Took a day off to get some stuff done. Going to squeeze in a trip to the Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.
Here's a photo I found. I had no idea this massive thing was nearby. I'm the city's worst resident.
UPDATE: We never made it. Thanks to stupid Google Maps and the weird streets of Philadelphia. We saw it, but couldn't get to it. It was like a bad movie's nightmare scene, so we gave up.
More photos here.
And the cemetery's site.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Field Trip
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cemetery,
tombstones
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You have to go there! We don't get any cool cemeteries like this in California. :(
Ugh. we never made it there.
Actually got lost thanks to google maps and sucky Philly.
Please, please try again! Ms. Bean MUST take photos of this lovely place!
gps!
Yeah, I hope you can get there. That would be quite an inspiration, but I'm guessing the Philly area and Buck's County must have some amazing cemeteries.
Wow!! That's enormous. I could spend all day there. It's a bummer you got lost. Everytime I go upstate NY I try to visit some old time cemeteries. Last time was in March and took some Iphone/Hipstamatic shots....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/noahfentz/sets/72157626474617778/with/5609146241/
Don't know where you are in CA, Vintage Seance, but Los Angeles has the amazingly beautiful/eerie Calvary Cemetery in East L.A., established in 1896. Google Images will show you what I mean.
All the CA Mission cemeteries are crazy cool too, especially the one next to the Santa Barbara Mission.
Yeah...gps...I'm a technology holdout.
We're definitely going back.
My friends and I actually rode our bikes through Laurel Hill one late afternoon--and we ended up getting LOCKED IN.
We had to ride around until we found a low-point in the gate, and after lifting our bikes over, we had to climb out onto the street.
I really hope people driving by though bike-riding zombies were escaping.
Wow. I'm gonna have to make a trip to Philly sometime.Lancaster doesn't have ones like that,unless I'm just not looking hard enough.
Laurel Hill looks amazingly eerie in every pic I pulled up online- you'll get there to explore someday, Rot, but meanwhile there are a ton of photos of it online.
For Vintage Seance- I live in Cali too- we have the coolest thing of all up in the Bay area, Colma CA, a whole town that was founded in 1924 to be a necropolis! Check out this article:
Colma, Calif., Is a Town of 2.2 Square Miles, Most of It 6 Feet Deep
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/09/us/09cemetery.html
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