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GodSistah
08-18-2006, 10:22 PM
http://www.sfvampiretour.com/
Me and my sister are going to go tomorrow night on this Vampire Tour in San Francisco. Sounds kinda fun. Anybody else ever been on this tour or anything like it?
:)
~Andrea~
ponytail
08-18-2006, 10:35 PM
I've never been on a "vampire tour," but I once took a "Haunted History" tour of St. Petersburg. (Where they point out, and tell stories about, supposedly "haunted" places.) That was fun.
It sounds like a clever idea. If "Mina" is a good storyteller, you should have a great time. Let us know what it was like!
DaveM
08-19-2006, 12:58 PM
Redjack really needs to organize a Pirate Tour of Pittsburgh.
Randy & Betty in Pa
08-19-2006, 02:43 PM
When I was young I wanted to be a vampire... But the rejection must be terrible so I gave up the idea after going to a couple baseball games and hearing the drunks in the grandstands yelling "Kill the vampire!!!"
Still I imagine if a vampire tour is anything like the well known ghost tours given at Gettysburg it's probably pretty cool... Godsistah Don't forget to give us a review....
Best to all
R. from Pa
I still want to be a vampire. I heard they can fly and all. And all kinds of other neat tricks. In fact I have even written a story about a vampire. The one thing that I would find hard is to actually harm my victims. I am very much into the concensoual stuff, you know...
I did hear that vampires are always hungry for blood though. Hm, maybe feeling hungry all the time is not so good... Then again, it's not much different from how I normally feel... :D I would miss the sun on my skin anyway... *sigh*
Have you ever seen the cartoon 'Count Duckula'? He is a Disney figure. He used to be a v terrib;e vampire but one day Igor gave him tomatoketchup instead of blood, by mistake. From then on he became the worlds first vegetarian vampire... :D
Eva
RedjackRyan
08-20-2006, 04:29 AM
Theres a guy at work from Romania i believe, sounds just like Bela Legosi in all those dracula films.. He comes into my office (i share the room with two other guys) but no one ever hears the door open/close.. he's just there. Two of us have started keeping bulbs of garlic at our desks and i made a big crucifix out of old simm memory modules..
Randy & Betty in Pa
08-20-2006, 09:21 AM
Two of us have started keeping bulbs of garlic at our desks and i made a big crucifix out of old simm memory modules..
Leave it to Redjack to twist this into a food thread just because a co-worker mumbled at him "I vant tu bite jur neck!"
Best to all and good morning
R. from Pa
ponytail
08-20-2006, 12:40 PM
I'd make a terrible vampire. I could never give up garlic. I put it in everything.
I do remember Count Duckula. I watched him on Nickolodeon, and was very bummed when they cancelled him. I liked his huge Nanny, who would come crashing into situations like a bull in a china shop. I wish they'd bring him back, but I guess that's already been done once...
Redjack, if you want to test your co-worker, get a cigarette case with a mirror...that's how Van Helsing did it...
In the days that Dracula was supposed to have lived in Transsylvania, this territory was still Hungary. Nowadays it is Romania. In the old movies with Bela Lugosi (a Hungarian guy) the villagers speak Hungarian. They say very simply sentences like "I am afraid" or "Don't go to the kastle". Nothing really interesting. But I guess it all sounded very exotic for north American and western European audiences.
Bela Lugosi had a thick Hungarian accent. The funny thing was that he also put on a version of how a eastern European accent was supposed to sound according to Hollywood. So if he speaks English I hear his fake accent and his real accent. It's hilarious. And then together with hearing the villagers I couldn't stop laughing.
Eva
DaveM
08-20-2006, 03:14 PM
Redjack--if he wants blood, offer barbecue sauce!
Randy & Betty in Pa
08-20-2006, 06:33 PM
In the days that Dracula was supposed to have lived in Transsylvania, this territory was still Hungary. Nowadays it is Romania. In the old movies with Bela Lugosi (a Hungarian guy) the villagers speak Hungarian. They say very simply sentences like "I am afraid" or "Don't go to the kastle". Nothing really interesting. But I guess it all sounded very exotic for north American and western European audiences.
Bela Lugosi had a thick Hungarian accent. The funny thing was that he also put on a version of how a eastern European accent was supposed to sound according to Hollywood. So if he speaks English I hear his fake accent and his real accent. It's hilarious. And then together with hearing the villagers I couldn't stop laughing.
