Category Archives: American Icon
On This Day 15 December – Johannes Vermeer – Sitting Bull – Fats Waller – Glenn Miller – Walt Disney – Chill Wills – Blake Edwards – Christopher Hitchens – Joan Fontaine
The Final Footprints of Johannes Vermeer – Sitting Bull – Fats Waller – Walt Disney Continue reading →
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Tagged Cemetery, cremains, Cremation, Disney, fats waller, Forest Lawn Memorial Park Glendale, girl with a pearl earring, harlem, History, jazz, Joan Fontaine, johannes vermeer, Kurt Russell, lakota, Marker, Private Estates, Roy Disney, Rudyard Kipling, Sitting Bull, The Jungle Book, tracy chevalier, Walt Disney
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On this day 22 November – Jack London – Lorenz Hart – Shemp Howard – JFK – C. S. Lewis – Aldous Huxley – Mae West – Scatman Crothers – Anthony Burgess – Terence Donovan – Michael Hutchence
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Tagged aldous huxley, Arlington National Cemetery, c s lewis, Camelot, Caroline Kennedy, Eternal Flame, Gunnersbury Cemetery, Jacqueline Bouvier, Jacqueline Kennedy, JFK, JFK Jr., John B Connally, John F Kennedy, Kennedy Assassination, Nellie Connally, President of the U.S., riptff, terence donovan, tff, the final footprint, U.S. Navy
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On this day 30 September death of James Dean – Mary Ford – Simone Signoret – Jessye Norman
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Tagged Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Buried, Cemetery, Edna Ferber, Elizabeth Taylor, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Giant, Ground Burial, History, Inscription, James Dean, Jessye Norman, Jett Rink, Marker, Mary ford, Monument, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, riptff, Rock Hudson, sculpture, simone signoret, tff, the final footprint, The Little Prince, Westover memorial park
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On this day 22 September death of Anne Lister – Marion Davies – Irving Berlin – Dorothy Lamour – George C. Scott – Marcel Marceau – Eddie Fisher – Yogi Berra
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Tagged Anne Lister, Buried, Cemetery, cypress lawn memorial park, dorothy lamour, eddie fisher, Ground Burial, History, hollywood hills cemetery, Inscription, Irving Berlin, marcel marceau, Marker, Woodlawn Cemetery, yogi berra
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On this day 20 August death of Jules Laforgue – Joe Rosenthal – Phyllis Diller – Elmore Leonard – Jerry Lewis – Tom T. Hall
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Posted in American Icon, Day in History, Film Footprints, Literary Footprints, Military Footprints
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Tagged battle of iwo jima, cimetiere debagneux, Clint Eastwood, cremains, Cremation, Elmore Leonard, flags of our fathers, ira hayes, Jerry Lewis, joe rosenthal, jules laforgue, marine corps war memorial, phyllis diller, raising the flag on iwo jima, riptff, san francisco bay area, tff, the final footpirnt, Tom T. Hall
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On this day 16 August death of Ben Jonson – Elvis – Robert Johnson – Babe Ruth – Margaret Mitchell – Bela Lugosi – Amanda Blake – Aretha Franklin – Peter Fonda
The Final Footprints of Elvis Presley – Robert Johnson – Babe Ruth – Margaret Mitchell – Bela Lugosi Continue reading →
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Tagged Amanda blake, Babe Ruth, bela lugosi, ben jonson, blues, Bram Stoker, bronze on granite, Buried, Cemetery, club 27, colonel tom parker, Crypts, Dracula, Elvis Presley, Entomb, forever 27 club, full ledger, Gone with the wind, graceland, Ground Burial, History, Holy Cross Cemetery, Inscription, little zion church, Margaret Mitchell, Marker, memphis, Monument Park, mount zion missionary baptist church, New York Yankees, Oakland Cemetery, peter fonda, riptff, robert johnson, tff, the bambino, the final footprint, the sultan of swat, Westminster Abbey, yankee stadium
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On this day 5 August deaths of Carmen Miranda – Richard Burton – Alec Guinness – Toni Morrison
The Final Footprints of – Carmen Miranda – Richard Burton – Alec Guinness – Toni Morrison Continue reading →
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Tagged alec guinness, carmen miranda, Cemetery, Crypts, Elizabeth Taylor, History, Richard Burton, riptff, São João Batista Cemetery, tff, the final footprint, toni morrison, vieux cemetery, Westwood Memorial Park
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On this day 27 July deaths of Gertrude Stein – William Wyler – Bob Hope – Sam Shepard
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Tagged Academy Awards, alice b toklas, Bing Crosby, bob hope, broadway, Cemetery, Crypts, dorothy lamour, Entomb, forest lawn glendale, Gertrude Stein, Paris, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Private Estates, riptff, road movies, sam shepard, san fernando mission cemetery, tff, thanks for the memory, the final footprint, uso, vaudeville, William Wyler
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On this day 17 June death of Mumtaz Mahal – Kate Smith – Cyd Charisse – Rodney King – Gloria Vanderbilt
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Tagged Cemetery, Crypts, cyd charisse, Entomb, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Gloria vanderbilt, god bless america, Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, History, Irving Berlin, kate smith, Mumtaz mahal, New York Yankees, Private Mausoleum, rip, riptff, rodney king, saint agnes cemetery, Taj Mahal, tff, the final footprint, Vanderbilt Family Cemetery
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On this day 11 June death of John Wayne – Karen Ann Quinlan – DeForest Kelley – Ruby Dee – Françoise Hardy
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Tagged bones, Buried, Cemetery, Dean Martin, DeForest Kelley, Dennis Hopper, Dignity Memorial, epitaph, Ferncliff Cemetery, flat bronze marker, Ground Burial, hes dead jim, History, Howard Hawks, Inscription, John Ford, John Wayne, Karen ann Quinlan, leonard mccoy, Marker, Maureen O'Hara, Pacific View Memorial Park, pilgrim, Rooster Cogburn, ruby dee, Star Trek, That'll be the Day, The Searchers, True Grit, Vera Miles
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