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The Story of Spirit Halloween Stores #shorts
Spirit Halloween, one of spooky season’s favorite internet memes, is now 40 years old - and its origins are in the Bay Area.
The chain, which has over 1,500 pop-ups nationwide and has been known for quickly snagging up empty storefronts, is the brainchild of Joe Marver. In 1983, he opened a Halloween store at the Castro Valley Mall. At the time, he did business in party goods and women’s apparel, and when a dancewear store selling costumes at the mall closed, he saw an opportunity.
Why Halloween, in particular? According to the National Retail Federation, U.S. Halloween spending is projected to reach a record $12.2 billion in 2023, exceeding pre-pandemic levels. The trade association predicts the holiday will surpass the previous record, $10.6 billion, in 2022. (According to career guidance site Zippia, Spirit Halloween’s annual revenue is approximately $1.1 billion.)
Whether Marver has a special affinity for Halloween, a 2016 Bloomberg article described it as not a “strong love.” KQED asked him again about this impression.
“I had to be somewhat into it to start it,” he said.
Marver’s gamble worked out, and the concept took off.
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The Fight for Marriage Equality: Kris Perry and Sandy Stier
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15 years after a majority of Californians voted in favor of Proposition 8, banning same-sex marriage across the state, KQED sat down with the two couples who sued to overturn this law. Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, a couple from the Bay Area, were two of the defendants who fought for the right to marry each other and ended up making LGBTQ history. The fight against Prop. 8 was a landmark case tha...
The Fight for Marriage Equality: Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo
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15 years after a majority of Californians voted in favor of Proposition 8, banning same-sex marriage across the state, KQED sat down with the two couples who sued to overturn this law. Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo were two of the defendants who fought for the right to marry each other and ended up making LGBTQ history. The fight against Prop. 8 was a landmark case that ultimately helped lead t...
After 246 Years of Slavery, What Could Reparations Look Like Today? | KQED News
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After 246 Years of Slavery, What Could Reparations Look Like Today? | KQED News
How Black Californians Had Their Land Stolen | KQED News
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How Black Californians Had Their Land Stolen | KQED News
KQED Newsroom Finale: Saying Goodbye
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KQED Newsroom Finale: Saying Goodbye
KQED Newsroom Finale: The Origins
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KQED Newsroom Finale: The Origins
Tony Thurmond | Autonomous Vehicles | Generative AI
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Tony Thurmond | Autonomous Vehicles | Generative AI
How did the Japanese community in the United States set a precedent for reparations? | KQED News
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How did the Japanese community in the United States set a precedent for reparations? | KQED News
The Future of AI With Rep. Ted Lieu | SF Ballet's Tamara Rojo
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The Future of AI With Rep. Ted Lieu | SF Ballet's Tamara Rojo
Preparing for California's 'Big Melt' | AIDS/LifeCycle | KQED Newsroom
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Preparing for California's 'Big Melt' | AIDS/LifeCycle | KQED Newsroom
Meet the Members of California’s Historic Reparations Task Force | KQED News
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Meet the Members of California’s Historic Reparations Task Force | KQED News
Earth Day Special: Bay Oil Pollution | CA-Mexico 2030 Summit
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Earth Day Special: Bay Oil Pollution | CA-Mexico 2030 Summit
CA News & Politics | Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis
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CA News & Politics | Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao | Saru Jayaraman and One Fair Wage
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Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao | Saru Jayaraman and One Fair Wage
Silicon Valley Bank Bailout | Tech News of the Week
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Silicon Valley Bank Bailout | Tech News of the Week
Post-Roe | CalEPA Secretary Yana Garcia| KQED Newsroom
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Post-Roe | CalEPA Secretary Yana Garcia| KQED Newsroom
Rep. Barbara Lee calls for cutting $100 billion from the federal defense budget.
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Rep. Barbara Lee calls for cutting $100 billion from the federal defense budget.
U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee | Lateefah Simon
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U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee | Lateefah Simon
AMAZING Dance + California Love with @linesballet's famous choreographer Alonzo King.
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AMAZING Dance California Love with @linesballet's famous choreographer Alonzo King.
Ukraine War | Alonzo King
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Ukraine War | Alonzo King
The Reasons For Reparations | KQED News
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The Reasons For Reparations | KQED News
This Week in CA Politics | Eric Abrams on DEI
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This Week in CA Politics | Eric Abrams on DEI
"Tales of the Town" | CA Housing Deadline | Castro District
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"Tales of the Town" | CA Housing Deadline | Castro District
SFMTA's Jeffrey Tumlin | CA Gun Violence
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SFMTA's Jeffrey Tumlin | CA Gun Violence
CA Storm Impact | SF General Hospital Celebrates 150 Years
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CA Storm Impact | SF General Hospital Celebrates 150 Years
Atmospheric River | CA Tech News | KQED Newsroom
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Atmospheric River | CA Tech News | KQED Newsroom
Former Mayor Sam Liccardo | Gridlock in D.C.
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Former Mayor Sam Liccardo | Gridlock in D.C.
Mayor Libby Schaaf | Fusion Ignition
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Mayor Libby Schaaf | Fusion Ignition
Mayor London Breed | Representative Jackie Speier
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Mayor London Breed | Representative Jackie Speier

