Well at least I got to go onceOriginally Posted by Boston Babe 73
In a Facebook post near midnight on Friday (Oct. 27), the management of the House of Shock declared that 2017 will be the last year for the notorious Halloween attraction in Jefferson.
"This is our final farewell!" the post announced. "The House of Shock is celebrating our 25th anniversary and with that we are announcing this year is to be our last! We have had a good run and prefer to go out on top..."
Ross Karpelman, spokesman for House of Shock, said that 2017 has been a tough year for the beloved macabre maze. Hurricane Nate may have skirted New Orleans, Karpelman said, but it still put a damper on the first weekend of October. Plus, Karpelman said, he became ill at the start of the season and has missed a few of the pyrotechnic opening performances in which he plays the devil.
But, Karpelman said, he and his partners Steve Joseph and Jay Gracianette had decided to call it quits before the 25th season began. House of Shock fans will recall that the partners announced the end of the haunted house in 2014, citing the economic instability of the seasonal attraction. But they rebounded by the next season.
The House of Shock, Karpelman said, "has never really been a business, it's been a social club."
http://www.nola.com/festivals/index....ling_it_q.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Shock
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