Halloween: Belvedere Street 2026

Okay. I wanted  to share this short video of what a typical Halloween is like on Belvedere Street here in San Francisco.

You will see  thousands of costumed kids yelling “Trick or Treat” with their parents making their way door to door, some with pillowcases to use as bags to store  their sweet treats for later. The celebration covers at least four city blocks of the hill, so to do both sides of the street you have to trudge both up and down the hill to collect your sweet treasures.  It’s a workout.

The gathering usually lasts five to six hours – this one went well past 10PM – during which Marcia, Sabin, and myself  – under Artemis’s Buoyant Balloon decorations – “sold” more than 65 pounds of candy, running out of stock just before 7PM with Belvedere Street still teeming with celebrants.

A Happy Halloween indeed!  👻☠️🎃

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