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Mountain View
Ah! The Mountain View Cemetary in Oakland,
California is THE most fabulous. Since San Francisco early would not have
a cemetary in the city, the cemetary in Oakland was the place to be
buried. Also buried there are the Chiradelli's (of chocolate fame) and
Paula Short, also known as the Black Daliah (I didn't spell that right did I), a
sensational 40s Los Angeles murder victim. She was buried up here
because of the notariety of her murder. To this day, the cemetary
will not give out the location of her grave (I've tried).
I have
my spot all picked out in the unendowed section overgrown with vines and
eucalyptus trees overlooking the San Francisco Bay -- what a
view.
Lucinda (I love a good cemetary)
Glenn
Graduate Theological Union Archives
Folks,
Well, youse guys are good. I
had two answers to my teaser within an hour; one from Georgia and one from
Minnesota (you know who you are). While under siege by the General
Counsel's staff [see op. cit.] I was reading the Proceedings of the
Forty-sixth Annual Encampment of the Department of California and Nevada-Grand
Army of the Republic: Held at Reno, Nevada June 10, 11, 12, 13,
1913. This remarkably informative work [ the administration of the
Santa Monica Branch of the Soldier's Home was under attack and a
recommendation was forwarded to Congress that the Home be placed under the War
Department in part because the Home refused to have the general mess waiters
pour coffee from pitchers rather than place it in earthen bowls on the tables
where it cooled before the men could drink it, but I digress] presented to me
a photo lithograph of O'Brien with his white mustache Dei sub numine
viget. Hmmmm, where was I ? Oh yeah, as my correspondents pointed
out (as did the picture title) O'Brien was he who first originated "the
present beautiful custom of rising and standing uncovered when the
'Star-Spangled Banner" is being played or sung. According to my Georgia
informant, O'Brien died in 1914 the year after the encampment and is buried in
Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California where Hall of Fame catcher Ernie
Lombardi, architect julia Morgan and author Frank Norris are also
buried. Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine. Dick King,
University of Arizona.