We had a big neighborhood growing up, 400+ houses in a one mile loop with 4 crossing streets through it. More than half participated in Halloween.
It used to take about 2 hours to canvas the entire neighborhood so we were generally out from 6-9 pm. Some of the neighbors did haunted houses that took a while to get through.
If Halloween fell on a weekend, we would stay out until 10 pm or so.
On those nights, we usually had two costumes so we could go back and hit the best houses twice. My favorite was to wear a ghost costume (bed sheet with eye holes) over a second costume.
Go around once, take off the sheet and go around again to the choice houses. We used to fill our pillowcase sacks so full we could barely carry them.
Fun times!
