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skylar
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shibby wrote: If you head south from SF, to SJ we got the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, and Winchester Mystery House! the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum has a couple of mummies! and a tomb mock up tour! Winchester Mystery House has flashlight tours this time of year! Links for both bellow! http://www.egyptianmuseum.org/http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/I've wanted to see the Winchester Mystery House for years now!!!
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alifeintoys
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missy wrote: neither of us drink, so the bar/wine recommendations do us no good.  what a pitty - what do u do for fun instead??? 
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skylar
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alifeintoys wrote: missy wrote: neither of us drink, so the bar/wine recommendations do us no good. what a pitty - what do u do for fun instead??? 1. watch horror movies
2. collect toys
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ramos
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I want to hit the winchester house !
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Locomoco
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I used to work in a comic book shop, and the owner used to be a tour guide for the Winchester Mystery House when he was a teenager. He got bored with the standard tour info, so he used to make stuff up about how one room's floor was supposed to be cursed, so Sara Winchester would swing across the room like a monkey using the exposed pipes from the ceiling. He got fired soon after that... but he later went on to write Justice League for DC for a while. 
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locomoto566
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ramos wrote: I want to hit the winchester house ! Hollar. I'll meetcha there, seriously my schedule is free.
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skylar
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locomoto566 wrote: ramos wrote: I want to hit the winchester house ! Hollar. I'll meetcha there, seriously my schedule is free. why don't you clowns wait until November and go with us?!
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Pogue
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skylar wrote: locomoto566 wrote: ramos wrote: I want to hit the winchester house ! Hollar. I'll meetcha there, seriously my schedule is free. why don't you clowns wait until November and go with us?! field trip!
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locomoto566
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Pogue wrote: skylar wrote: locomoto566 wrote: ramos wrote: I want to hit the winchester house ! Hollar. I'll meetcha there, seriously my schedule is free. why don't you clowns wait until November and go with us?! field trip! Ooh! I remember the ads at the drive-in in Alameda
Ghostly lady's voice: keep building. . . keeeep building. .
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sndbyte
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When I was a teenager I worked at the Mystery House one summer. I wasn't a tour guide but worked at the snack bar. One time we had an employee party at night and had a scavenger hunt through out the house. That was pretty fun.
Years ago when I was in grammer school they had a wax museum there. We used to sneak in check out all the guns, wax figures and other stuff they had on display. I'm pretty sure the wax museum is no longer there though. The took it out before they built the snackbar/cafe in the mid 80's.
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moriachi
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So....what IS the mystery house?
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Locomoco
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moriachi wrote: So....what IS the mystery house? Basically, there was this whacked out lady named Sara Winchester who was the heiress to the Winchester Rifle fortune. She was apparently very superstitious, and a fortune teller told her that she would be haunted by all the ghosts of people killed by the guns made by her family, and that the only way to avoid the curse would be for her to continuously add onto her house... so she had this huge ass house built, with no real buidling code inspector OKs... door open into walls, stairs go to a ceiling with no opening... etc... Home Depot and Bob Villa would've loved her.
She apparently died when the construction crew was on a break...
I grew up in San Jose (where the house is), and I have never been inside for a tour...
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Frank Kozik
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yeah,,she was Winchester's wife and she was too build a room for each of the men her husbands rifles had killed.
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moriachi
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Nuts. Sounds a crazy place. How big is it?
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skylar
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sndbyte
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It's something like 106 rooms.
I'd love to see that 'Keep building...' drive-in commercial again. That always crept me out as a kid.
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locomoto566
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sndbyte wrote: When I was a teenager I worked at the Mystery House one summer. I wasn't a tour guide but worked at the snack bar. One time we had an employee party at night and had a scavenger hunt through out the house. That was pretty fun.
Years ago when I was in grammer school they had a wax museum there. We used to sneak in check out all the guns, wax figures and other stuff they had on display. I'm pretty sure the wax museum is no longer there though. The took it out before they built the snackbar/cafe in the mid 80's. Hey, do you remember Frontier Village? I think that was down in the SJ area in the 70's.
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shibby
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Two really great restaurants on Winchester, Khan’s, excellent Vietnamese, try the Vietnamese special rice dish! And Krung Thai, for great Thailand dishes! The Neua Kra-Praw is wonderful!
Unfortunately Khan’s does not have a website, but here’s a review:
http://www.topix.net/content/cj/15057993663317137257
http://www.newkrungthai.com/
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sndbyte
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yeah I remember going to Frontier Village when I was a kid. That place was pretty fun. It went out of business once Great America opened up.
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Locomoco
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sndbyte wrote: yeah I remember going to Frontier Village when I was a kid. That place was pretty fun. It went out of business once Great America opened up. I absolutely LOVED Frontier Village!!!
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locomoto566
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Locomoco wrote: sndbyte wrote: yeah I remember going to Frontier Village when I was a kid. That place was pretty fun. It went out of business once Great America opened up. I absolutely LOVED Frontier Village!!! Remember the fishin' hole? Fishin' for trout with corn. I think they closed to build an old folks home. That was one of my favorite places as a kid, along with the Boardwalk and Santa's Village. Good times.
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