Laid to Rest in California: A Guide to the Cemeteries and Graves Sites of the Rich and Famous - Softcover

Brooks, Patricia; Brooks, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0762741015 ISBN 13: 9780762741014

Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr, 2006

Synopsis

A scintillating who's who and who's where of California's dearly departed. You'll find movie stars, sports greats, musical geniuses, eccentric personalities -- more than a thousand of the state's rich, famous, and interesting.

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From the Back Cover:

You don't have to be a ghoul to enjoy graveyards. Visiting the final resting places of movie stars and other well-known personalities is as much a celebration of lives fascinatingly (or self-destructively) led as it is an illuminating look into the past.
This wonderfully opinionated book, full of history and amusing anecdotes, introduces you to cemeteries up and down California. Hundreds of evocative profiles give tribute (and in some cases rebukes) to those lying below, including baseball Hall of Famers, authors, presidents, and an entire galaxy of movie stars, from Mary Pickford to Frank Sinatra. From the famous to the infamous, they're all here—yes, even Bugsy Siegel and Mickey Cohen.
Join authors Patricia and Jonathan Brooks as they unearth hundreds of intriguing characters whose legacies live on beyond the grave. You'll find:Detailed obituaries and sepulchral photographsCemetery locations, contacts, and visiting hoursInformation on graveyard tours, walks and special eventsFilm Vault sidebars connecting the stars to their best-known rolesDirections to related homes and museums nearbyLocal restaurant recommendations for those with a lively appetite

About the Author:

Patricia Brooks has written other guidebooks (not all of them funereal), including Where the Bodies Are and Permanently New Yorkers (both Globe Pequot). When not under-taking graveyard tours, she resides peacefully in Connecticut.
Jonathan Brooks, who spent years at an entertainment-based cable TV station digging up information on many of the people he writes about in this book, is a freelance journalist living uncryptically in Los Angeles, where he never misses a deadline.

About this edition

• Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0762741015
• ISBN 13: 9780762741014
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 340