Charming Charlie

Charming Charlie playing the organ at the fun house in Cave City, Kentucky. 1977

Past posts about the fun house HERE

Lemonade Spring

Lemonade Spring in Tompkinsville Kentucky 1979.
More HERE

Wigwam

We decided to stay an extra night on this trip so we could tour Mammoth Cave on Monday.

We went and looked at the Wigwam Inn in Cave City, Kentucky.

This is a themed hotel from yesteryear.
I remember staying in these once when I was a kid.
I remember the room being small and that it smelled like soap.




You check in at a giant wigwam which also has a gift store.

The rooms are in a arch around a camp fires site which also has a playground in the center.
We went to a place where five people could sleep more comfortably.

Joel serenaded the other hotel guests.

The boys had some trouble with their sleeper sofa bed but it was a nice room.

If you look close you can see Megan's bed made up on the floor. She still has a Beauty and the Beast pillow case.

Reunion 2010

The day started out with some good preaching from Cousin Brett.

The chicken was excellent as well as the other meats.

The secret sauce! I had mine dipped and also took some extra sauce in a cup.

Elaine and my niece Delaney. Nice shirt Delaney!


Kids playing cards.


Pictures of the siblings.



A little music provided by Joel.

Me and my brother Brett.

Our families kept saying that they could tell us apart form behind.

Brett is normally bald but was sprouting hair this year which caused the confusion.

I saw him the other day and he was bald again. I figured he couldn't handle trying to keep up with my sense of style.

We also went and visited my Uncle Joe.

Mystery House

Brian, Brett and Chad 1973.

Dad took us to fun houses from time to time as kids and I loved them.
When one was opened up in the 19070's in Cave City, Kentucky Dad took us to it and I remembered it well.

The next time we were in town we stopped to go through it and it was closed and stayed closed for years.
Years later on a trip with my family we stopped and found it reopened and it has remained so.

In the 70's it was a steak house and mystery house now it sells everything you never needed.


My family waiting out side.

Then I told them that we were going on the tour, again.

They announced that it was time for the tour through the mystery house to begin and we all filed inside.

First up is the hall with optical illusion posters.

Our guide in a monotone voice - "This one moves when you move your head around and that one you will see gray dots where there are none."

The black light room.

Our guide - "Here are some posters that glow and stuff. Notice your teeth and fingers are different colors". They also had some rocks that changed colors under the black light.


We enter the gravity portion of the mystery house and the first room is a black light room with a solar system model spinning around.

Having been on previous tours I know that this current generation of tour guides are missing key gravity house elements here.
Things like the boards on a wall where you can walk right up the side of the wall and having a broom stand all by itself.

The next room does have the water that runs uphill.

It also has the table that shows how much gravity is being played with inside the mystery house.

You can see the water trough running up hill by where Megan is standing.

Levi does it backwards!

Joel making some people laugh.

If you have never been in one of these houses before it makes you feel kind of sickly inside.
It is hard to walk and you just feel dizzy.

Elaine demonstrating standing straight up in the mystery house.

Levi, in back, stands on a board that make you feel normal while you stand on it inside the mystery house. Joel is standing on the mystery house floor.

Now we take turns shrinking and growing.

Levi and Joel enjoying the hall of funny mirrors.

The group trying to find the right exit door.

Here is a video to help you get a better taste of the mystery house.