John Royark JR
PCS Member
Some of you may remember in issue 135 (1st Q. 2010) of TPC there was a picture that I took of a steam powered hearse that was in storage at the House on the Rock during a Illini/Iowa chapter event.
There were two sitting there and Patrick and I sweet talked a guy into letting us go in and take a closer look. We both racked our brains for along time trying to figure these out, and later after sending a copy of the pics to Patrick he sent them to Walt, Tom and others to see if they knew anything. None of them have ever seen anything like it before.
I recently saw a picture of one of these on Face Book so decided to contact HOR again and they emailed me info on these.
They were not built in the era, as we thought. They are fantasy pieces built for Alex Jordan (the creator of House on the Rock) in the middle 1980s by woodworker Mike Olp. One is now on display, and the other is still in storage.
Mystery solved.
Here are a few pictures I took that day (fall 2009). Sorry about the poor quality, it was very dark in the storage room.
There were two sitting there and Patrick and I sweet talked a guy into letting us go in and take a closer look. We both racked our brains for along time trying to figure these out, and later after sending a copy of the pics to Patrick he sent them to Walt, Tom and others to see if they knew anything. None of them have ever seen anything like it before.
I recently saw a picture of one of these on Face Book so decided to contact HOR again and they emailed me info on these.
They were not built in the era, as we thought. They are fantasy pieces built for Alex Jordan (the creator of House on the Rock) in the middle 1980s by woodworker Mike Olp. One is now on display, and the other is still in storage.
Mystery solved.
Here are a few pictures I took that day (fall 2009). Sorry about the poor quality, it was very dark in the storage room.