X-Message-Number: 21371 From: "Trygve Bauge" <> Subject: Frozen Grandpa/Frozen dead Guy days Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 01:45:01 +0100 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C2E6A6.AA98DEA0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0006_01C2E6A6.AAA20660" ------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C2E6A6.AAA20660 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Jon Hatch The 'Boulder Sucks' team in the coffin race at Nederland's Frozen Dead Guys Days festival falls just after beginning the race. more photos PRINT THIS STORY | E-MAIL THIS STORY Frozen Grandpa's memory is still alive in Nederland Town celebration draws thousands By Sandra Fish, Camera Staff Writer March 9, 2003 NEDERLAND - Rarely does a parade of hearses signal celebration. But at Nederland's Frozen Dead Guy Days, pallbearers and hearses are all part of the draw. Visitors from Arizona, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Colorado poured into town Saturday for the second winter celebration centered around the town's most famous resident - the late Bredo Morstoel. Once the source of much hand-wringing, "Frozen Grandpa" is now embraced (well, figuratively at least) in a marketing marvel. The three-day celebration is drawing thousands of people to the mountain town west of Boulder, including a CBS news crew. Oregon's Rogue Brewery is serving up Dead Guy Ale and the film "Grandpa's Still in the Tuff Shed" is being shown daily. Townsfolk are competing to resemble the frozen dead guy, and visitors are anteing up $25 each for tours of the Tuff Shed where Morstoel rests on dry ice. Grandpa Bredo died in 1989, and his grandson had him cyrogenically frozen. Eventually, Morstoel ended up in Nederland, and his daughter and grandson were deported back to Norway. Residents were surprised to learn the frozen body was still housed in their mountain town. But now, they're capitalizing on the corpse that's made their hamlet famous worldwide. Hats and T-shirts promoting Frozen Dead Guy Days sold for $16. At Arf Gallery, a combo doggie bakery and art store, Lisa Leitner sold Frozen Dog Guy shirts featuring her pooch, Boo Radley. For the parade, Boo dressed in shimmering blue lame to match his owner's electric blue wig. But when it came to the coffin races, Leitner thought too much of her pet to subject him to the trauma of being lugged around a race course. Instead, she wrote to the Amazing Live Sea Monkeys company about possible aquatic participation, since there's a requirement that a living being be in the coffin. "The president of the company called me and say they would like to sponsor our coffin," Leitner said. So for the race, the coffin featured 75 pounds of water (the minimum load for the race) with a bunch of sea monkeys. "Our theme is 'Frozen Atlantis,'" Leitner said. "We didn't want to injure any of our friends, and we didn't want to traumatize our dogs." After the race, Leitner planned to sponsor an adopt-a-sea-monkey contest to give them away. Meanwhile, Tuff Sheds - the official home of Grandpa - were everywhere, from the finish line of the coffin race to the official headquarters, stocked with goods for sale. "It's just great publicity for the whole area," said Rob Linde, marketing director of Eldora Ski Resort, which sponsored a snow sculpture competition. "It's international attention." Contact Sandra Fish at (303) 473-1356 or Trygve Bauge, Life-Extension Systems, The Norw. Icebathing club & Trygve's Meta Portal: www.trygve.bauge.com ------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C2E6A6.AAA20660 Content-Type: text/html; [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=21371