Is This Your Card?
photo by Caveman Chuck Coker on Flickr
License
Attribution, No Derivative Works
Size and Profile
- Uploaded:
- Apr 01, 2010
- Original:
- 800 × 600
- Original date:
- Jul 04, 2009
If you want to try finding this cenotaph on your own, here are the GPS coordinates:
N 34° 8' 39.26", W 118° 18' 58.63". I've also added this photo to the map.
In case you didn't know, a cenotaph is a monument in memory of a deceased person whose body is buried elsewhere. This is at the Hollywood Hills location of Forest Lawn Memorial Park (cemetery) next to Griffith Park.
Oh yeah, Penn & Teller aren't dead either.
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Wikipedia Article
Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery is part of the Forest Lawn chain of Southern California cemeteries. It is at 6300 Forest Lawn Drive in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California, on the lower north slope at the far east end of the Santa Monica Mountains range that overlooks North Hollywood and Burbank in the San Fernando Valley from its southeast. The Los Angeles River courses from west to east immediately to the north.
Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills is a park dedicated to the preservation of American history, and hosts high-profile events such as an annual Veterans Day ceremony attended by dignitaries and other VIPs. Los Angeles Magazine described it as a "theme-park necropolis", paraphrasing Jessica Mitford, indicating "Forest Lawn’s kitsch was just a sophisticated strategy for lubricating the checkbooks of the grieved."
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