2 Zoom Tujunga's Boot Hill

Prop Wash · Sep 3, 2021

Interesting place - I don't think I've seen razor wire around a cemetery. Sad to see it's not very well taken care of.
Good flying.

Palerider · Sep 3, 2021

Prop Wash said:
Interesting place - I don't think I've seen razor wire around a cemetery. Sad to see it's not very well taken care of.
Good flying.

This cemetery has been closed for a long time. Here is the bio

Five minutes from my home is small cemetery. I've driven by this cemetery hundreds of times. I always wondered what it looks like inside. So today, I found out. The cemetery was established by Marshall Valentine Hartranft, who also founded the utopian community of Tujunga, the cemetery reflects the early history of its community and holds the remains of many early Tujunga residents. The site is located on hilly terrain, affording a panoramic view of the San Fernando Valley, and is home to several distinctive types of trees.

On a more spooky note... On February 10, 1978, after days of torrential rains, a massive landslide occurred in the San Gabriel Mountains foothills above Tujunga. The result was the unearthing of a large section of the cemetery and corpses being strewn throughout the area. The rain had been pouring into holes made by gophers and saturated the earth. When the slope gave way, rotted caskets broke open, and their contents were carried away. According to Thomas Noguchi's book Coroner, some 100 bodies were sent plunging into homes, businesses, and city streets. He even states that one such body was wedged into the entrance of a supermarket. The resulting task of trying to identify the remains and rebury them under their correct markers is documented in the book. When they arrived, bodies were everywhere. Some, he states, were "grotesquely standing upright". The City of Los Angeles repaired the grounds, but heavy rain unearthed more corpses in 1980.

Prop Wash · Sep 3, 2021

Palerider said:
This cemetery has been closed for a long time. Here is the bio

Five minutes from my home is small cemetery. I've driven by this cemetery hundreds of times. I always wondered what it looks like inside. So today, I found out. The cemetery was established by Marshall Valentine Hartranft, who also founded the utopian community of Tujunga, the cemetery reflects the early history of its community and holds the remains of many early Tujunga residents. The site is located on hilly terrain, affording a panoramic view of the San Fernando Valley, and is home to several distinctive types of trees.

On a more spooky note... On February 10, 1978, after days of torrential rains, a massive landslide occurred in the San Gabriel Mountains foothills above Tujunga. The result was the unearthing of a large section of the cemetery and corpses being strewn throughout the area. The rain had been pouring into holes made by gophers and saturated the earth. When the slope gave way, rotted caskets broke open, and their contents were carried away. According to Thomas Noguchi's book Coroner, some 100 bodies were sent plunging into homes, businesses, and city streets. He even states that one such body was wedged into the entrance of a supermarket. The resulting task of trying to identify the remains and rebury them under their correct markers is documented in the book. When they arrived, bodies were everywhere. Some, he states, were "grotesquely standing upright". The City of Los Angeles repaired the grounds, but heavy rain unearthed more corpses in 1980.

?? Yeah -- Ummm - Not sure I'd want to see all the early citizens 'hanging out' in their old neighborhood. ??

Lets Fly · Sep 4, 2021

Palerider said:
This cemetery has been closed for a long time. Here is the bio

Five minutes from my home is small cemetery. I've driven by this cemetery hundreds of times. I always wondered what it looks like inside. So today, I found out. The cemetery was established by Marshall Valentine Hartranft, who also founded the utopian community of Tujunga, the cemetery reflects the early history of its community and holds the remains of many early Tujunga residents. The site is located on hilly terrain, affording a panoramic view of the San Fernando Valley, and is home to several distinctive types of trees.

On a more spooky note... On February 10, 1978, after days of torrential rains, a massive landslide occurred in the San Gabriel Mountains foothills above Tujunga. The result was the unearthing of a large section of the cemetery and corpses being strewn throughout the area. The rain had been pouring into holes made by gophers and saturated the earth. When the slope gave way, rotted caskets broke open, and their contents were carried away. According to Thomas Noguchi's book Coroner, some 100 bodies were sent plunging into homes, businesses, and city streets. He even states that one such body was wedged into the entrance of a supermarket. The resulting task of trying to identify the remains and rebury them under their correct markers is documented in the book. When they arrived, bodies were everywhere. Some, he states, were "grotesquely standing upright". The City of Los Angeles repaired the grounds, but heavy rain unearthed more corpses in 1980.

And then came the movie Poltergeist 1982.