Eva
And so says our dear Eva, Queen of the Piratious Vampires...
ponytail
08-21-2006, 01:00 PM
Bela Lugosi had a thick Hungarian accent. The funny thing was that he also put on a version of how a eastern European accent was supposed to sound according to Hollywood. So if he speaks English I hear his fake accent and his real accent. It's hilarious. And then together with hearing the villagers I couldn't stop laughing.
Eva
You need to watch "Nosferatu," the silent version of Dracula, with Max Schreck. It has its silly aspects too, but it still creeps me out.
Yes Ponytail, it's quite creepy. I have seen it. Usually I can't watch scary movies because I won't be able to sleep for two weeks. I have hardly seen any horrormovies in my life. But Bela Lugosi is fun. I can understand though that the 'special effects' were considered to be very scary in the days this movie was playing. Nowadays it seems a little too theatrical to be really scary.
Andrea, how was the tour?
PA Randy, I just mentioned to Redjack a few days ago that I have close acquaintence. She is known as the Vampire Queen and lives in Manchester UK. She does poetry and cabaret and begins her shows with "Good evening mortals. I hope you are all sitting uncomfortably". She has the looks, the voice and the wardrobe. She is big fun. But you can understand that it would be the team from hell if the Pirate Queen and the Vampire Queen would team up... :D
http://www.rosielugosi.co.uk/
Eva
DaveM
08-21-2006, 11:13 PM
Not long ago I saw a "restored" DVD of another silent classic, "The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari". Not perfect, but vastly improved from the copies some of us have seen--also the title cards have been vastly improved and are a better translation from the German. Well worth seeing.
GodSistah
08-21-2006, 11:39 PM
This was actually pretty cool. My sister, a health nut, made me walk from the BART station at Market and Powell all the way up to California and Taylor, which if you don't know San Francisco, is not very far but extremely steep!
So I was very happy when I found out that the walking tour would all be on flat land! The tour itself costs $20 but we got to go for $10 through some program my sister has at work.
Well the tour guide was a hilarious lady and we saw a few interesting spots, one of which was Grace Cathdral. She told a lot of vampire stories and haunted house stories, but what was impressive was that without all the vampire gimick, this tour would have been just as interesting because the majority was based in factual San Francisco history and she knew a lot of it.
I thought there would be a lot of walking, but there was not that much. There was a lot of talking though...and she seemed to have it time really well because as soon as my mind started to wonder from what she was saying [my mind: 'gee, what if we have an earthquake'] she would start off for another spot.
My sister's only complaint was that we didn't actually go in anywhere except The Fairmont Hotel [We saw where the stairway scene in Gone with the Wind was filmed]. That didn't bother me at all though. I had great time.
Not sure if it would have been as much fun if "Mina" the tour guide wasn't so funny! :)
~Andrea~
Marcia Drummergal
08-22-2006, 11:18 AM
Seems to me I was on Taylor Street once. Isn't that one of the streets that has steps alongside it instead of a sidewalk? I would have been leery if I had to drive on it. I drove down Lombard St. with someone in a large car. When we started to go down the street all you could see was the hood of her car, you couldn't see the street at all! I think that was scarier than vampires!!
LOL!
Marcia :eek:
DaveM
08-22-2006, 01:14 PM
This is off-topic, but has anyone ever taken the tour of "Underground Seattle" (http://www.undergroundtour.com/ --though the web site doesn't show much)? Apparently, around 1900, the city of Seattle raised all of its street levels up to 20 feet, leaving at least one story of major buildings below ground level. The "underground" apparently saw some intriguing uses of the years, which included brothels, opium dens, and the inevitable Prohibition-era illicit distilleries and speakeasies.
One can tour portions of the "old city" and I'm told that it's fascinating. Probably a good spot for ghosts and vampires as well.
DaveM
08-22-2006, 01:38 PM
A few pictures, at least, at http://www.eveandersson.com/usa/wa/seattle
As a matter of fact I just did that Underground Tour last Friday!
It was very interesting and a little creepy. We were more concerned about seeing rats than ghosts or vampires though.
DaveM
08-23-2006, 11:59 PM
Fascinating, Dar....surely the place wouldn't be complete without a ghost or two?
One of the original "Kolchak" movies, "The Night Strangler", involved a quasi-vampire fellow who was hiding in what was referred to as "Old Seattle". The place, as presented in the film, is far more gradiose than the reality. But it's fun to watch in the "midnight movie" sense.
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