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @josephnjogu9341
    @josephnjogu9341 6 годин тому

    Every Kenyan who is not the daughter or son of a well to do family has to go through vicious chronic stress in the school system. Haranguing, caning and brutal dehumanization is the order. If you read this, please make it to Kenya and obtain a slot on a main Televised national media appearance. It is criminal, banned by constitutional edicts but it is impossible for teachers who themselves are victims to see the light of wisdom. Help to end trauma.

  • @johng.7560
    @johng.7560 3 дні тому

    How about a 1 way ticket back to Africa with our apologies?

  • @williefrankcollection9437
    @williefrankcollection9437 3 дні тому

    The democrats is Playing. They want even open the door to allow us to get money to buy land. The democrats not saying that to their immigrants. So we need money. If black people still doing drugs in 2024 that's the government problem. The Nation of Islam has done wonders for black people to take them off drugs maybe the government need to send black people to the nation of Islam. Let them help them so they can get their cash.

  • @raymak8407
    @raymak8407 4 дні тому

    Racist.

  • @yolandajohnson8685
    @yolandajohnson8685 4 дні тому

    If they give blacks our reps. I will gladly take an unlimited food card, they can keep the money.

  • @chrislynch8914
    @chrislynch8914 5 днів тому

    The neighborhood should be overlooked! It's a hot mess.

  • @szook3954
    @szook3954 6 днів тому

    I lived for a time, 1967, on Pine Hill Rd, kinda the outskirts of Milk Valley then. Couple friends of mine, and myself, took a hike up some trails one day, from where we lived and came across that car, wrecked at that spot. We didn't know what or why it was there just thought it was pretty cool that we made it this far up n came across a wrecked car. I was 14 then, n have told the tale many times over, of following unknown dirt trails, up a steep hillside, to see the view and discover a old wrecked car.

  • @lansmgroup6540
    @lansmgroup6540 6 днів тому

    😂😂😂 free money for people who were never slaves 😅😅😅😅

  • @Simple-xo1jj
    @Simple-xo1jj 7 днів тому

    Whaaaaaaah muh black pepo probwems Whaaaaaaah muh slaveries Whaaaaaaah!

  • @fosta4243
    @fosta4243 7 днів тому

    Feel free to look up this vid that was the same year…”Exclusive video: the first hunt by a great white shark ever recorded in San Francisco Bay” . I think not. Ma’am your braver than me 😂

  • @joshhasselgren3889
    @joshhasselgren3889 7 днів тому

    I visited fisherman’s wharf and came here EVERY DAY. This place is I’m the reason I came to San Fran

  • @ShamshadBaig-cu5tz
    @ShamshadBaig-cu5tz 7 днів тому

    I am an Artist Sir. Please support me to sell my paintings thank you

  • @ElectricChaplain
    @ElectricChaplain 8 днів тому

    Funny how all the speculation seems to leave out the native Americans that were right there.

