In 1968 Janny de Vries, a showman from Lochem, was one of the first owners of a Hully Gully. He had it built on the basis of drawings he had cunningly copied in a hotel room in Hamburg. The Hully Gully created a furore at the Tilburg fair. At the end of the 1960s there were a lot of Hully Gully-like attractions, but Janny’s remained the most popular. In 1968 De Vries obtained the absolute top location at the Tilburg fair, smack in front of Hotel l’Industrie. He paid 2500 euros for it. In 1992 Janny de Vries told an interviewer: “We were in Tilburg. I must have been 25. The fair was closed. We used to work until one o’clock. After work I went for a drink in De Korenbeurs, the café close to my caravan. All the dignitaries of Tilburg were there. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of beers, and we sang. After an hour or so I invited them into my Hully Gully. I started the engine, they got in and had a good time. The neighbours called the police. They thought hooligans had invaded my Hully Gully. The police arrived quickly, with sirens and flashing lights on. But at that time we were already back in De Korenbeurs, having another beer….”