Haunted House of Mystery

Here is a promotional flyer for an attraction that my dad was doing when he first came out to California. It is really pretty clever. On the front is a drawing of a spooky house.

When you open the flyer it actually pops up the point of the roof so the interior is twice the size of the cover. Here you will find pictures and a little more description of what the effect entails.









On the back is contact information and some more description. My parents were headquartered out of my Grandparents house in South Pasadena, so that was the contact info. No cell phone or web sites in those days. I wonder how many times my Grandmother must have answered questions about a Haunted House.

The art work was clearly done by my Mother, she had a great talent for this kind of thing. She had been the main Window Dresser at Jacobsons Department store in Battle Creek before they got married.  I think I have the actual typewriter that this was prepared with. The lettering is very familiar. I have no idea what happened to the prop.