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The last resting spots of some persons which I have personally visited. May they rest in peace.

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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Friday, November 29, 2013

Louis Armstrong






From Flushing Cemetery, Queens, New York. Wiki: "His honorary pallbearers included Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Harry James, Frank Sinatra, Ed Sullivan, Earl Wilson, Alan King, Johnny Carson and David Frost."

Thursday, October 31, 2013

George Gershwin


From Westchester Hills. George Gershwin received his only Academy Award nomination posthumously.

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Jayne Mansfield


Died in a car accident enroute to New Orleans. June 29, 1967. From Hollywood Forever.

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Sunday, September 22, 2013

The Man Behind The Wizard


Frank Morgan (Wuppermann). Two time Oscar nominee (Affairs of Cellini and Tortilla Flat). "He has 2 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for motion pictures at 1708 Vine Street and for radio at 6700 Hollywood Boulevard." (WIKI). From Green-Wood Cemetery,Brooklyn, NY.

Monday, August 5, 2013

John Huston



From Hollywood Forever. Happy 107th birthday. With his mother Rhea.

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Tony Randall


                            From Westchester Hills. Just a modest plaque in the ground near trees on a slope. Found                              this without a map or marker. Used the photo on Find A Grave. Hard to believe he's been gone nine years.

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Tyrone Power


A classy stone. From Hollywood Forever. Died of a heart attack on a film shoot in Spain at the age of 44.

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Carl Switzer



First post in July. Wouldn't have found this without my buddies assistance.
 "In January 1959, he was fatally shot by an acquaintance over a dispute about money." $50.00. He was 32.

Monday, June 24, 2013

Fay Wray

From Hollywood Forever. Had a few issues with their map but at least they embrace celebrity grave searchers.

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Ted Knight

From Forest Lawn (Glendale). His last movie Was Caddyshack. Would have thought he'd have done a couple more. Died at 62 after suffering from cancer for many years. Too young.

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Casey Stengel



Charles and Edna Stengel. From Forest Lawn Memorial (Glendale). Not too far from Michael Jackson and Spencer Tracy. 

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Gregory Peck

Gregory and Veronique Peck
from the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles
Lots of room there. The Pecks must have been supporters.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Errol Flynn

From Forest Lawn Memorial (Glendale).
A simple marker about the middle of the north wall of their Garden of Everlasting Peace.

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Frankie Frisch, The Fordham Flash

"F is for Fordham
And Frankie and Frisch;
I wish he were back
With the Giants, I wish."

(from “Line-Up for Yesterday” by Ogden Nash)

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Grantland Rice

Famed Sportswriter of the 1920s and 30s. From Woodlawn.

"For when the One Great Scorer comes
To mark against your name,
He writes - not that you won or lost -
But how you played the Game."
(from the poem "Alumnus Football")

Grantland Rice is Bill Simmons inspiration for grantland.com

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

For the sons of American Gold Star Mothers


Not a grave. From Memorial Grove in Van Cortlandt Park. Very unassuming, neat section remembering a couple of dozen members of the miltary. The most recent passing of the departed that I observed was recorded in 1950.

Monday, February 25, 2013

Ron Silver




Ron Silver. From Westchester Hills. It's hilly there. Like to come back in better weather. Nice staff. Map..not so much.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

James Baldwin


An interesting dude, Look him up. From Ferncliff. Love the leaves. Very tasteful.

Monday, January 28, 2013

Joe Simon


Joe Simon is the Co-Creator of Captain America. When Marvel started making movie decisions he fought for the Jack Kirby Estate to get equal rights. When someone fights for you after you are deceased, that's powerful.

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

F W Woolworth



Let's go Big to start 2103. F. W. Woolworth's final resting place. From Woodlawn. Taken from about 50 yards away. It's Large.