Haunted Mansion secrets
Growing up in Los Angeles, we used to go to Disneyland at least a few times a year, and, as such, its assorted attractions often ceased to thrill at a certain point. But the Haunted Mansion was one of the few things that, even twenty years later, still seems worth a drive to Orange County. Anything you ever wanted to know about the hologram-heavy extravaganza can be found at Haunted Mansion Secrets. Sure, it's cool to learn that Jean Cocteau was one of the Imagineers' influences, or that the ballroom ghosts are, in fact, not holograms, but animatronics. But I think the coolest thing about this site is the Walt Disney quote that starts it off. "We’re going to have ghosts from all over the world," old Walt said in 1965. "And we're making it very attractive for
them, hoping they're going to want to come and stay at Disneyland, so we guarantee
them creaking doors and creaking floors." He's not saying, "We're hiring the best engineers to make the world's most convincing haunted house" – he's saying, "We're gonna get us some ghosts." What mogul today would give out a quote like that, refusing to break the illusion?[via Boing Boing]
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11-22-2005 @ 2:23PM
Tom Straub said...
Hello
My name is Tom Straub.
Seeing that your website deals with hauntings, halloween, or abandoned places, I'm sending this letter to you because of my same interest in those topics.
I've recently made a website to display my haunted illustrations and photos. The site is called:
Tom Straub, Haunted Art
http://ca.geocities.com/tstraub6924@rogers.com/Homepage.html
My recent exhibit at the Downtown ARTS Project ...
http://www.artsproject.on.ca/exhibitions/tomstraub.shtml
went very well, and I was encouraged to take this path and show my work from a website for those who didn't make it to the show. Also, to say hello, and introduce myself to the WWWcommunity.
Comments, suggestions, and getting my site approved and linked to other sites is what I'm looking into.
Future exhibits will be posted on the site too.
If you grew up in the Canadian military, page 2 hooks up to several hundred pictures from some of the CFBs in Canada & Germany.
The third page links up to my webshots albums of abandoned places, haunted attractions, and other artwork.
The forth page is a links page that itself is rather interesting to see. Not the kind of stuff you usually see on a links page.
There is no nudity or porn on this site, and pictures in the webshots albums are free to download, I don't mind.
*** If you get this email more than once, I'm sorry. I'm sending these out one at a time to places and people I think would find it interesting. If your email address comes up again from another site, I might not recognize it, and send a second email. But I'm NOT going to send these out in some great bulk/spam/hassle thing.
Well, that's it. Have a good day.
Tom Straub
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12-09-2005 @ 6:43PM
Richard said...
You can find some more cool info about the Haunted Mansion Here:
http://www.dldhistory.com
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