Wednesday - Funeral Exhibition
Sep. 19th, 2007 01:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ninanevermoreSince someone said he was interested in seeing pictures of the funeral museum, I thought I'd post a few. I don't have pictures of the heads in a case, however. I never made it back into that part of the building. Still, I do have photos of some of the quirky things that I described on Monday.
(Warning, lots of photos, slow internet connections open at your own risk.)
First, the Family-Sized Casket:
This was before the food industry started lacing our food with high-fructose corn syrup. Sadly, a casket for a modern American family would need to be twice as wide…
The Yamaha Outboard Motor Casket, from Ghana:
Yes, this is big enough to put a human being into. Really. Ghana is a fishing and agricultural culture, and owning a real Yamaha Outboard Motor is a major status symbol. Being buried in one is almost as nice, I guess.
You can see the open lid to the 3-person coffin in the background, which gives you a better idea of how big it actually is.
The Outboard Motor is not as fun as the Chicken Casket, however:
Or as cool as the Leopard Casket:
Nice, kitty...
I like to call this one the "Make your grave worth Robbing" casket:
These coins and bills are in mint condition, uncirculated, making the cash slighly more valuable than its face value. It started off with $1000 in it, but some of the panels were stolen at one point, so only $643 remains.
In the celebrity funeral memorabilia case, the most interesting things I saw were the program and iced cookie for Rodney Dangerfield. Rather than a photo of the deceased like most funeral programs, his had a red, satin necktie on it. It was the food at the funeral that had the dead man's (cartoon) face on it.
Once upon a time, ambulances and hearses were one in the same. If you were alive, they took you one place, and if not they took you elsewhere. It looks like the gurney has a bloodstain on it, but it is actually the reflection of the red cross in the stained glass window on the side of the vehicle.
Into Egypt? How about this coffin?
"Dashing through the snow, in a one horse open hearse
Over the hills we go, trying not to curse…"
For Disney Fans, here is a real-life Snow White Coffin:
And last of all, a fine example of Victorian Funeral Overkill:
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(Warning, lots of photos, slow internet connections open at your own risk.)
This was before the food industry started lacing our food with high-fructose corn syrup. Sadly, a casket for a modern American family would need to be twice as wide…
The Yamaha Outboard Motor Casket, from Ghana:
Yes, this is big enough to put a human being into. Really. Ghana is a fishing and agricultural culture, and owning a real Yamaha Outboard Motor is a major status symbol. Being buried in one is almost as nice, I guess.
You can see the open lid to the 3-person coffin in the background, which gives you a better idea of how big it actually is.
The Outboard Motor is not as fun as the Chicken Casket, however:
Or as cool as the Leopard Casket:
Nice, kitty...
I like to call this one the "Make your grave worth Robbing" casket:
These coins and bills are in mint condition, uncirculated, making the cash slighly more valuable than its face value. It started off with $1000 in it, but some of the panels were stolen at one point, so only $643 remains.
In the celebrity funeral memorabilia case, the most interesting things I saw were the program and iced cookie for Rodney Dangerfield. Rather than a photo of the deceased like most funeral programs, his had a red, satin necktie on it. It was the food at the funeral that had the dead man's (cartoon) face on it.
Once upon a time, ambulances and hearses were one in the same. If you were alive, they took you one place, and if not they took you elsewhere. It looks like the gurney has a bloodstain on it, but it is actually the reflection of the red cross in the stained glass window on the side of the vehicle.
Into Egypt? How about this coffin?
"Dashing through the snow, in a one horse open hearse
Over the hills we go, trying not to curse…"
For Disney Fans, here is a real-life Snow White Coffin:
And last of all, a fine example of Victorian Funeral Overkill:
