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[Monsterfink]

how about these Monster Slurpee Cups that 7-11 gave away in the 70's

[Monsters For Sale]

how about these Monster Slurpee Cups that 7-11 gave away in the 70's?...

Look like great additions to me.

Thanks for continuing the thread.  I was hoping there would be more contributors to this one.

[Scatter]

   I would rather have obscurity with dignity.

Except, obviously, in your personal life.

[Mord]

Except, obviously, in your personal life.

Well, yeah...

[Monsters For Sale]

This free brochure from House of Frankenstein attraction features a cut-out mask.


Closed Brochure:




Open Brochure - Outside:




Open Brochure - Inside:

[Mord]

Now that is absolutely cool with sixties-style artwork. What year is this from?

[marsattacks666]

how about these Monster Slurpee Cups that 7-11 gave away in the 70's

Brings back memories. I dig those classic cups. I have some in my collection.

[Monsters For Sale]

Now that is absolutely cool with sixties-style artwork. What year is this from?

I have no idea.  I don't see anything on the House of Frankenstein brochure that would indicate a date.

[aura of foreboding]

I have no idea.  I don't see anything on the House of Frankenstein brochure that would indicate a date.

The brochure's pitch is strongly inspired by the narration of Disney's Haunted Mansion (1969).  I'm thinking early 1970s for this brochure... or earlier and a whole bunch of coincidental similarities.   

[Haunted hearse]

The brochure's pitch is strongly inspired by the narration of Disney's Haunted Mansion (1969).  I'm thinking early 1970s for this brochure... or earlier and a whole bunch of coincidental similarities.   

http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?action=post;quote=376968;topic=22269.105  This link says the one in lake George opened April 13th 2013. 

[aura of foreboding]

http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?action=post;quote=376968;topic=22269.105  This link says the one in lake George opened April 13th 2013.

The link didn't work, HH, but I looked it up myself.  Sure enough the website says opening 2013, but there are online reviews of the place going back to 2005... so the attraction has obviously been there a lot longer.  If it is a recent attraction, somebody must have really been dedicated to the 1960s to pull that brochure off!  The website looks nothing at all like the brochure.   

ADD:

In fact, one review from 2006 said it opened over 30 years ago, which puts it in the 1970s. 

[Haunted hearse]

This was the link I meant to post.
http://www.frankensteinwaxmuseum.com/ -New york  Here's the one in Canada
http://houseoffrankenstein.ca/
Your brochure has both of them run by the same company, but these two links differ enough, which makes me suspect that they are now run independantly of each other.  I have no idea of how old your brochure is, but it certainly isn't for the present day business of that name.  You might want to contact them out of curiosity, to see if maybe they know about when they may have issued that brochure.

[aura of foreboding]

It could be HH, as the one in Lake George (which probably was renovated and then re-opened in April), has multiple reviews by people talking about how they visited the place as children in the 1970s.  Maybe they sold one off, or the original owners sold both.  But it is still probably the same attraction -- especially given the reviews that indicate how "old" and "not scary" the place is, having "not been touched since the 1970s."  Personally, that's a positive review in my book, though they never intended it that way.   

[Monolith]

The brochure's pitch is strongly inspired by the narration of Disney's Haunted Mansion (1969).  I'm thinking early 1970s for this brochure... or earlier and a whole bunch of coincidental similarities.   

I have that same brochure with the Frankenstein mask on it. I got it when I went there in the early '70's.
I don't know how many years they printed them, but it's at least early '70's. I see them on e-bay from time to time. I also got another brochure when I went there that I almost never see around, it has black and white photo's inside of some of the exhibits and descriptions of all of them.

I posted pics here...

http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=8125.msg127132#msg127132

[Monsters For Sale]

Here is a flatter picture of the cut-out mask from that brochure:





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Here is another free House of Frankenstein brochure that is of a different design, but which also has a cut-out mask:




There are no dotted lines showing where to cut out the eyes, but there are holes indicating where to attach the strap that would hold it on a kid's face.

I may have this yellow brochure saved away somewhere, but it is not right at hand - and I do not have an image of the other side. 

Note that the yellow brochure mentions "Clifton Hill" from the Canadian address on the purple brochure, but does not mention Lake George from the U.S. address.  Were there two "Houses" located in separate locations, or one "House" that had two addresses?

Did this place physically straddle the border and have separate entrances for both countries?

I've always wondered about this attraction, but never known anyone who actually visited it.