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Held Saturday,
August 17th, 2002
What a blast we all had!
- This years' hearse meat blew last years' away by far! ...What a
turn out!
We had a total of 27 hearses and a couple hearse-style ambulances, 16 caskets,
11 trophies, 5 live bands, catered food, beer & soda, horseshoe games,
a bonfire at dusk, and
the weather was perfect!
We Had A "Grave"
Time!
This
years' event was held at Kelly's Pub, in Kenosha County in a small town
called Trevor. It is owned by Jim & Sue Kelly, 2 good friends of Perry.
They have a huge paved parking lot, an air-conditioned bar and dining area,
a couple acres of land for us to party on, a bonfire pit, a huge deck, enough
shade to cool off in if it got too hot, a bonfire pit, picnic tables, 3
horse-shoe pits, video games, and an enclosed miniature warehouse to use
just in case it rains. Kelly's Pub also catered the food for us to eat.
Below are photos of this days'
event.
CLICK ON ANY THUMBNAIL FOR A LARGER VIEW
Everywhere
you look...Hearses, Hearses, and more Hearses!
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1...View From The Road - 2...We tried to take over the parking lot
- 3...Troy's hearse by the road sign & orange skeleton - 4...Perry,
Mike & Jake putting up signs - 5, 6a & 6b...Unloading Mike's hearse
- 7...Welcome flier - 8...Early arrivals wait for the first band to set
up. - 9...Are we ready yet? - 10...The "coffin cooler" is ready!
- 11...Scary Perry helps the girls at the registration table.
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1...Scary Perry's 74' Cadillac Superior
Combo - 2...Morbid Matt's 70' Cadillac M&M Limo Conversion - 3...Psycho
Steve's 63' Caddy Superior 3-way - 4 & 5...Mike Laufenberg's 82 Buick
Superior & his 88' Buick Superior.
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6...Troy Hambly's 1947 Rolls Royce
Silver Wraith Hearse - 7...Rip Phantom's 65' modified Cadillac - 8...Dr.
Destruction's 80' Cadillac Superior Crown - 9...Alex Butakes' 60' Cadillac
Eureka - 10...Bill Beetsmen's 71' Caddy Superior Hearse Combo.
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11...Craig Bernstein's 92' Buick Roadmaster
- 12...Glenn Blitznick's 76' Caddy Superior Hightop Ambulance - 13...Brynley
Dolman's 72' Cadillac Deville - 14...Nicholas Yassen's 60' Caddy Eureka
- 15...Ed Gulden's 71' Caddy "Taxi" -
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16...Steve Glodoski's 72' Superior
3-way - 17...John Preiser's 83' Buick Eureka Conversion - 18...Kenosha County
Deputy Medical Examiner's 76(?) 1st call vehicle - 19...Leonard Jurgensen's
69' Olds Cotner-Bevington - 20...Tim Cahill's 80' Chevy.
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21 & 22...Dick & Carol Fogle's 71' Cadillac Crown Superior
& 75' Caddy S&S - 23...Tim & Susanne Flynn's 86 Ford Lincoln
- 24...Barb Schmaling's 83 Buick - 25...(UNKNOWN - Will the owner of this
hearse please email me)
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26...Darlene Daniels' (The HearseChic) 60' Eureka & 68' Cadillac Superior
Crown -
27...Clarke & Nancy Allen's 80' Buick Superior Armbruster
If
I get anyone's hearse wrong, please let me know.
Just Your Average Meat Group
On camera for the T.V. show,
"Dr. Destruction's Crimson Theatre"
Meet Jim and Sue...the owners of Kelly's Pub
Jim gets captured!
Several people brought caskets
and toepinchers to enter in the contest.
~(Perry Claeys & Tim Flynn won trophies for best real
casket and best homemade toepincher)~
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1A...Scary Perry with his casket and mechanical casket riser
corpse - 1B...Perry's infant casket from the 1940's. - 2...Tim & Susanne
Flynn's "Toepincher Bar" - 3 & 4...Steve Andersen's real casket
and homemade toepincher
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5...Mike Laufenberg's aqua casket - 6 & 7...Laufenberg's
vintage infant caskets -
8...Ronald Ruesch's gold casket with fog effects, occupied by Leonard (not
Jurgensen)
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9...Dick & Carol Fogle's homemade toe-pincher with the
Bride Of Dracula - 10...Rip Fantom's toepincher & skeleton -
11...Leonard Jurgensen's homemade casket - 12 Craig
Bernstein's entry owned by Molthen Bell Funeral Home - 13...Darlene Daniel's
(a.k.a. "Hearse Chic") black casket - 14...Scary Perry's "coffin
cooler" which we used to keep the soda in. - 15...Gregg Fischer's oak
casket. - 16...Ed Gulden's cloth covered casket.
Dr. Destruction and Perstephone, the
hosts of "Dr. Destruction's Crimson Theatre",
stopped by with their producer to shoot an episode of their show from our
hearse meat.
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Visit
our "Hearse Chicks" page for more hot photos of Persephone!
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Above - Rip Fantom and Mark Danger from the band,
The Rosedales, get an on-camera interview.
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1...Scary Perry & friend - 2...A
skeleton bride & groom hang out by Dick & Carol's 71' Caddy. - 3...A
rotted corpse is still waiting for a drink at The Flynn's "Toepincher
Bar" - 4 & 5...The dead hang out by Mike Laufenberg's hearses -
6..."Die"-anna kicks back in the back of Clarke & Nancy
Allen's 80' Buick - 7 & 8...Ron Ruesch's hearse looks haunted as fog
pours out the back and envelopes the gold casket.
