Home Gallery Projects About Products News Links Contact Events Subscribe	About A TALE OF HALLOWEEN. How does one become obsessed enough with Halloween to dedicate months of time, hundreds of dollars and the better part of their home to the transformation? It all started with our family and friends. We love Halloween. They love Halloween. We've always wanted to create an elaborate yard display ... so have they. And faster than you can say "trick or treat" the plan is hatched. Next thing you know, they're spending every available minute at your house, transforming the garage, driveway, front yard and house into a realistic graveyard. From this initial haunt, the 1031 Club was born. When we purchased the house we live in today. From the moment we laid eyes on the yard, we knew its destiny was that of the ultimate Halloween cemetery. It took several years to bring the dead and dying to life, but the dream has become a reality. For over 10 years, we have created a creepy crawly yard haunt that has attracted people from all over the Portland area. It has become a spectacle of specters that we are all quite proud of. But none of this would have happened had it not been for our good friends and family members who started us down this path, as well as the inspiration from fellow yard haunters throughout the country. From our family of freaks, fiends and the gratefully undead to yours, happy haunting. THE GHOSTS WITH THE MOST... Feel a chill as you're walking through the graveyard? Think you saw a shadow creep across the crypt as you drew near? Could be your mind playing tricks... or it could be one of our special ghosts lending a helping hand as you take this spirited journey. Here's our rogue's gallery of who's haunting who. Chris Davis Our fearless leader, artistic director and task master, as well as mistress of the web (electronic, not spider). The original cheerleader for haunting the yard (sorry, the undead don't carry pom-poms). Started the first yard haunt in 1997. When she's not busy making monsters, she collects frogs ... and passers-by. Jeff Davis Technical wizard. Online shopper. Resident builder of props. Takes care of anything that moves, needs to be built or goes bump in the night. Lighting director extraordinaire. Part of the original 1031 Club. Loves old Universal and Hammer monster movies, can you tell? Chris "Toph" Reid Builder of monsters. Carver of foam. Shaper of all things evil and twisted. A kindred spirit with too much free time and the inability to say no. Crazy for crypts, a penchant for props, and a detail master when it comes to demons and such. A big gaming fan in the rest of the year. Daniel "Dan" Sharp For some people, its duct tape. For others, its crazy glue. But for Daniel Dan Sharp, the simplest way to piece together all of lifes problems is rare-earth magnets. Dan is also an expert foam carver, or, as we like to say, if it can be printed on foam, he can carve it out. He keeps the cables and connectors neat and tidy on all the electronic equipment, too. Other tricks of the trade include LED red-eye specialist and giant spider creator.       Elyssa "Elys'" Thelin What does a full-time student at Marylhurst University working towards a Masters in art therapy do in their spare time? Model for ghosts and make a mess with monster mud, of course. Meet Elys' Thelin. Wife (to Daniel). Mom (to mini-minions Gabe and Max). And resident artiste, with an artistic style thats, shall we say, right at home here in the Graveyard. Hal (aka Halloween Cat) Lots of cats hang out on the windowsill or at the foot of the bed. But when you find a stray cat who prefers hanging around the graveyard, you know you've found your kitty soul mate. Owners Chris and Jeff believe they found Hal, but Hal knows better. When the Davis were out working on crisp fall evenings, Hal curled up by the fire and supervised. He helped paint during busy season and took an occasional nap on the props. He even taught them his patented cat-scratch-fever technique to help age the tombstones. In short, Hal the Halloween cat played these two denizens of the dark like a fiddle and reeled them in like a twenty-pound tuna. Hal is currently the official welcoming committee and graveyard overseer. Be sure and say hi, er, meow, next time you're in the neighborhood. And a special thanks to everyone that lent us their support, their enthusiasm, their time ... and their spouse and/or mom and dad. Dawn Reid * Lex Reid * Marianne Davis * Max & Gabe * Kane Reynolds * Tina TenBarge Special thanks to Wayne Davis, Jason and Becky King, Tony TenBarge, Carol TenBarge, Nick and Marci Brandt, Todd Duvall, Susan Lucke, Dean Paris, Happy Trails Animation, Dick Terhune (Voice from Hell), John Kennedy and Leonard Pickel from Haunted Attraction Magazine, Milwaukie High School Dance Team, City of Milwaukie Police Department, Beth Regal (City of Milwaukie), Cheryl and Roman, Matt and Lisa Rinker, Karen McClung, Andy Westerman, and Levi Black .