Thunder Roads Colorado Magazine Volume 11 - issue 1 | Page 12

That was the last puzzle piece we needed for this shoot and were good to go. If you have lived in Colorado a long time you have either heard of or have been to Reinke Bros Inc. in Littleton. It is an ‘Open Year Round Costume Shop’ with one of the best Haunted House attractions in the Denver area during the Halloween season. My first thoughts were of setting up in the store, the bike was small enough we could put it in one of the aisles. I heard through the grapevine about the hail damage the roof of the store had suffered last spring and my idea was fading away quickly, the more I listened to what the store was going through in trying to repair the building and save all the treasures that are inside the more my heart sunk for this 35 year resident of the business and all things creepy community member. Fortunately my dear friend Dave of the Dave Frisk band who plays that live back ground boogie music in the store (all of the band in fabulous Halloween costume tradition, while hundreds of screaming guests are being ushered through the delightful scares in the Haunted Mansion) was able to get me in touch with Greg Reinke. By this time, we only had two weeks to get this done before the deadline for print was on my doorstep and it would be too late. But when Greg started telling me about the big party they were going to have (the day before the dead deadline) with the Imagined Wall Dave Weaver 10 Thunder Roads Magazine® Colorado October 2015 www.thunderroadscolorado.com