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Ms. Jenn
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 Posted: 01/14/05 - 20:46 Post subject: Everything you wanted to know about a funeral home
but were too shy to ask.
This thread is specifically for Pete, theduck.
My question: Why do hearses have the curly q things on the side? What's the history or hidden meaning or is it when we buy a used station wagon we know it used to be a hearse?
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JACKED UP
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Posted: 01/14/05 - 21:58 Post subject:
Oh, I know a good bit about funeral homes. Too much really. Most of you know my gym is in the same building as a funeral home. I have been over there in the wee hours of the morning or late at night when it's closed.  It is freaky and really dark, no windows at all, none. We wanna go in there some night and take a pic of one of us lying in a casket just for sh!ts and giggles.  The other day I had to go in there cuz I was looking for salt for the icy walk way and it was closed. I was creeping around and came around a corner and saw a washer and dryer and a big pile of towels on the floor, I just about broke my neck trying to get outta there. And then there's the basement.......
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HighHeat
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Posted: 01/14/05 - 22:02 Post subject:
| JACKED UP wrote: | | Oh, I know a good bit about funeral homes. Too much really. Most of you know my gym is in the same building as a funeral home. I have been over there in the wee hours of the morning or late at night when it's closed. It is freaky and really dark, no windows at all, none. We wanna go in there some night and take a pic of one of us lying in a casket just for sh!ts and giggles. The other day I had to go in there cuz I was looking for salt for the icy walk way and it was closed. I was creeping around and came around a corner and saw a washer and dryer and a big pile of towels on the floor, I just about broke my neck trying to get outta there. And then there's the basement....... |
If you're gonna B&E,... B&E at the liquor store, or even the sporting good store... not the funeral parlor.
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theduck
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Posted: 01/14/05 - 22:10 Post subject:
The bars are called Landau bars, and are mainly used for decoration.
They used to also be multi-purpose vehicles. Alot of times the funeral homes also ran the ambulance service in each town, before they became a specialized group, like paramedics.
Mostly, like a Lincoln for example, is based on the Town Car chasis, and then stretched and made into a hearse. Same way with the limos. A new Lincoln or Cadillac hearse will run a funeral director about 65K, maybe up to 70K...alot of dough for a car that is used mainly for 3 and 4 mile trips between the church and the cemetery.
Sometimes, 1500 miles is a high mileage year, depending on your area.
Pete
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mudrunner
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Posted: 01/14/05 - 23:19 Post subject:
| theduck wrote: | . A new Lincoln or Cadillac hearse will run a funeral director about 65K, maybe up to 70K...alot of dough for a car that is used mainly for 3 and 4 mile trips between the church and the cemetery.
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When I was visiting Pittsburgh, I met a couple that had flown in from western Michigan to buy a second hand hearse. He found it on eBay & was going to drive it back. Saved a bundle apparently. It was a very interesting story.
I can't remember what funeral home he owned or even the name of his town, but him & his wife were two of the most lively & funny people I have ever met. "Could be worse...I could be one of my clients!" he would say.
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Ms. Jenn
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Posted: 01/15/05 - 01:24 Post subject:
What would have the pile o' towels been used for (like Jacked encountered) ?
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theduck
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Posted: 01/15/05 - 02:28 Post subject:
| Ms. Jenn wrote: | | What would have the pile o' towels been used for (like Jacked encountered) ? |
Any number of things...we use them to clean around the prep room, as in drying people off after "THE LAST BATH", which will eventually be the name of the novel I'm writing (I have elevene words in it so far, pretty good for two years), from drying off cars, wiping down caskets, soaking up spills from flowers, knocking cobwebs out of corners...
...you name, a towel can do it around our place...
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Posted: 01/15/05 - 08:09 Post subject:
| JACKED UP wrote: | | I was creeping around and came around a corner and saw a washer and dryer and a big pile of towels on the floor, I just about broke my neck trying to get outta there. And then there's the basement....... |
 nice visual
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akern
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Posted: 01/15/05 - 10:19 Post subject:
I watched some special on the History channel or something years ago, that told you about the history of death. The what people used to do, and where a lot of today's customs came from. It was very interesting, of course I can't remember much of it anymore....
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Posted: 01/15/05 - 10:59 Post subject:
I love Harold and Maude..... 
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