March of Dimes Haunted House - Newspaper Ad

Oakland Tribune - October 20, 1978

The March of Dimes Haunted House attraction at "the old jail behind Alameda City Hall" was available to all who dared to enter during the latter half of October, way back in 1978. I would have been all of eleven years old at that time. Old enough, but not brave enough, for sure.

While child me might have been a tad too scared to wander past a torture chamber, a werewolf, a swamp monster, a mad scientist's lab, ghoul's mortuary, or morgue, adult me would be all over this. I do enjoy a good haunt attraction, just as long as it is not too intense or gross, that is...