# The Woodlawn Cemetery Tour
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woodlawn-cemetery-tour/182275
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 16, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woodlawn-cemetery-tour/182275 "2003-06-16T19:10:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woodlawn-cemetery-tour/182275/1 "2003-06-16T19:10:38Z")
OK, I just talked to a Very Nice Lady at Woodlawn, and she said the regularly scheduled tours end this weekend. But! “If you have a group that wants to take a tour, we’ll arrange a special one for you! We have a great Entertainer’s Tour.” She said if we get as few as half-a-dozen people, she’ll be happy to arange to guide us. Woo-hoo!
So, who’s in, and what looks like a good date? I’ll be out of town the weekends of July 19, and August 23 & 30, but I can be there for any other summer weekend. How does, tentatively, Sunday, Aug. 3 or Sunday, Aug. 10 sound?
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woodlawn-cemetery-tour/182275/2 "2003-06-16T19:26:08Z")
My friend Fern says Aug. 10 is good for her (I’m asking non-Dopers, too, I hope that’s OK wit’ youse guys).
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woodlawn-cemetery-tour/182275/3 "2003-06-16T20:24:17Z")
**Ukulele Ike** says he thinks the 10th is good for him, too. Just to whet your appetite, [here](http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/famousSearch.cgi?mode=cemetery&FScemeteryid=66788) is a list of the celebs pushing up daisies at Woodlawn.
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woodlawn-cemetery-tour/182275/4 "2003-06-16T20:34:05Z")
. . . And now **Billdo** says the 10th looks good to him, too.
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### Author:  [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woodlawn-cemetery-tour/182275/5 "2003-06-16T22:39:02Z")
Ooooh, the 10th is the day after my birthday! I can’t say for sure what that weekend will be like for me yet, but I would love to be there… please pencil me in!
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### Author:  [@Marconi\_Schmeese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_Schmeese)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woodlawn-cemetery-tour/182275/6 "2003-06-17T01:26:36Z")
**Eve** , unfortunately I’m only in NYC once a year (every February for business), but I just turn green with envy every time I see one of your graveyard threads. I haven’t had a good cemetary fix in years. I used to live in Connecticut and we had the most fabulous old cemetaries. . . We MUST schedule one for next February that I can book my trip around!
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### Author:  [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woodlawn-cemetery-tour/182275/7 "2003-06-17T03:01:39Z")
Can’t we got to that cemetry by the interborough…sorry jackie robinson parkway? That way we can watch idiots flip over as they take those hairpins at 80 :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woodlawn-cemetery-tour/182275/8 "2003-06-17T12:56:19Z")
Sorry you can’t make this one, **Marconi**. . . **Oxymoron** says he’s in for the 10th (and I promise to call him **StuyGuy** all day, just to make amends).
Now just watch: I’ll call Woodlawn, and they’ll say, “Oh, the _tenth?_ That’s the day we’re closed for grave-mound patting-down!”
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woodlawn-cemetery-tour/182275/9 "2003-06-17T13:20:27Z")
Why can’t any decent, interesting, famous people die and be buried in MIchigan.
You dopers just suck.
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woodlawn-cemetery-tour/182275/10 "2003-06-17T13:37:21Z")
[Michigan](http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?page=state&FSstateid=24), you said?
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2003, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woodlawn-cemetery-tour/182275/11 "2003-06-26T14:27:17Z")
I talked to Susan Olsen, the Nice Tour Lady, and she says she’s fine for **Sunday, Aug. 120, at noon**. It’s five bucks per person, and we’ll meet at the Jerome Avenue Gate, at the end of the #4 subway line.
So, who’s in for sure? She’s going to give us the Entertainer’s Tour, which should be, well, entertaining.
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woodlawn-cemetery-tour/182275/12 "2003-06-26T14:28:34Z")
Um, that’s the 20th of August, not the 120th . . .
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2003, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woodlawn-cemetery-tour/182275/13 "2003-06-26T14:48:39Z")
I mean Sunday. August. **Tenth!!**
There! I think I finally got it right . . .
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### Author:  [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2003, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woodlawn-cemetery-tour/182275/14 "2003-06-26T15:02:30Z")
Ooohhh, [look](http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7945&pt=Geoffrey%20Spencer%20Millet) at this poor little fella who died at the offices of Met Life trying to evade a group of women who were trying to give him a birthday kiss, and he ends up falling and dying on an ink eraser. ☹
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### Author:  [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2003, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woodlawn-cemetery-tour/182275/15 "2003-06-26T15:03:38Z")
He was only 16!
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### Author:  [@NotWithoutRage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotWithoutRage)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2003, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woodlawn-cemetery-tour/182275/16 "2003-06-26T15:07:23Z")
I’m in 🙂
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2003, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woodlawn-cemetery-tour/182275/17 "2003-06-26T15:11:35Z")
Well, so far we have non-Dopers **Michael** , **Fern** , maybe **Brenda and hubby** , maybe **Thea and the Barbie Twins** ; and Dopers **Ike, Billdo, Oxymoron, NotWithoutRage** , maybe **Sunfish**. . .
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### Author:  [@miamouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miamouse)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woodlawn-cemetery-tour/182275/18 "2003-06-26T16:37:11Z")
I live right there, so count me in for this one. I was dying (harhar) to go to the last one, but couldn’t make it. I might bring one buddy along.
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woodlawn-cemetery-tour/182275/19 "2003-06-26T16:39:35Z")
Oh, goodie—the more, the, ummm, “merrier.”
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-woodlawn-cemetery-tour/182275/20 "2003-06-26T17:32:22Z")
How long befor do you need to know that I’m coming? (please do not insert a very lewd joke here) I mean Aug 10 is like asking me what am I doing on July 7th 2017.
I could however tell you what I’m doing on any other day in 2017.
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