Diva
04-15-02, 07:57AM
WAXAHACHIE (http://www.startribune.com/stories/1451/2223239.html), Texas -- Sandra McKee has lost count of how much she has spent on memorabilia from the 1960s TV show "The Munsters.''
Now she and her husband, Charles, are spending $250,000 to build a 5,800-square-foot, Victorian-style house to replicate the creepy home shown on the program.
From video clips and photos acquired from "Munsters'' collectors around the country, the McKees are painstakingly re-creating the home inhabited on TV by Herman, wife Lily, Grandpa, cousin Marilyn and young son Eddie.
Sandra McKee, 44, owns copies of all 70 episodes of the sitcom, which is about a family of odd, Gothic characters headed by Herman, a lookalike of Frankenstein's monster.
McKee, a retired insurance agent, has made a "Munsters'' fan out of her husband, who went along with building the two-story, 5,800-square-foot house. The frame home has arched windows, 10-foot ceilings and sits on 2 acres.
Charles McKee, a 46-year-old plumber, understands the appeal of "The Munsters.''
"It had good, clean humor,'' he said. "My mother's church thought it was satanic. I told them to go home and watch it. Those people are as far from satanic as could be.''
On Sunday, the actor who played Eddie flew in from Las Vegas at the McKees' invitation to inspect the house. "I think it's going to be fabulous,'' said Butch Patrick, 48, who plans to host a Halloween party there next fall.I like George Clooney, but I'm not turning my apartment into an ER. At least this house doesn't look THAT bad. But what about the people who made the Simpsons home? Or the guy who painted his house Zebra striped? It is their property, yet the look brings down the value of a whole neighborhood. Do you think that people should be able to do whatever they want to their house, without a committee approving it?
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Now she and her husband, Charles, are spending $250,000 to build a 5,800-square-foot, Victorian-style house to replicate the creepy home shown on the program.
From video clips and photos acquired from "Munsters'' collectors around the country, the McKees are painstakingly re-creating the home inhabited on TV by Herman, wife Lily, Grandpa, cousin Marilyn and young son Eddie.
Sandra McKee, 44, owns copies of all 70 episodes of the sitcom, which is about a family of odd, Gothic characters headed by Herman, a lookalike of Frankenstein's monster.
McKee, a retired insurance agent, has made a "Munsters'' fan out of her husband, who went along with building the two-story, 5,800-square-foot house. The frame home has arched windows, 10-foot ceilings and sits on 2 acres.
Charles McKee, a 46-year-old plumber, understands the appeal of "The Munsters.''
"It had good, clean humor,'' he said. "My mother's church thought it was satanic. I told them to go home and watch it. Those people are as far from satanic as could be.''
On Sunday, the actor who played Eddie flew in from Las Vegas at the McKees' invitation to inspect the house. "I think it's going to be fabulous,'' said Butch Patrick, 48, who plans to host a Halloween party there next fall.I like George Clooney, but I'm not turning my apartment into an ER. At least this house doesn't look THAT bad. But what about the people who made the Simpsons home? Or the guy who painted his house Zebra striped? It is their property, yet the look brings down the value of a whole neighborhood. Do you think that people should be able to do whatever they want to their house, without a committee approving it?
http://www.nochicktrix.com/fun/oth/vb/me/munsters.jpg