The Dreaded Madurski Brothers

Halloween would not be complete without the tale of the dreaded Madurski Bro.. They lived on the next block from our house in New Jersey. In the early 50's there were lots and lots of developments going up all over the place, and we lived in one. It was filled with young couples that had two or three children each. So our block had about 50 kids on it, we had quite a group to interact with. And that was the same on every block in our development. So we would develop rivalries between each street. We would challenge each block in baseball, or in the winter football. We lived on Semel Avenue and the dreaded Madurski brothers lived on Bradford Avenue.
So we Semel people thought that the the Bradford Avenue people, including the dreaded Madurski brothers, were a bad bunch.


Getting back to Halloween. We would start to trick or treat just after school. As far as I can remember we started in the dark, probably about 4:30, and we would stay out till about 7:30 or 8:00. This was the norm. But not for the dreaded Madurski brothers. Everyone in the our house would be gearing down for bed time about 9 o'clock, when all of a sudden you would hear a knock on the door. My father would say "who the heck is that?" and open the door, with my brother and I in back of him, curious to see who would be out this late. Guess who. Yes, that's right the DREADED MADURSKI BROTHERS with no costumes and no bag for the candy, just their held out hands. So my father wanting just to get rid of them,would tell us to get some candy from our stash. My brother and I would go pick out the candy that we liked the least for me it was anything with coconut, Mounds or Almond Joys. We would hand the dreaded Madurski brothers the candy and they would leave, without saying a word of thanks. We watched them slither off in to the night from our window wondering what would be next for the dreaded Madurski brothers. Well we found out the next morning.
Every carved pumpkin on the block that had been resting on the stoops of all most every home, was now in the splattered in the middle of the street. A little calling card from, you guess it again THE DREADED MADURSKI BROTHERS..