It is a well known fact around these parts that I'm a bit of an old house and cemetery nut. Here are a few of the posts where I mention cemeteries, here, here, and here, oh yeah and here, and lest we forget here. Oops, I forgot here.
In fact, it is so well knows that when I was out in California last August Gretchen's first suggestion was to go to the Hollywood cemetery. I fell into her plans with
The reason why this cemetery is so much better kept is probably due to who all is buried there. Hollywood leading ladies and gents. Plus a whole host of others. I
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| Toto |
I have to appreciate any cemetery that memorializes a dog. As a devotee of cemetery art I was impressed by Toto's stone.
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| Papa and Jr. Fairbanks |
Head on over to Gretchen or Ginny's for other Halloween Spinners.
Stay groovy,
M
That would be a great cemetery to wander through. Do I get extra credit for knowing it was the influenza epidemic after The Great War that caused all those 1918/1919 tombstones?
ReplyDeleteDid you add yourself to the linky on my site? It's a new thing. More work for you, but easier for me. Sorry. Won't take you a minute.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, while you're there, you have to read my post - there are THREE of these places I MUST take you to the next time you're in town. The abandoned mental hospital is crying out for you! I kept wishing you were with me. If we go together, I'll be daring enough to actually try to break into the place@
Oh, shoot, Vandy wrote my comment about the influenza epidemic first! My grandma's brother died as a baby during it. I have been known to haunt old cemeteries; we stopped at a great old one in the Smoky Mountains one summer.
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