Topic: Personal Stories
GANGS OF HARVEY: THE HALLOWEENS
In Harvey Halloween had always been a fun time growing up. It was like Candy Christmas for my friends and I. By the time I hit high school the time for trick-or-treating had passed, but we still wanted to have fun. And so it began.
October 1981, I was a sophomore at Thornton Township High School. Halloween season came as it always did, and my friends and I wanted to get off of the block. We decided to go to The Harvey Park District's annu...al Haunted House at Harmon Park. We were a block away when a man ran out of his house at us with a machete. None of us were armed so we backed away. The group took a detour and made a quick exit. We never ended up making it back to the haunted house.
October 1982, my friends and I were determined to make it to the haunted house this year. We decided to roll deep (take extra people) in case anything happened. As I remember it was me, Mark Fourte, Aubrey Fourte, Rufus Chambers, Anthony Jones, Frank Johnson, Tim Collins and more. Tracy Dyson might have been there too. We were walking and joking and having a good time. We made it a block away from the haunted house --AGAIN! This time we were right in front of Thornton Township High School, when a car full of boys drove by. One of the boys yelled something out at us, and Frank replied with "Yo Mama!" Right then it looked like a scene from the movie "The Warriors." All of these hands came out of the car windows holding bats and chains. The car turned up on Thornton's lawn, pulled a U turn, and came right at us! We took off running! We made it into the parking lot on 151st when the car came speeding up behind us. We took off across the field! Mark and Anthony were gone! They were already ahead of the group by a block! The rest of us were still in the field when Frank yelled "I can't run no more! My stomach is about to fall out!" We stopped running and started heading back towards the car in the lot. The boys in the car piled out with their weapons, and we were about to bump heads, when one of them recognized Rufus. The tension broke, everybody laughed, and we went home. Once again we failed to make it to the haunted house.
October 1983 was Senior year in high school. We'd gotten used to the excitement from the past two Halloweens, so we decided to skip the haunted house all together. We were going to go out to find some more adventure! The group got together and we headed out to walk around Harvey. We were having fun as usual, walking past Ashland Park this time. All of a sudden a person in a window started shooting at us! Having found our excitement we took off running. No one got hit, and we ended the night in one collective piece. And so it was...
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Updated: Tuesday, 6 September 2016 6:29 PM CDT
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