Good News and Old News

First the Old News, as I was reminiscing about Knott's Berry Farm in my last blog. Coincidentally, a couple of days later friend sent to me a photo of the time when Knott's Berry Farm had first started Halloween Haunt. During the early years before the host of the "Elvira Show the Mistress of the Dark" it was the pioneer of night thriller was "Seymour the Master of Macabre". We laughed as he brought back many memories for us. I especially liked watching him on TV on Friday nights and he would pop up on the corner of the screen and tell a joke relating to the  thriller or scary movie. He was quite witty and funny too. Thanks BV for sharing.

Now we move on to the Good News!!! More events to come this summer, I have already have had a few great and wonderful events this summer  all over the Soutland. I am very excited for the ones I have coming up. It's the time of year when we have so much going on in addition to  weddings, birthdays, family reunions. I am so glad that I have one of these beauties come with me as my assistant they help me to keep the flow moving. I can get so many more silhouettes done as long as I have them mounting the silhouettes on the 5x7 card for the guests to take home.

Summertime

Summertime brings back many memories for me. Especially as I still live very close to Knott's Berry Farm and Disneyland.

Today is the 4th of July. I can remember many years I spent working on the 4th and the days at the old amusement park would be so busy. Early on in Fiesta Village the seal lions would be barking for food and I could hear the bleating goats in the Animal Farm. The music from the famous Ballet Folklorico de Lampara del Cielo. (Or the name similar to that.) As they would perform every hour all day. The guests asking all day where are the restrooms or the Log Ride, or the Calico Mine Ride, etc,(if I could have a nickel for every question). The long lines for tacos and burritos. The iron on T-shirts, and the infamous candy store. The sounds of the gunshots of the train robbers and stagecoach robbers and the clinging of the chains on the horses as they pass us by on the stagecoach. Voices of the guests screaming in the background as they would go down the last fall of the log ride. it is ghost like in my memory.

 I can remember doing hundreds of silhouettes each day for guests from around the world. The lines would be long all day. I could hardly understand their language and barely communicate with them. But with a lot of pointing and smiling we managed to understand what was needed. The number of silhouettes and how many frames, square or oval. We managed. Oh yes. I miss those days sometimes and most days I don't. I am glad to service  people I do. Especially he way I do now  with the parties, weddings, customized the way each one wants it exactly the way they like it. I know the way it used to be in the summertime years ago. And for all the years I endured and enjoyed it. I have come to be of service to you.