![]() ![]() ![]() And, the professional contractor says, “It’s to code, as far as beams and joists and rafters and everything, for the safety of the public.”Īs a 10-year-old, Schiro made his first haunted house in his garage with newspaper-stuffed dummies swinging from pulleys. This year’s three-story structure is the highest in Schiro’s 22 years of making large-scale haunts. That’s when he and his “Boo Crew” start brainstorming their annual San Jose haunted house, which launched construction in early August. With the pandemic waning and trick-or-treats rising, the holiday spectacles are more jaw dropping than ever, with a creepy shooting gallery, a murky “laser swamp,” a strange “Draven” and flurries of skeletons delivering frighteningly bad stand-up comedy.įor Bob Schiro, Halloween begins in January. But come Halloween, they’re at Level 10, creating the Bay Area’s most ghoulish destinations. For most of the year, these people have non-spooky jobs. Take this quartet, for example: a Redwood City insurance salesman, a Martinez DJ, a Livermore electrical-engineering estimator and a San Jose contractor. The haunted house is only open on Halloween from dusk until about midnight and is free to the public.Some people take Halloween decorations way too seriously - much to the delight of the rest of us. So, I'm trying to embrace all the time, doing something you wouldn't think of, and make it exciting for people to look at," Aamot said. ![]() "It's just something different I haven't done before and it's always a challenge. This year he wanted to play with color, which is why he chose to do a chocolate store theme. He builds them with material he finds, spending very little money. I was in a wheelchair half the time building it but I haven't missed a year yet," Aamot said.Īmmot said he focuses on texture, fog and making the haunted houses interactive. He makes the haunted houses on his own for the community. Love seeing the look on kids and 80, 70-year-old people when they come up, and I know a lot of friends that come from out of the area," Aamot said. He said he has always been an artist, even building sets when he was in high school. Years before that, pirate ships and I just change it up," Aamot said.Īamot said he used to be a stage manager at L.A.'s American film institute. (KABC) - Duane Aamot has been making Halloween haunted houses in Alhambra for 27 years. ![]()
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