It was kinda strange but of all the graves I've been to in the past couple of days...Marilyn's had the most energy. I'm sure a lot of the energy I was feeling was from the fact that so many people still go there and pay their respects. I don;t know...it's hard to explain.
That is truly the greatest cemetary.
It is like reading a Hollywood history book.
I'd love someone to publish a guide to that place with backstories and details.
That place blows my mind every time. Must visit soon
so cool!!!~ i would love to visit there~ i have never been to cali, but want to very badly~ it is on the list of places to possibly go next year for our vaca & westwood is definitely one of the places i want to visit~ it is fabulous you saw marilyns crypt, but i am just as fascinated & jealous about you getting to see natalie woods, i adore her~
those pictures make me sad. i also get disturbed by some of the talk i have heard about people "banging" marilyn and such. no, i didnt know her, she died way before i was born, but its still so sad how her life played out.
that sounds like alot of fun! so there are alot of stars there huh? gotta check it out sometime. is there anywhere online that has a list of everyone there?
I love goin there, I always thinking to myself...the ledgend of the silver screen, the beautiful angel is just behing this wall....just inches seperate me from the woman in all the videos I have of her being swarmed by paps..singing to the president....and there she lays......My idol...I cant watch a movie without getting teared up..she means so much to me and countless others...tell her hi for me !
Westwood is so awesome..and dirttrack..go to Findagrave.com..look up any particular celeb you might be interested in..there are so many buried at Westwood you're bound to find a couple you want to visit there.
I'm jealous
*sigh*
SO AM I!!! the best grave i get to visit is shoeless joe jacksons grave in greenville. now...who is gonna finanace a trip out there for me??? i wanna go too!!
hey, has anyone ever took a piece of a tombstone or anything?? i seen where people chip off james deans stone alot. wouldnt that freak u out to do that??
I think it's awesome you're able to visit these cemeteries that I've read so much about. How sweet of you to give Baby Henry a moment, what kind of energy did you feel from Marilyn's grave? sucks security drove up, c'mon, give people a break.
This is cool to check out...picks from marilyns funeral.
http://www.lelands.com/bid.aspx?lot=593&auctionid=605
Just cick on the smaller pics to enlarge them. I posted this somewhere else but just in case anyone missed it.
Seeing the coffin Marilyn was buried in really hits you!!!
HOLY FRUITLOOPS BATMAN!! that place is packed with big names!!! that is some sacred land for sure!!! damn ya'll are lucky that get to go!!
http://www.seeing-stars.com/Buried2/PierceBros.shtml
You can do virtual tours of all the cemeteries in LA on this site as well!!!!
GraveyardGurl <~~~~~~~ Jealous!
cool lucky you - i hink we my be going to california next year - i must go
The survival of everyone on board depends on just one thing: finding someone on board who can not only fly this plane, but who didn't have fish for dinner.
Dude...where do you get this stuff....![]()
Wow, thanks for posting this, it's pretty interesting...
I love Marilyn. I heard she was buried in a wig? Am I morbid for being curious about what she may look like now? She was so beautiful in life....
Hey I rem this picWhere's the rest of'em?
Great pictures Danny. I'm assuming that Joe picked out that place for her? If so, I wonder what drew him to that cemetery and that particular spot?
Well, the closest thing I have to a celebrity packed cemetery would be Mount Auburn Cemetery, about a mile from my house, if that. Many local celebrities with graves going back nearly 200 years. One of the first places to be called a cemetery in the US. Also the first to really plan things with landscaping considerations. Truly a beautiful cemetery. I was there in May when my boyfriend's grandmother passed away. I was shocked to find out she was to be buried there, as that's not the easiest cemetery to get into these days (family plot). Anyway, here's a link to the wiki entry, which seems to have an accurate listing of some of the more notable people buried there:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Auburn_Cemetery
These pictures are excellent, I've never seen them before. Thanks for sharing! And Ethel, I'd like to see her too. I'm sure there are a lot of people here who would, which makes us all morbid. But we already knew that, didn't we?
Now Merv Griffin is buried there. My husband & I went the day after the funeral. he is around the corner of the new building close to Eric Douglas (Michael's brother). Also walk into the section where the water fountains are & check out the walls. Brian Keith and his daughter are there along with just a small plague that says something about a guy with a great voice. It's Charlie the Tuna from the commercials. I can't remember his real name. Findagrave is excellent if you type in a name like Don Knotts and click below on Westwood, an entire roster will pop up including Frank Zappa (unmarked) and last time i visited was in August. I've heard the empty spot between the chapel and the water garden will be a temple to Liz Taylor. that she has already purchased the land but not built the building.
[SIZE=2]"Allan Whitey Snyer did her makeup for years and was responsible to do her make up for the last time. A flask of gin was required to help him carry out the promise he had made in jest many years earlier. Marilyn gave him a gold money clip from Tiffany's inscribed with: "Whitey Dear, While I'm still warm, Marilyn." to remind him of his promise. Long time hairdresser to Marilyn, Agnes Flanagan, did her hair. Due to the damage that the autopsy had caused, Agnes had to find a wig similar to the style Marilyn wore in her last movie."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=5]S[/SIZE]ince her hair was in such poor shape, WHITEY SNYDER decided to use the wig that MARILYN wore throughout the film[SIZE=3] THE MISFiTS[/SIZE] for her final appearance. JOAN GREENSON, the daughter of MARILYN'S psychiatrist recalled looking up from the aisle in the chapel right before they closed the casket and seeing , "a shock of blonde hair...." as the lid was closed.
Oops. Here's the link. The info is pretty interesting. http://morbid-curiosity.com/id139.htm
Joe left her flowers twice a week for 20 years...do fans still leave them for her?
They do and I couldn't believe how many people touch and kiss her headstone. There is a bench in front of her headstone from her fans put there years ago and both the stone bench and her headstone are much darker than any other on the wall. People leave pennies and flowers not only in the flower nook but below on the ground. Last I heard, this is the 2nd headstone for her.
Shoeless Joe- I was an extra in '8 Men Out' and got to see D.B. Sweeny as Shoeless Joe.
Christopher George-always a fan of his. Anyone else see the Italian Zombie film he was in?
One of the places I want to see before I die....congrats on getting to experience that
Cool pics danny, I've never seen these before and how in heavens name do you have almost 800 posts??? LOL
Believe it or not I try to make my posts with some sort of useful information. For years I spent lots of time seeing who is dead and how they died and this REALLY fasinates me!!!
I try to add a couple of threads a day on people that have died that we may not know about. Alot of people had no Idea the biker guy "leatherman" from the original "Village People" died.
I also have a ton of old hollywood type books.
I have never really had death hags to really discuss this with. I think its time for a break though...I am running out of useful material. LOL
I actually got lucky and came across those pic's last week. I spent like 20 minutes staring at that casket thinking that Marilyn Monroe was going to be put in it!!!
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[SIZE=4]Hey Danny thanks for posting the pics. I've never seen them befor.[/SIZE]
The curtained crypt opening that the casket gets put into creeps me out! I love these pictures!
I visited Marilyn's grave back on Marilyn's birthday, on June 1st, with some other friends. It was wonderful experience being their. It was a very peaceful moment being their. I actually knelt down and started to pray. I mean just being their was a dream come true, for any Marilyn fan.