
The annual downtown Springfield Halloween Pub Crawl kicks off at 9 p.m. Saturday. Wristbands are available for $15.
Halloween isn't just for the littles. Adults can celebrate the spooky holiday, too. The annual Queen City Springfield Halloween Pub Crawl is Saturday, Oct. 26, starting at 9 p.m.
Historic bars and saloons in San Francisco were some of the earliest businesses during the formation of the city. Many of the first businesses to spring up in San Francisco during the California Gold Rush era (1848–1855) supported the influx of new men, including bars and saloons, [1] breweries, [2] horse racing tracks, [3] and others forms of entertainment.