  • @trainspotting_and_tech2023
    @trainspotting_and_tech2023 10 днів тому

    Thanks Silicon Valley for another dismantled-in-the-future trolleybus network... 🙄😒😠

  • @MacDeezy10
    @MacDeezy10 12 днів тому

    "market rate" and " mixed income" in SF are very far away from each other. Rich get richer. Poor get poorer.

  • @absolutecrypto95
    @absolutecrypto95 14 днів тому

    Another scumbag

  • @HarkeG
    @HarkeG 14 днів тому

    Of course they all made it, look at distance, probably even trained for it before in cells

  • @Run1289
    @Run1289 16 днів тому

    Move to another state, California is drying up and becoming a desert.

  • @jamesgibson3242
    @jamesgibson3242 17 днів тому

    A buffet for sharks.

  • @ossoduro7794
    @ossoduro7794 18 днів тому

    They'll get NOTHING and eventually stop sniveling, lest they remain TEARFUL.

  • @williammccauley1052
    @williammccauley1052 18 днів тому

    This didn’t age so well…

  • @TristenChenLife
    @TristenChenLife 18 днів тому

    Whoever said no to this whole thing should be switched out and fired. BART should be in Marin. They should have BART in Marin, San Mateo, South San Jose, and more of Santa Clara County. I think it’d be cool if BART had a Gilroy extension from, say, Milpitas to Gilroy. Or something. Maybe we’ll make the Milpitas to Gilroy portion an eBART train. You know those trains that they have in Contra Costa county on the Antioch line, extending from Pittsburgh Baypoint East to Antioch, and eventually potentially to Brentwood, Tracy, and more. maybe we’ll just have to switch out the E with an S. And I think it would be cool if the BART went through South San Jose. Then I can take BART to school. Also Cupertino, Mountain View, Los Altos, potentially Los Altos Hills? Hopefully they make it by 2100.

  • @daiksondaidad5693
    @daiksondaidad5693 19 днів тому

    So thats where the money is going to the non profit so the homeless issue will never resolve..very sad.

  • @johndasilva2686
    @johndasilva2686 21 день тому

    Freehold paid for houses for all African Americans born in the USA since last year. and onwards for 400 years ( slavery days ) would be a good gesture.

  • @janetpattison8474
    @janetpattison8474 23 дні тому

    Imagine waking up to your own great artworks.

  • @ringogringo814
    @ringogringo814 27 днів тому

    Somebody's a little confused on their American history. It would make more sense to class action lawsuit the Democratic Party, since they were the ones that owned the slaves. They're still trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the descendants of the democratic slaves today.

  • @mommabear8357
    @mommabear8357 28 днів тому

    This is still going on the U.S. owes that.

    • @ossoduro7794
      @ossoduro7794 18 днів тому

      Oh hail gnaw!!! Y'all will get NOTHING!

  • @user-mk9kj8yf6r
    @user-mk9kj8yf6r 29 днів тому

    :37 Somehow Czionish gouls didnt have a ongoing battle for reparartions. Hmmm I wonder jooz holding FREEDMENS CASH REPARATIONS!

  • @electrolytics
    @electrolytics Місяць тому

    Uh the US only had slavery for about 70 years. Before that it was England, Spain and France. So ask France, England and Spain for the reparations.

  • @realitytube6290
    @realitytube6290 Місяць тому

    They dont want the descendants of Africans in America to own any land or anything even to be uplifted in the businesses.

  • @KLM982
    @KLM982 Місяць тому

    Australia separates its own citizens from their families, it is worse than the US.

  • @philissogers4272
    @philissogers4272 Місяць тому

    Give the reparations and let ppl do as they please with CASH. Anything other than that is BS. Education, healthcare and other services we can pay for our own. Every single person is different.

