- Laurene Powell Jobs, Marissa Mayer, and Sheldon Adelson’s stepdaughter all hosted extravagant Halloween parties for the public in Palo Alto on October 31, photos and videos of the events shared on social media show.
- The elaborate displays included a jack-o’-lantern tower, zombies, a floating witch, professional lighting displays, and a lot of free candy, The Washington Post’s Nitasha Tiku reported.
- Jobs’ Halloween show has attracted as many as 3,000 people in years past, a spokesperson for the Palo Alto police told The Washington Post.
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Palo Alto’s billionaire residents really like Halloween.
Laurene Powell Jobs, Marissa Mayer, and Sheldon Adelson’s stepdaughter all hosted extravagant Halloween parties for the public on October 31, photos and videos of the events shared on social media show.
The Halloween displays are so extravagant that they each require multiple permits, The Washington Post’s Nitasha Tiku reported. Six blocks of Jobs’ street were even closed to through traffic, according to The Post.
Keep reading to see what it’s like to trick or treat in Palo Alto.
Palo Alto is a city in California's San Francisco Bay Area. It's part of Silicon Valley and home to the headquarters of Tesla, HP, Skype, and other tech companies.
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Laurene Powell Jobs owns a 5,768-square-foot house in Palo Alto, where she hosts a show for the public each Halloween.
Source: Business Insider, The Washington Post
This year, the event was called "Fog Town."
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The set for Jobs' Halloween show included a tower of jack-o'-lanterns ...
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Source: The Washington Post
... a lighthouse, lunch counter, metalworking shop, and professional lighting and special effects.
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Source: The Washington Post
Actors were hired to be zombies.
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Source: The Washington Post
Visitors could walk through the various sets ...
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Source: The Washington Post
... and bags of candy were handed out at the exit.
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Source: Instagram
The show has attracted as many as 3,000 people in years past, a spokesperson for the Palo Alto police told the Washington Post.
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Source: The Washington Post
The stepdaughter of billionaire Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson, Yasmin Lukatz, threw a carnival in a lot across the street from Jobs' house ...
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Source: The Washington Post
... that featured a floating witch.
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Source: Instagram
Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer also hosted a Halloween extravaganza in Palo Alto's Professorville district.
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Source: The Washington Post
At Mayer's house, trick or treaters received stuffed animals in addition to candy.
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Source: The Washington Post
Google cofounder Larry Page is also known for his extravagant Halloween displays, but "disappointed" visitors with a simple table with Christmas lights, where costumed women gave out fun-sized candy.
Source: The Washington Post