Originally Posted By wonderingalice So, I've been scouring the 'Net today on a mission... A mission to learn if there's anything at all - storage, elevator machinery, etc., - in the upper portion of the Haunted Mansion facade. Google hasn't helped (I even did some searches within Doombuggies.com, but came up empty). Can any LPers come to my rescue? Maybe a LPer/CM? Thanks!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Most of the space within the facade is used by the stretching rooms. Other than the area directly above the foyer, the only space not used in the stretching rooms is the corners of the building left by fitting the octagon shaped rooms into the square(ish) building, and there's no real way of accessing them.
Originally Posted By Westsider FerretAfros has got it. Although, there is about a two foot wide walkway around the octagons of the two stretch rooms. It's made of unfinished wood, and it is directly behind the windows of the north, east and south side of the mansion. The walkways allow access to the upper portion of the stretch rooms, and also contain the machines that creat the lighting effects of the passing candle in front of each window. In the southwest corner of the second floor, there is a slightly larger space that has some storage cabinets. This is the space directly above the CM breakroom that is on the same level as the Foyer, in the opposite corner of the mansion. There is also a level above the second floor, that has access to the roofs of the stretch room and the hanging body effect. And then there's the ladder up to the cupola on the roof of the mansion where tenured maids and butlers of the mansion sign their names on the wall. Not that I would know anything about that. ;-)
Originally Posted By wonderingalice Ohhhhh... Thanks so much for the great info/details, guys! I KNEW there had to be some little somethings going on up there and you definitely satisfied my curiousity.
Originally Posted By wonderingalice And Westsider... It would be really, really cool to see a photo of YOUR name up there. ;-)
Originally Posted By juicer In the 90's when I finished training on Mansion - They had us all climb up there and sign - There were even sharpies on the floor available - I did'nt know we were going to be doing this and all I could think of signing was "I was here (the date and my name)" - But some had written some funny little poems - I wish I had known in advance and I would thought of something interesting to write.
Originally Posted By Shiva wonderingalice, Wonderful topic and many thanks to FerretAfros and Westsider for the inside scoop. Part of me feels pretty lame for never even thinking about what was up there. Thanks for posting this little pearl.
Originally Posted By wonderingalice My pleasure, m'dear! Just got a bug in my patoot about it yesterday... Even though as a child before HM opened I used to constantly dream about what was up there (in my dreams it was always a walk-through Now, thanks to FA and WS, I can see the real stuff in my mind.
Originally Posted By Shiva >>Now, thanks to FA and WS, I can see the real stuff in my mind. << yu know me well enough to know that I'm now dying to see a photo
Originally Posted By juicer Is that little break room still there? - If I remember right...to get there you go through a door behind the facade - There used to be a TV and a (if you can believe it) a black leather couch!
Originally Posted By 9oldmen So, "wonderingalice", what prompted you to start this thread? Did the Mansion mark an anniversary recently? (I'm surprised this didn't come up in the thread).
Originally Posted By wonderingalice Wish it were something historic or even clever, 9oldmen. But to tell ya the truth, weird junk just pops into my head without explanation sometimes. I was just cruising various Disney stuff on YouTube yesterday and the question was sparked. I can't even remember what I was watching at the time! *LOL*
Originally Posted By 9oldmen >>Wish it were something historic or even clever, 9oldmen. But to tell ya the truth, weird junk just pops into my head without explanation sometimes. << Well, just so you know, you started the thread one day after the Mansion turned 39. (It opened on August 9, 1969).
Originally Posted By wonderingalice I knew the date but was oblivious yesterday. *LOL* Neat! My family moved to LV on July 4, 1969. My best friend in Torrance invited me down for a two-week visit later that summer and her mom took us to Disneyland - SPECIFICALLY for for the new Haunted Mansion I'd been waiting for...for seemingly forever (at 11 years old those years from the time the facade was built 'til grand opening WAS "forever!"
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs I think it would be nice if they re-sold those lenticular cards/mini-posters of the morphing portraits like they did in '99 for the 30th. I honestly don't know why they don't keep selling lenticular pins of the portraits...or even those of the staring portraits from WDW (yes, I know they're no longer there).