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1 & 2...A few people hanging out
near Perry Claeys' 74 Caddy-Combo by the registration table - 3...Ed Gulden
& friend Susanne are having a good time....(of corpse!)
- 4...Ed with his 2 trophies
he won for "Ugliest Hearse" and "Furthest Distance Traveled"
(They drove 800+ miles to be with us) - 5...Mike Laufenberg displays a real
human skull he bought - 6...A small crowd gathers around Nick Yassen's 60'
Eureka - 7...Pretty hearses, all in a row - 8...One of the campers is ready
to R.I.P.
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9...Some of the Laufenberg clan with Nina & Perry - 10...Bill, Steve
& Kathy - 11...Scary Perry calls out
raffle numbers - 12...Mr. Brynley Dolman surveys us "groovy ghoulies"
- 13...Tim & Susanne Flynn pose with
Dr. Destruction and Persephone - 14...The horror hosts with "Mom"
- 15...Persephone tanning her pale skin in
the back of a hearse - 16...Persephone finds a comfortable place to rest
(in peace).
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17...Steve & Dixie - 18...Time to eat (burp) - 19...Perry
rests his legs - 20... Christian Danger & Rip Fantom
of The Rosedales relax by Rip's 65' Caddy - 21...Matt, Barb and Carol
having a laugh - 22...Jake dresses up as
Hannibal Lector - 23...Bryan & Dawn - 24...Julia & Kristen - 25...Chris
Chase smiles after winning a couple
items in our raffle. - 26...Looks like Ed Gulden dug up a date!
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26 & 27...Toni & Kristin helping out at the registration table -
28...Tracy & Cheryl - 29...Melissa & Julia - 30 & 31...Perry
gives the girls a break - 32...Funeral, hearse & horror items that were
donated for the raffles - 33...Steve and Dixie -
34...Melissa with Scott Troogstad from the Misfits cover band, Last Caress
- 35...Darlene Daniels & hubby -
36...Troy and his 1947 Rolls - 38...Scary Perry at the end of the night
- "Dead" tired!
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1 & 2...A look at Leonard Jurgensen's engine - 3...Ron
Ruesch's homemade center caps - 4...Rip Fantom's
trophy collection - 5...The tag on our local medical examiners retired first-call
vehicle.
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6...A
skull icon on Dr. Destruction's side mirror - 7...I hope Steve Glodoski
can still see after buying most of our stickers
and putting them on his back window - 8 & 9...A couple cool licence
plates - 10...Laufenberg's parking sign.
IN
ORDER OF APPEARANCE
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1...The
Form - 2...Wicked
Chicken - 3...Last Caress - 4...The
Storm - 5...The Rosedales
MORE BAND
PHOTOS TO COME
IN THE
HOUSE...
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Just a few of the "Grave Sights Gals"
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The Organizers
Matt, Steve and Perry - SUCCESS!
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING TROPHY WINNERS:
BEST
OF SHOW
Clark & Nancy Allen of Sodus, MI.
BEST MODIFIED
Rip Phantom of Chicago, IL.
OLDEST HEARSE
Troy Hambly of Plainfield, IL.
SCARIEST LOOKING HEARSE
Vice Prez. Psycho Steve Andersen of Kenosha, WI.
UGLIEST HEARSE
Ed Gulden of Warren, MN.
BEST CUSTOM INTERIOR
Co-President Morbid Matt Dunham of Sturtevant, WI.
HONORABLE MENTION
Glenn Bliznick of Antioch, IL.
BEST REAL CASKET
Founder & Prez. Scary Perry Claeys of Kenosha, WI.
BEST HOMEMADE COFFIN
(Toepincher Style)
Tim & Susanne Flynn of Wauconda, IL.
FURTHEST DISTANCE TRAVELED
Ed Gulden of Warren, MN. (800+ miles)
MOST DEAD-ICATED
MEMBER
Mike Laufenberg
of Kingston, WI.
Special
"Fangs" To The Following:
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Jim & Sue of Kelly's Pub for having our hearse meet at their fine establishment,
and for cooking and serving up the delicious food.
* Chris Chase for the cool stickers and for the design for the back of our
new t-shirts!
* Ryan Smith for designing the front logo of our t-shirts.
* Crown Trophies of Kenosha for the cool trophies.
* Arnie's Screenprinting of Kenosha for the t-shirts.
* Joni Blackstock of Mordaunte's
Coffin Gems for donating her coffin jewlery as a door prize.
* (Bands) The Rosedales, The Storm, Last Caress, Wicked Chicken and The
Form for
donating their time and talents to "intern"-tain us throughout
the event.
* Mordaunte's Coffins for donating their coffin jewlery as an added prize
to the Toepincher award.
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Mike Laufenberg for donating time, money, the tent, making the G.S. sign
& for working at the event.
* Mistress Melissa, Kristin Brown, Julia "Ghoulia" Reeser, Dawn and Bryan
Frahm, Cheryl
Miracle & Tracy Grzybowski of the "Wicked Wives", and Toni
Majerowski for working
the registration table, collecting the money, selling our t-shirts, raffle
tickets, ect...
* Perry Claeys, Mike Laufenberg, Dick Fogle and Leonard Jurgensen for donating
funeral, hearse and horror related items for raffle prizes.
* To those who donated extra ca$h towards our rally.
*And to everyone who showed up. YOU were the one's who made this event
happen and made it such a HUGE success! - YOU...KICK...ASS!
Please
share your photos of our hearse rally by emailing them to Scary Perry at:
DrDeath@acronet.net
Thanks!
