Category: Unusual Businesses

Each year more than 23,000 people are killed by drunk drivers in the U.S. Candy Lightner is the founder of MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving). You may recall seeing her story on an NBC-TV docu-drama, “Mothers Against Drunk Driving: The Candy Lightner Story,” broadcast in 1983. Mrs. Lightner started the organization on May 7th, 1980, 4 days after her 13-year-old daughter Cari, died at the hands of a repeat offender drunk driver in Fair Oaks, Calif. Mrs. Lightner’s efforts led to President Reagan appointing a Blue Ribbon Commission on Drunk…

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It is “the best tour in Los Angeles” claims US magazine and LA Weekly. It is “the” tour in Los Angeles. It is Greg Smith’s Grave Line Tours. For $30, Grave Line Tours ushers you around Hollywood for a look at the “death styles of the rich and famous.” The tour lasts 2 and a half hours, and we almost forgot the best part, you get to see the sights in one of two 1969 reconditioned hearses Grave Line Tours has available. We talked with Grave Line Tours owner Greg…

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