Archive for the 'Laurel and Hardy' Category
Mildred’s Autograph Book – Part 1
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
When my friend Jimmy and I visited former Our Gang member Mildred Kornman at her home in San Diego on October 4, 2005, one of the wonderful pieces of memorabilia that she shared with us was a little autograph book that she had had many celebrities sign during the 1930’s. 35 celebrities with 35 signatures to be exact. Mildred was the younger sister of silent Our Gang leading lady Mary Kornman and the daughter of still photographer Gene Kornman. So she had good reason to be visiting movies sets and was occasionally employed as an extra. Read the rest of this entry »
Valhalla
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
On Saturday, July 18, 2009, my friend Bob and I made our most extensive visit to the Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood. I am certainly no stranger to this burial ground as I have visited it in 1980, 1988, 1992, 1995, 1997, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 (at which time the photo above was taken). As you may have guessed, these visits to this cemetery where one might find the final resting place of Oliver Hardy, roughly correspond to my visits to Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills where Stan Laurel is buried. Read the rest of this entry »
Holy Cross
Saturday, November 21st, 2009
The Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California, is a very nice Catholic cemetery which houses the final resting place of well over 150 famous Hollywood celebrities. The cemetery, which was founded in 1939, requires that every headstone or marker placed within its borders contains a cross. I had been to the cemetery in the past to check out the grave of Laurel and Hardy co-star Edgar Kennedy, but my visit in the summer of 2009 was by far the most extensive. Read the rest of this entry »
Valley Forge and Westward
Sunday, November 8th, 2009
Everyone familiar with my website knows that I am a sucker for a trip down memory lane. So when the opportunity presented itself to swing by for a visit to the site of the 1986 Valley Forge Sons of the Desert convention, I jumped at it. In fact, the fact that I was traveling with my friend Bob Satterfield was the icing on the cake, because it was here that I first met Bob. So we traveled from our last location in Perkasie, Pennsylvania and at about 9:00pm that night of Thursday, June 17, 2009, we pulled up the the hotel to behold the majesty of the memories of what once was. Read the rest of this entry »