...where this fellow was waiting for them. The Coffin opens with a creaking noise and the pasty green Vampire with stake through his heart slowly rises up..... EEEEEKKKKK!
The lucky survivors scamper out through the "Cemetary" to receive their rewards...TREATS!!
[ How did I manage to cram all of this into my 10' x 20' carport, you may ask? With my usual scenic efficiency. The flats used for the walls of the corridors were only 3/4" thick, so it was posible to arrange them to make one long twisting corridor with the painted cardboard panels on springs to open and close the way. I was sitting on a small platform 4' high in the very center of it all so that I could see over the tops of the flats, using small mirrors for the spots I couldn't quite see, and there I flipped light switches and pulled cords which controlled all the figures and the action. A friend in costume would open the door and lock it again and then follow the "Visitors from behind to make sure they made it through alive!]
I used to start on the HOUSE in the summer, working all the logistics out well in advance. I began setting the insides up a few days before Halloween, with the outside parts going up on that day.
It was a lot of work and a LOT of Fun. I never advertised, but carloads of folks whould show up before we finally shut it all down before midnight. I kept this up for about 8 years until I couldn't physically do it anymore.
I still miss doing it every year.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!!!!
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