White Center Now: The blog about White Center

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Just take an umbrella along with your trick-or-treat bag, and you’ll be fine! White Center’s trick-or-treat-and-more block party is defying the wet weather.

Smiles and treats abounded during our visit. Even pets were in costume.

Creative decorations, too.

And a reminder that Halloween is followed immediately by Dia de los Muertos:

Trick or treating continues until 7.

Downtown White Center is where to be on Halloween afternoon/evening:

We’ve been showing reader photos of Halloween displays all month on partner site West Seattle Blog – and this one is in White Center:

Lacey sent the photos and info for tonight’s spotlight Halloween display!

I wanted to let you all know about my display The Last Resort Hotel. I am planning on having my yard open to walk through on Thursday Oct. 30 from 4-8 pm and on Friday Oct. 31 from 4-9 pm. White Center Trick or Treat goes from 4-7 pm, so that is a great time to come and visit! We are located on 18th Ave SW between Roxbury and SW 98th St. I will have a bin for people to drop off nonperishable items for White Center Food Bank as well as a link for people who would like to donate online. I would really love to make this an annual tradition. It is a lot of work to set this up and I want to share it with people and find a way to give back.

Every year I decorate the inside of my yard for my son’s birthday, and this year we have taken on a new theme The Last Resort Hotel. Inside the yard you will find The Last Gasp Gift Shop with zombie snacks and tombstones for sale. The Witch Way Cafe hosts a bubbling cauldron and a creepy doll party. You can visit Zombie Place on the way to the Morgue, but watch out for dangling body parts!

It is definitely more fun to visit at night with all of the lighting on, but during the day there is still lots to enjoy and may feel less scary for the little ones.

Halloween is less than three weeks away and the spooky season is on. Here’s a haunted happening today in White Center:

Handmade and Vintage Haunted Marketplace from 12-6 at Cher Baby Vintage, Tomb of Treasure, Puffy Pandy, and Tim’s Tavern

Marketplace 12-4 at Lumberyard with a Daytime Discotek to follow 5-8 pm

Punk bands playing at Tim’s Tavern

Live DJ and Artist Highlight at 2 Fingers Social

Go wander!

(Also posted on partner site West Seattle Blog)

The first big event of the night has 16th SW closed to traffic between Roxbury and SW 100th, as White Center’s “Halloweentown” welcomes trick-or-treaters, among others – actually “trunk or treaters,” with decorated low-rider cars on the west side of the north block:

Go admire the decorated trunks and grab some candy.

Even well before dark, the ghosts and goblins were out marauding.

Individual venues have activities too – travel through the scary-clown inflatable arch at Big Mario’s Pizza/Alpine Diner (WSB sponsors) and you’ll find pumpkins to paint:

More grownup fun is part of the party later in the evening too – Halloweentown is in the spirit until 2 am.

The White Center Eagles just sent word of their second annual Trunk or Treat, happening today (Saturday, October 26), at 10452 15th Ave SW: “It is open to the public for all the fun, rain or shine. 1-3 in the parking lot, food will be inside.”