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1. GLEN_041030_019.JPG: The Builder's Creed
2. GLEN_041030_058.JPG: Signing the Declaration of Independence mosaic
3. GLEN_041030_077.JPG: In front of George is a section of Liberty Chain. It stretched across the Hudson River in 1776 to prevent the passage of British ships, who were trying to cut the colonies in two. It was hauled from Vermont to the Hudson River near Fort Clinton (which is where West Point is, I think), where the shorts are 1800 feet across.
4. GLEN_041030_105.JPG: Spencer Tracy
5. GLEN_041030_107.JPG: Errol Flynn is buried, appropriately enough, by the statue of a half-naked woman.
6. GLEN_041030_121.JPG: Walt Disney. The statue is a mermaid, as in the Little Mermaid. There is an urban legend that Uncle Walt is cryogenically frozen somewhere. It's false. Check out http://www.snopes.com/disney/info/wd-ice.htm
7. GLEN_041030_144.JPG: Casey Stengel
8. GLEN_041030_210.JPG: Yep. A reproduction of Michelangelo's David.
9. GLEN_041030_227.JPG: The Story of the Mystery of Life. As one person interprets it. Around the mystic stream of life, we see grouped eighteen persons typifying many walks and stations in life. First we see: (1) A boy who is astonished at the miracle that has happened in his hand -- one moment, an unbroken egg; the next moment, a chick teeming with life. "Why?" he asks. How does it happen? What is the answer to this mystery of life?" He questions (2) His ages grandmother, who, he reasons, knows everything. But we see her resigned in the face of the inexplicable. Then we see (3) and (4) The lovers, who believe they have found the answer to the mystery in their first kiss. (5) Sweet girl graduate, lost in dreams, with no place as in her thoughts for a serious questioning of life's destiny. (6) The scientist, troubled because all his learnings, all his searchings, have not solved the mystery. (7) and (8) The mother, who finds the answer in the babe at her breast. (9) (10) (11) (12) and (13) The happy family group, not greatly perturbed by the mystery, although even they seem to ask "Why do the doves mate?" (14) The learned philosopher, scratching his puzzled head in vain. (15) and (16) The monk and the nun, comforted and secure, confident that they have found the answer in their religion, (17) The atheist, the fool, who grinningly cares not at all, while (18) The stoic sits in silent awe and contemplation of that which he believes he knows but cannon explain or understand. Gentle reader, what is your interpretation? Do you see yourself in one of the characters here portrayed? Forest Lawn has found the answer to the mystery of life. Have you found it? Or are you still in anxious doubt?
10. GLEN_041030_290.JPG: Jimmy Stewart
11. GLEN_041030_298.JPG: They've done 60,000 weddings at this cemetery. Among them, Ronald Reagan married his first wife here.
12. GLEN_041030_364.JPG: Jean Hersholt was the Danish-born actor and humanitarian who translated Hans Christian Andersen's stories.
13. GLEN_041030_374.JPG: Aimee Semple McPherson. Sister Aimee was a flamboyant Pentecostal preacher. Scandal hit in 1923 when she disappeared from a public beach and was feared dead. She turned up later, claiming to have been kidnapped, but was apparently on vacation with a lover.
14. GLEN_041030_390.JPG: Joe E. Brown.
15. GLEN_041030_417.JPG: L Frank Baum, the author of the "Wizard of Oz" stories
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Wikipedia Description: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale
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Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a privately-owned cemetery in Glendale, Los Angeles, in the United States. It is the original location of Forest Lawn, a chain of cemeteries in Southern California (termed "memorial parks" by the company). The land was formerly part of Providencia Ranch.

History:

Forest Lawn was founded in 1906 as a not-for-profit cemetery by a group of businessmen from San Francisco. Dr. Hubert Eaton and C. B. Sims entered into a sales contract with the cemetery in 1912. Eaton took over the management of the cemetery in 1917 and is credited as being the "Founder" of Forest Lawn for his innovations of establishing the "memorial park plan" (eliminating upright grave markers) and being the first to open a funeral home on dedicated cemetery grounds. Eaton was a firm believer in a joyous life after death. He was convinced that most cemeteries were "unsightly, depressing stoneyards" and pledged to create one that would reflect his optimistic, Christian beliefs, "as unlike other cemeteries as sunshine is unlike darkness." He envisioned Forest Lawn to be "a great park devoid of misshapen monuments and other signs of earthly death, but filled with towering trees, sweeping lawns, splashing fountains, beautiful statuary, and ... memorial architecture" A number of plaques which state Eaton's intentions are signed "The Builder."

Most of its burial sections have evocative names, including Eventide, Babyland (for infants, shaped like a heart), Graceland, Inspiration Slope, Slumberland (for children and adolescents), Sweet Memories, Vesperland, Borderland (on the edge of the cemetery), and Dawn of Tomorrow. Packages for burial cover a wide spectrum of prices.

Statuary and art:

The six Forest Lawn cemeteries contain about 1,500 statues, about 10% of which are reproductions of famous works of art, in various locations. Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper has been recreated in sta ...More...
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