MANDELL: Napkins and cups and plates. SELYUKH: But that first year, he realized costumes were the gold mine. MANDELL: We actually enlarged our original store to really accommodate Halloween the right ...

He sold cups, napkins and other supplies for birthday and holiday get-togethers. But it was the costumes that became the goldmine. "I never expected Halloween to be anything like it," Mandell says.

Rawhide, a beloved dive at the corner of Burgundy and St. Ann, is part of what many in the LGBTQ+ community jokingly call the ...

He sold cups, napkins and other supplies for birthday and holiday get-togethers. But it was the costumes that became the goldmine. "I never expected Halloween to be anything like it," Mandell says.

Halloween was always huge. SELYUKH: Steve Mandell opened the first Party City in New Jersey in 1986 - at first just napkins and cups and other supplies for get-togethers, but costumes became the ...

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