    • @ossoduro7794
      @ossoduro7794 18 днів тому

      How about NOTHING with a smile‽

  • @DwightRndYoLip-iw1fw
    @DwightRndYoLip-iw1fw Місяць тому

    Sponsored by Heinrich Ford, Getty and William Randolph Hearst. There they go again blame the robber barrons. Real Royals are Rockefellers and Rothschilds.

  • @explorer909
    @explorer909 Місяць тому

    I still think it's tragic that reparations were never paid to the descendants. America has paid every other group it wronged reparations. Today, America pays Israel $3.5 billion dollars annually, co-signed by the first black president (Barack Obama) in World War 2 reparations it doesn't even owe. Obama does not deserve a library. MY IDEA OF REPARATIONS? Non-immigrant blacks should not have to pay state or federal income taxes for the next 500 years. Until this becomes law, the descendants who have not found their own way will continue to proudly wreak havoc on American Society. It is "The Hate That Hate Made".

  • @eugeniofernandez8101
    @eugeniofernandez8101 Місяць тому

    What exactly did they build?

    • @Her_Creative
      @Her_Creative Місяць тому

      Massive Generational Economical capital

    • @ossoduro7794
      @ossoduro7794 18 днів тому

      @@Her_Creative Thanks so much, it is really nice.

  • @eugeniofernandez8101
    @eugeniofernandez8101 Місяць тому

    How about giving reparations to the Native Americans, Mexicans and to the Natives from the Caribbean Islands, who were displaced by Africans. Their race can still be found in northern South America.

  • @anthonyz7023
    @anthonyz7023 Місяць тому

    Wow Oxford Elementary! That’s awesome

  • @anthonyz7023
    @anthonyz7023 Місяць тому

    Castro Valley Mall in 1983?

  • @iand654456
    @iand654456 Місяць тому

    If you guys want money go get it from the black guys who sold you

  • @tamsinthai
    @tamsinthai Місяць тому

    'Tis a pity all of these art collectors could fund public museums so everyone gets to see them instead of keeping them for themselves to enjoy only. Shocked at the Pollock being hung over the kid's bed, who didn't even know what it was back then. So what was the point? Greed.

  • @Paolo-qe7lc
    @Paolo-qe7lc Місяць тому

    4:13 That brave George of the Jungle stuntman rope swinging off the Bay Bridge terrified me as a kid watching George of the Jungle... It still is scary!

  • @ludovicleprinceroyal8721
    @ludovicleprinceroyal8721 Місяць тому

    On behalf of white, Indo-Europeans: I don't care it's not my problem....end of discussion.

  • @viethuynh6808
    @viethuynh6808 Місяць тому

    Move to Merced, Turlock or Modesto. Rent is a lot cheaper.

  • @callmebyyourunusannus9558
    @callmebyyourunusannus9558 Місяць тому

    0:17 boomtown definition 0:30 Gold rush 1848 0:43 1880 0:58 earth shake 1:36 Oakland boom 1:42 Bay area 1:47 war 2 2:12 Suburban expansion 2:23 alt culture expansion 2:38 1980 boom /electrics 3:05 .com boom/bust/housing bubble (3rd gold rush)

  • @leonardbarajas1763
    @leonardbarajas1763 Місяць тому

    Nancy is doing this for grants donations she is a control freak likes controlling people.

  • @BarryDMoss
    @BarryDMoss Місяць тому

    Virtual vertigo.

  • @annamirandacuamanipelorojo6029
    @annamirandacuamanipelorojo6029 Місяць тому

    Dios que lo perdone

  • @user-dt7fq4md9m
    @user-dt7fq4md9m Місяць тому

    um, that's fuckin cool

  • @hamed2928
    @hamed2928 Місяць тому

    When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

  • @tonyseverance7321
    @tonyseverance7321 Місяць тому

    John Jeide!! A San Francisco Bay Area legend. I worked at a restaurant with this bartender many years ago...Great guy!! FYI, they have to make them this fast because of how many they sell.