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Your LA vid is just people standing around a single concert stage, so it gives an impression of a bigger crowd than a parade. And your five minute NYC vid is taken at the end of the parade, the full vid would be over an hour long if you wanted to capture the whole NYC procession. Just some stats - the full NYC parade is 50,000 participants and 50 live music bands with 2 million spectators, the biggest Halloween parade in the world.
It's a mile long, like the WeHo festival, and people can't just walk around on the noticeably narrower street during the parade (as far as I can tell). It doesn't look any more crowded than the vids I posted yet it's claiming a 4x greater turnout . Okaaay...
The best spirit of Halloween is New England (except for this year the snow really ruined it but the snow storm was a creepy one!)... New England is where it all started :-)
It's a mile long, like the WeHo festival, and people can't just walk around on the noticeably narrower street during the parade (as far as I can tell). It doesn't look any more crowded than the vids I posted yet it's claiming a 4x greater turnout . Okaaay...
People stand on the sidewalks during the parade. You pretty much can't move around because its jam-packed with people. You can't see the people because they are behind the guy with the camera. The 6th avenue is crowded at capacity during the parade for the full stretch, including the side streets, so it can't get anymore crowded than that. The street also is not *noticeably narrower*, you can google map it yourself, they are about similar in width.
Here is where the guy with the camera was standing, it goes this way for around 15 blocks on both sides of the street:
If you've never experienced Halloween in French Quarter, or Uptown, You don't know what you're missing!!! Perfect city for Halloween. I almost want to make an annual Halloween vacation there, like someone would visit for Mardi Gras, or NY for New Years, or etc...
^New Orleans dont have the true spirit of Halloween.
On the level of nature it should be the balance between summer and winter (libra)... which is funny to say because up here in the early October was like summer till the middle of the month was more like fall and then near the end of October is like winter. In New Orleans it would feel like summer.
So pretty much should look at the real meaning of Halloween (Samhain)
I believed that every living things has to be killed since the weather was keeping many plants alive and they have to go into cycle and reincarnated (which is why the snow came down)... ending brings a new beginning is one of the meaning of Halloween.
^New Orleans dont have the true spirit of Halloween.
On the level of nature it should be the balance between summer and winter (libra)... which is funny to say because up here in the early October was like summer till the middle of the month was more like fall and then near the end of October is like winter. In New Orleans it would feel like summer.
So pretty much should look at the real meaning of Halloween (Samhain)
I believed that every living things has to be killed since the weather was keeping many plants alive and they have to go into cycle and reincarnated (which is why the snow came down)... ending brings a new beginning is one of the meaning of Halloween.
I'm Pagan by the way.
I can't speak for others, but I wasn't suggesting that New Orleans possessed the "true spirit" of Halloween. When it comes to the general, Americanized culture of that day, Salem has the most to offer.
It was warm this year in southern Louisiana, but there have been cool Halloweens.
But you have to remember that it's celebrated all over the earth, and what's typical for a New England Halloween doesn't make it right for everyone.
One that I'm surprised isn't mentioned here is San Francisco. It's more of a gigantic spectacle that originated in the Castro District but it spreads out around the city, with parades and all kinds of outlandish costuming and . . behaviors. It could be more of a Halloween place for adults.
I have never been there for Halloween. But one time I met a guy there visiting from New Orleans, and he said that he had experienced Halloween in SF and that it was the closest madness to Mardi Gras that he had ever seen.
But I also know that in due time the crowds got out of hand and that the city government stopped encouraging the event. So I don't know if it's changed or what.
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. Okaaay...
