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[maddilives4him]

Has anyone ever noticed that above the entry door of grandfathers mansion there is a window curtain that opens and closes with grandfather behind it? I didn't notice it until 2 or 3 trips ago.

[pintrader]

Yes I have noticed it.  I think this is probably my favorite thing about Grandfather's Mansion.  If you visit at Christmas time he is wearing a santa hat.

[Junior]

Grandfather has been up there spying on visitors since at least the early 1970's. I find that pretty funny. I don't know if they still play the music or not, but there used to be a music box in the front entry area on the right as soon as you walk in the door that played "be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!" Little touches like that really add to the overall experience of what could have just been a typical run of the mill "gravity house." Those special touches are why SDC is special!

[maddilives4him]

Since the 1970's? Man, I need to pay more attention to these things! . That music box that your talking about is still at the entry. I still wonder why it got put in Grandfathers Mansion but it really is a good touch.

[betamike]

Yep, Grandfather has been keeping tabs on everyone since I was in a stroller.   Which made it more frightening for me to want to go inside when I was younger...there was this guy spying on us!   The warped sounding music box and that little parlor is one of my favorite places at SDC.  My sister used to always tug at me to "hurry up and come on!" but I would always stop and let others go past me and just soak up the ambiance for a while.

The fact that the parlor has been pretty much un-changed since i was a kid is pretty impressive.  I would dare say, one of the last hold-outs like that...even the rest of the Mansion has undergone some improvements here and there.

[maddilives4him]

Your right. The parlor has never changed. It really has made me upset to see some things that have been apart of SDC for a long time change. the green trams and Tom and Hucks fort are both examples. I'll really miss them

[How-doFolks]

Gosh, now i gotta take a look when we'r down there the weekend of July 10 & 11. I aint never noticed G'pa.

[Coaster]

Wow. In the 1,500,000 times (give or take a few), I've been in Grandfather's Mansion I've never noticed this!

[maddilives4him]

Well like I said, I didn't notice it until 2 or 3 trips ago. I don't know how I've missed it in all the trillions of times I've gone to SDC.

[Twinsmom98]

I don't know how many times I have gone into Grandfather's Mansion and I have not noticed that either.  I will have to pay attention now.

[pintrader]

Wow!  I never realized this many people had not seen grandfather in the window.  This is like saying you mean sdc has a cave.  Well that might be an extreme  .

Actually everytime I go I see something different too!

[betamike]

I think there was a period of time when Grandfather wasn't "peeping"...must have been when he was taking a shower up in that attic thing.

[Junior]

I think grandpa had just "broken down" and it took a while to get him fixed. He used to take a shower downstairs in the room with the slanted floor. You could see his sillouette against the shower curtain as he scrubbed himself with a big brush. I seem to remember he sang in the shower and shouted comments to those walking by, too! BY THE WAY...duz anybody remember all the "family pictures" that hung in frames on the lower floor as you entered the slanting floor room? They were old 100 year old photos with funny comments under them in a script handwriting. They were replaced with some funhouse mirrors that were in there last time I walked through a few years ago...I gotta admit, I like the mirrors, but I sure wish they would have hung the old photos on another wall because they were fun to look at. Oh, and to they still have the portrait of the woman whose eyes moved back and forth? That was cool, too!

[Coaster]

^The woman with the moving eyes is still there. And when did they put the mirrors in? Because as long as I can remember, the mirrors have always been there.

[History Buff]

No, the mirrors are a later addition.  I don't like them - and they don't reflect well anyway. 

Grandfather used to take a shower at the top of the ladder in the pool table room (when you could climb the ladder to look) - and a different upside down room was where he takes a shower now.  It seems there used to be a lady in one of the showers.  Correct me if I'm wrong on any of this.