L.A. The Final '"Wrap"

Saturday morning, after traveling 95 miles from our RV resort, we were still in L.A. after arriving at Yorba Linda where the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum are. The L.A. area is sure huge, we were thankful for the ten lane wide expressways. The Library is located on the grounds where the 37th President was born and spent his first nine years.

The Museum was closed for renovation but
all the outdoor exhibits were available.

President Nixon's Birthplace

Army One

President Richard Nixon and his wife, Patricia's, Graves

We stopped at Forest Lawn Memorial Park to view the final resting place of many of Hollywood's stars. This beautiful century old cemetery sits high on a hill. With over 300 acres it contains many works of art and sculpture, a museum, theater and several small chapels. Where else can you see the final resting places of multiple movie stars, visit a replica of Rudyard Kipling's church, watch white swans glide across a lake, see a mosaic of "The Signing of the Declaration of Independence," view the world's largest religious painting in a state-of-the-art theater, and discover replicas of all of Michelangelo's major works in one place?
The "Golden Age" Hollywood stars buried here include some of the biggest names in the history of Hollywood: Jimmy Stewart, Jean Harlow, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Humphrey Bogart, Mary Pickford, Errol Flynn, Spencer Tracy. Others here are:  Walt Disney, Sammy Davis, Jr., Alan Ladd, Ted Knight, Nat King Cole, Ed Wynn, Chico Marx, Robert Cummings, Casey Stengel, and Jean Hersholt, plus authors Louis L'Amour, Theodore Dreiser and L. Frank Baum.  

The Mystery of Life Sculpture

 This modern theatre presents hourly exhibitions of the
colossal painting called "The Crucifixion."
In fact, the Hall was built expressly to house and
display this work of art. The world's largest religious
painting, "The Crucifixion" measures
195 feet long and 45 feet high.

The Great Mausoleum holds the crypts of
Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor,
Red Skelton, Clark Gable and
W.C. Fields to name only a few.