LL is buried at the Forest Lawn in Glendale. The address is 1712 S. Glendale Avenue, Glendale, CA 91205. The website is: http://www.forestlawn.com/About-Forest-Lawn/Locations-and-Directions-Glendale.asp
It was apparently a posh place to be buried for a person in the 1920's. It's so fancy you hardly know you're in California.
Even the trash cans are hidden in faux tree trunks.
LL is entombed in the Great Mausoleum.
It doesn't get many visitors these days, but they were kind enough to take us around the back and let us in.
Apparently the mausoleum's been called the "New World's Westminster Abbey" by Time magazine: http://www.forestlawn.com/About-Forest-Lawn/Glendale-The-Great-Mausoleum.asp
It's a giant bunker full of the San Gabriel elite.
Funny this came out looking like a shot from Reservoir Dogs... Mr Blonde, Capt Automatic, Capt American Apparel, and Mr White.
At the back door of the mausoleum.
The skylights let in a lot of light, it was pretty hot inside in addition to the eternal mustiness.
The entombed have proof of their Masonic membership so they don't get blackballed in the afterlife.
LL is near one end of a long marble corridor.
This is an excerpt from Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar": Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho' from out our bourn of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
LL's tomb is simple and no fancier than the ones around it. There is a small gate in front of it.
We found a note written by Brad Edmondson tucked into a corner of LL's tomb, so we each decided to write one ourselves.
What to write to LL is a dilemma.
In the end, I opted for gratitude over levity, though we didn't share with each other what we wrote.
After we left our notes, we read from the Gray Book.
John and Josh read.
John and Tim read.
