The best store ever for Halloween stuff, odd craft supplies and toys! I spent most of my time there shopping with my mother at the old location, in the plaza between Route 11 and South Bay Road. It was still cool when they moved over to the castle too. The Count was a great Halloween gimmick, it was a coffin standing on end toward the front of the store. There was usually a mannequin with a vampire mask in the coffin, but every once in awhile there would be a live person in there to scare the crap out of little kids!
Later on as teenagers a friend of mine bought a "fart box" there. It was a rubber device that you held in the palm of your hand and would make a lovely noise whenever you squeezed it. I swear, he took this thing wherever he went for the next 6 months! Every public place we would go he would have this in his pocket, offending anyone who would walk by! We were easily amused I guess. But, actually, if you would do this now and film it, you'd have a successful reality show!
Here's a picture of a shirt that one of my friend's got from Switz's:
"HAM??!! What kind of a name is Ham? You mean like the meat?" - Jimmie "Dyn-O-Mite" Walker
"Ham? That's gotta be short for something. No one names their kid Ham." - Mike "Baron Daemon" Price
Later on as teenagers a friend of mine bought a "fart box" there. It was a rubber device that you held in the palm of your hand and would make a lovely noise whenever you squeezed it. I swear, he took this thing wherever he went for the next 6 months! Every public place we would go he would have this in his pocket, offending anyone who would walk by! We were easily amused I guess. But, actually, if you would do this now and film it, you'd have a successful reality show!
Here's a picture of a shirt that one of my friend's got from Switz's:
"HAM??!! What kind of a name is Ham? You mean like the meat?" - Jimmie "Dyn-O-Mite" Walker
"Ham? That's gotta be short for something. No one names their kid Ham." - Mike "Baron Daemon" Price
I believe it's on a tape with a bunch of Christmas Shows/Movies on it. I can vaguely remember how the commercial went but I believe it had an animated Rudolf, The red nosed Reindeer in it. I will try my best to locate it.