By Will Campbell –
October 30, 2005Posted in: Uncategorized
I was bummed to just learn from L.A. Observed that the 32-year tradition of Gary Corb and his family and friends transforming their Studio City home into the Hallowed Haunting Grounds will be coming to an end with this Halloween.
From the website:
Every year the show gets a litle bigger and every year we get a little older. At some point the pain of building the show becomes greater than the pain of not doing it. We are reaching that point and we wish to see what else goes on in October. It saddens us, but an end for anything is inevitable.
I’ve strolled its Sacred Wood several times over the years and let me tell you, this is not just some bargain basement yard haunt. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say its elaborate effects and remarkable presentation rival Disney’s Haunted Mansion. But enough of the sales pitch. It’s well worth the trip ó especially since after tomorrow night it will be no more.
Where: 4343 Babcock Avenue, Studio City
One block west of Whitsett Avenue, just south of Moorpark Street
When: Tonight and Halloween from 7 p.m. – midnight
Photo from Hallowed Haunting Grounds website.
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About the Author
Will Campbell arrived in Los Angeles via the maternity ward at Good Sam Hospital way back in the sixty-fourth year of the previous century and has never lived anywhere else, which makes him two things: middle-aged and a native. He can count 16 residences over the course of his nomadic existence as a latchkey kid and deadbolt adult and presently he resides in Silver Lake with his wife
Susan, their four cats, three treefrogs, two dogs, and a Russian tortoise named Buster. Blogging since 2001, Will's web endeavors extend back to 1995 with laonstage.com, a comprehensive theater site that was well received but ever-short on capital (or a business model). For better or worse, the pinnacle of his online success arrived in 1997, when much to his surprise, a hobby site he'd built called VisuaL.A. was chosen "Best Website" in Los Angeles magazine's annual "Best of L.A." issue (in large part no doubt because he shrewdly avoided using blinking text which was all the Web 1.0 rage back then). He enjoys experiencing (and writing about) pretty much anything creative, explorational and/or adventurous; is an alternate transportation proponent, a horrible golf player and an OK tennis player. His prefered mode of civic travel is a bike, and he loves all creatures great and small -- especially the ones people can't stand like coyotes, and opossums and spiders and potato bugs. As a rule he carries a camera with him pretty much everywhere he goes.
Oh yeah -- And when he was a leeeetle boy he thought he was related to his idol, Dodgers pitching legend Sandy Koufax because they were both southpaws. Secretly he still wishes it were true. He can be found on Twitter via: @wildbell. His email addy is wildbellatgmaildotcom.
