Halloween Express Draws Attention
By Naiwrita Sinha, Gaea News NetworkSaturday, September 18, 2010
OWENTON, KENTUCKY (Gaea Times.com)- Halloween is fast approaching and it is time for some scary celebration. The seasonal shops which accompany Halloween have already opened up with lots of candies, tricks, costumes, mask and many other items to fulfill the demand and provide people with better stuff. The preparation for this one day festival held on October 31st starts as early as the month of September. One of the most popular seasonal shops that caters to the Halloween needs of the people is Halloween Express which has a wonderful variety of costumes along with any kinds of masks which a person is looking for and other Halloween items for decorating the house and the front porch.
The Halloween express had for the first time opened in 1990 in Owenton, Kentucky from where it grew and is estimated to now have around 300 stores. Halloween express is there on the social networking sites as well which only points out its popularity. The economic problems do not seem to have caused any damage to the popularity of Halloween as billions of dollars are estimated to be spent this year on Halloween.
Halloween is a very old festival which was celebrated by the ancients on the belief that on 31st October the day on which Halloween is celebrated the veil separating the physical world with the other side is its thinnest and spirits are highly active on this particular night. The celebrations were carried out in order to protect the crops from damage by the spirits. As time progressed Halloween became a very popular festival and the people now have lot of fun by organizing and attending Halloween parties and decorating their houses with Halloween items which are supplied by shops like Halloween express.