Catalino grew up in Puerto Rico and never had the chance to celebrate Halloween as a child. Halloween I n homes all across Wisconsin, icicle lights dangle from the rooftops.
Candles burn a warm glow in the windows.
It's beginning to look a lot like . . . Once little more than a folksy celebration by school-aged children dressed in homemade costumes, Halloween has morphed over the years into one of the glitziest, most popular holidays on the calendar, second only to Christmas in the amount of money spent on decorations. Halloween has grown so popular in recent years that many retailers consider it to have replaced Thanksgiving as the launch of a holiday season that now stretches past New Year's to Super Bowl weekend. Like its yuletide cousin, Halloween is now steeped in trappings, warm wishes of the season and commercial opportunity. Coldwell Banker real estate agent Wendy Crawford sends her customers Halloween cards.