Front Room Balcony question Bill or anyone

[robertk]

I have a question about the balcony in the grand hall or front room. Was the balcony only on the one side (the side where you entered the cellblock) or was it shaped like an L with the other side along the wall opposite from the fireplace/Dracula portrait the wall where the secret door was into the windy halls area? Where was the access to the upper balcony? If that section would have ever been used as part of the attraction, what would the layout have been? I'm thinking maybe after the ramp going up with the curved bump pads there would have been access up to the balcony, unless there were hidden stairs somewhere out of public view. There probably would have been a liability of someone falling over the balcony fence down to the main floor if it were used for the public. There was an unfinished staircase in the back by the dressing area the walls were painted white. The fire codes probably were why the other staircases couldn't be used unless they were concrete or steel, yet they used the ramp and stairs over the cellblock near the end.

[fish]

Jun 27, 2009 18:42:44 GMT -5 robertk said:

I have a question about the balcony in the grand hall or front room. Was the balcony only on the one side (the side where you entered the cellblock) or was it shaped like an L with the other side along the wall opposite from the fireplace/Dracula portrait the wall where the secret door was into the windy halls area? Where was the access to the upper balcony? If that section would have ever been used as part of the attraction, what would the layout have been? I'm thinking maybe after the ramp going up with the curved bump pads there would have been access up to the balcony, unless there were hidden stairs somewhere out of public view. There probably would have been a liability of someone falling over the balcony fence down to the main floor if it were used for the public. There was an unfinished staircase in the back by the dressing area the walls were painted white. The fire codes probably were why the other staircases couldn't be used unless they were concrete or steel, yet they used the ramp and stairs over the cellblock near the end.

Was an L shape...long side over Cell Block, short side over coffin. Steps were in the Make up room...in the Bell(less) Tower.

Remember sitting up there during Halloween Firemen thang, tossing beer cans into the coffin...fun stuff!!

[robertk]

ok fish or anyone, I'm trying to picture this, in the photos of the front room on here, there's only a few looking up toward the ceiling, you can see the wooden railing along the wall where the hanging banners were, and the huge (fake?) wood beam underneath the balcony. But there's no views of the upper part of the wall opposite of the fireplace wall, you know the wall where the coffin (and at some point the 2 round portraits) were when entering from outside the wall to your left. On that wall was the balcony only halfway across the wall? Was there a door way up there at that end of the balcony? Where did the balcony go past the fake stone wall where Drac and fireplace were, and on the opposite end above coffin? There was a door on the main floor along the same wall near the entrance door that went into the windy halls.

[lorenzothegeek]

What the hell are the windy hall's

[robertk]

The windy halls were the Maze between Execution and Ramp over the Cellblock.