Funeral Home.photo descriptions.HELP!

[Pittsburgh Pete]

I did one years ago and the oddest thing about it I thought was that it had an apartment that was rented to a young woman who lived by herself.

I don't think I could have lived there by myself. Just a little too freaky on those stormy winter nights.

Most of the funeral homes around here have an apartment--used to be used to house the overnight guy that would motor off to pick up the corpses. Had a secretary several years ago who's hubby was a funeral director--when they were first married they lived above the funeral home. Very common!

 

[PL1957]

Most of the funeral homes around here have an apartment--used to be used to house the overnight guy that would motor off to pick up the corpses. Had a secretary several years ago who's hubby was a funeral director--when they were first married they lived above the funeral home. Very common!

IIRC, it used to be a state law that all bodies needed to be attended 24/7. That's why funeral homes had apartments.

When I was growing up, I had a friend whose family had a funeral home and lived above it. It was really scary playing hide and seek when friends stayed over.

 

[Caligirl]

Night of the Living Appraiser Returns.

Beware the funeral home assignments... late at night, you will buried alive... in research....

 

[TEL2002]

In the very early 60s I worked in a funeral home (part time) during summer class breaks. Great job. Learned a lot.

We called the embalming room the (wait for it) embalming room.

The sales area was called the show room.

We had a couple that lived in an apartment at the back. They took all the night calls (this was long before call forwarding) for ambulance runs, etc.