Anyone up for a little Celebrity Gravehunting?

[Miss 1940's]

So I know this is odd, But i feel like I am paying my respects to these actors and actress that have mad me happy when I was Blue!
not to mention some of these stars are not even remembered! So I feel as though its my Duty to visit them.

 

[Miss 1940's]

 

[Miss 1940's]

 

[Miss 1940's]

and

there is more to come Folks!
I have been to scads of Gravesites!
this is only a peep!

 

[KY Gentleman]

Keep 'em coming! I too enjoy wandering cemeteries- you never know who you might meet.

Bill Monroe "Father of Bluegrass Music"

Inspiration for the Allman Brothers song "Little Martha"

Inspiration for the Allman Brothers song "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed"

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

Dang, Forest Lawn Glendale is almost literally across the street from where I work at Glendale Studios, and I've never been there.

I've heard that most of the mausoleums were off limits to the general public, but it looks like you got in.

Great pictures!

 

[freebird]

The only celebrity grave I've been to, is Will Rogers', which is at his Museum in nearby Claremore.

 

[Miss 1940's]

cause I am a spy of coures
but I shant be showing my face there ever again, for this time I shall be taken off in a paddy wagon

 

[Miss 1940's]

The only celebrity grave I've been to, is Will Rogers', which is at his Museum in nearby Claremore.

awwww will rogers I love Will rogers

 

[SamMarlowPI]

i would've liked to visit steve mcqueen but he was cremated...maybe billie holiday...wherever hers is...

 

[freebird]

I'm supposed to go over to visit some friends in the next couple of weeks. I'll take along a camera and make it a point to take a few pics.

 

[JohnnyGringo]

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He said he'd return, and he did.

 

[SamMarlowPI]

DiamondBack would dig that...

 

[Mojito]

A great idea, Miss 1940s. I was particularly intrigued by Aimee Semple McPherson's grave...now there was a Jazz Age scandal! (Although I understand she still has a good many followers).

I have quite a few of them somewhere - many maritime rather than entertainment related. One favourite is a shot of what is allegedly Dick Turpin's grave in York. And many, many of Michael Collins' grave (I visit every time I'm in Dublin) and other Glasnevin graves. It's like a who's who of Irish history...everyone from Maude Gonne to Brendan Behan. Some of the 1916 Rising leaders, Roger Casement (relocated there in 1965), Daniel O'Connel,l, Charles Stuart Parnell, Gerald Manley Hopkins, O'Donovan Rossa...

 

[KY Gentleman]

Colonel Sanders

 

[Real Swell Gal]

i would've liked to visit steve mcqueen but he was cremated...maybe billie holiday...wherever hers is...

She's buried at Saint Raymonds. Bronx, NY.

I have this book called Stairway To Heaven The Final Resting Places of Rock Legends.
It's pretty cool. But then thano has always been an interest of mine.
I love cemeteries. The only famous people we have here though are The Wright Brothers and people like that.Annie Oakley and Agnes Moorhead from Bewitched!

I do have loads and loads of really cool gravesites though.

 

[SamMarlowPI]

She's buried at Saint Raymonds. Bronx, NY.

alright!

 

[Real Swell Gal]

Here is one of my albums. it's of Woodland Cemetery in Dayton Ohio.
Woodland Cemetery is one of the nation’s five oldest rural/garden cemeteries and a unique cultural, botanical and educational resource in the heart of Dayton, Ohio.

Over 3,000 trees and 165 specimens of native Midwestern woody plants grace the Arboretum’s 200 verdant acres of rolling hills. Many of the trees are more than a century old and 9 have been designated "Ohio Champions" by the Ohio Forestry Association.

There is a signed Tiffany window in the old chapel but I didn't go in that day because they use it as an office now and they were busy that day.
I didn't want to be disrespectful over a photo.



I hope you can see this. When I switched over from yahoo to Photobucket some of the pictures were out of sequence. Don't know why and I haven't had a chance to fix it.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v239/Daytripperyeah/Woodland Cemetery/?albumview=slideshow

 

[Tomasso]

Here are a few notable headstones from my hometown neighborhood cemetery.

Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, architect.

If you're familiar with his work, the gravestone is so Him. Less is more

Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion of the world.

Alan Pinkerton, detective. (on left in photo)

George Pullman, of railroad sleeping car fame.

A note about Pullman's grave:
His coffin is covered with tar paper and asphalt, sunk in a concrete block and covered with railroad ties and recovered with more concrete. The family thought it was necessary to protect the body from angry railroad workers.

 

[John in Covina]

That was pretty neat. Does't one of the local cemetaries have some sort of film night during the summer?