Judy Garland's New Grave and Surf Music King Dick Dale - Hollywood - Scott Michaels Dearly Departed

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Dick Dale's Grave - King of Surf Music & Judy Garland's New Grave! - Scott Michaels Dearly Departed
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[@mikea8293]

Great job Scott! it's great that she is in a place where her fans can pay tribute! What a huge talent that lady was! RIP

[@jaguiar45]

Those glass enclosed "tombs" are a freaking great idea. Ashes are in site and not hidden behind marble wall.

[@santinabellydance]

Yes, they've been around for a long time. I like it, because the family can personalize it with pictures and other items.

[@emmabauer1906]

And really, how cute is Dick Dale's tomb? Cute display. Love this new idea.

[@dan30308]

The niches are full of tacky kitsch.

[@reasonrestored9116]

Jay Andrew I don’t get why you need to see the ashes?,

[@jaguiar45]

@@reasonrestored9116 Isn't it because of the art on the urn and the pictures left inside? I just think that it's better than a marble wall.

[@jenniferlee7167]

I loved Judy Garland since I was a child and to see her buried in such an accessible place is wonderful. I hope to visit some day.

[@AnnMargretFan]

Thanks for sharing Scott. I appreciate the coverage of Judy Garland, and like that her final resting place is available for everyone to visit. I never understood why the families of such icons as Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Humphrey Bogart, etc block the public from viewing their burial sites via fences, locked doors, ropes, etc. The public made them stars, and celebrated individuals, yet can't visit them without bribing guards, or breaking the rules and hopping fences to pay their respects.

[@freakshowfilmfestival3591]

Because not everyone is respectful. It looks like there were chips taken out of the stone.

[@missnperfection9830]

To add on what Freakshow said many celebrities had their graves robbed,desecrated,destroyed..even look at Marilyn Monroe's and now Hugh Hefner it's so discolored from the constant lipstick kisses both receive on a daily basis! Ronnie Van Zant and Steve Gaines sites were broken into to see if their were any valuables..along with many,many more!

[@lauriealexander5857]

I smile when I see you post. Thank you from an essential employee with no rest. ❤❤❤❤❤

[@juanrules]

Thank you for visiting Dick Dale! I recently did as well. We spoke about him on a rock n roll tour last year, he was a huge hero of mine.

[@jeffbehrens5245]

During a quick glance around the pavilion, you briefly see the crypt of Devon Page "Ki-Ki" McCleary, a jewelry designer of note who had some of her product at Barney's and other such stores. The other crypt is of Evelyn Ruth Sax, whom all I could find was that she was 92 when she died. He epitaph reads "I love you and I always will" and "God wanted me now, he set me free."

[@DearlyDepartedTours]

Interesting! Thank you for letting me know

[@saintpauligirl8269]

Love this video! About 20 years ago, I visited Judy’s grave when it was at Ferncliff in Hartsdale, New York. Very cool mausoleum. Judy’s “neighbors” at Ferncliff included Ed Sullivan, Basil Rathbone, and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Steele (aka Joan Crawford and her last husband).

[@douggoding8431]

The only musician named Dick Dale that I was familiar with sang on Lawrence Welk. I'm thinking, "he did surf music?" It is nice to learn new things.

[@psychcorp4449]

Thank you for providing a comprehensive view of the Judy Garland Pavilion. I did not know non-family members can also be interred there. I just watched your documentary "6 Degrees of Helter Skelter" (again) and I'm sure I will watch it again. It is a great documentary. Thank you for all of your fantastic work. It is greatly appreciated. Stay safe and be well.

[@bobrand3895]

I have loved Judy Garland since as a kid seeing the Wizard of Oz. Judy always said her fans were her greatest love and it is so appropriate that her resting place is so easily accessible to them

[@robertblakely8026]

I found the tour of this cemetery so amazing. Such a beautiful place with so many that have passed on. So much to see there.

[@GraveTime]

SCOTT! Huge fan of everything you do. Please do more videos like this.

[@ghostcityshelton9378]

Very nicely done video. I only got to see Judy perform live once. Sitting on the outside seat Judy came to the stage going down the aisle and I was like two feet from her. I'd wished my mother had been sitting where I was because she had a big collection of the Wizard of oz and we all thought she was a fantastic person. Very interresting how folks choose to be remembered. Thank you for the tour. 👻🤘

[@davidww80]

Wow she was in her 1st grave about the same amount of time she was alive.

[@hcombs0104]

You've got a point. I wonder, when they moved her, if they took a look at the condition she was in? When she died she was hardly more than a skeleton...

[@davidww80]

I was told the final husband controlled her estate and the kids had to wait till he died to have her moved to this resting spot. Where they wanted her all along.

[@stevejarrettnc]

LetMeTouchIt her last husband, Mickey Deans dies years ago, in 2003.

[@davidbrown8303]

That is the way it is with everyday people as well. You're mother or your father could marry someone before they die that could withhold what rightfully should go to the children. I think in a lot of cases the husband thinks that the family will just go away and could squander the money.

[@ghostcityshelton9378]

@@davidbrown8303 I lived within 15 or 20 min walking distance to my mother & stepfather and got to be with them & help them out for 17 years. My 'X' sister & grown kids, step sister & brother would come very few times while my mom & stepdad were alive but when they knew the stepdad was dieing then they were like buzzards is the nicest way I can put it. My stepdad died at the end of March while my mother was in a nursing home. They took everything that wasn't nailed down, got away with changing both WILLS and my mother died 4 months latter. My so called sister even cancelled my mother's funeral to 'save on expenses' and wouldn't even let me have her ashes, somehow the step sister got them. That was 2010. So yeah, ALOT of times the cockroaches come out of the woodwork when family members pass away. They can't take away 17 years of wonderful memories that we, my mom & stepdad had together. I just take the hurt and anger to God and let Him take care of things. It's funny, she was always a not so nice person, bully really to me as a child and she tried to hit me the day of 'our' mother's 'funeral', she was drunk and had her 'beer muscles' and tried to hit me again .... (I'm 7 yrs younger, have spent 14 yrs reg. Army & 6 yrs USARS, am a Combat soldier) I laughed in her face and said, "Bring it on!!!" Her kids looked on in shock cause I try to be the quiet one but the sudden fear on my 'sister's' face, was very gratifying. I know that may be wrong but it was. This DI would have ...lets just say, she'd of had a very bad day, ha, ha. But she chilled and kept her distance. I didn't stoop to her low level to beat the crap out of her, she's just not worth it. I live in Maryland and the 'sister' lives in West Virginia with her son still living with her, he's in his 50's and has had 1 job pumping gas for two weeks, he's been in Fort Dix prison and is just to lazy to work, well look who his mother is, ha, ha. He only say one thing to me the day of my mother's non funeral and stated that now I was really an orphan. 😁Nice right? Well I somewhat, very little stay in contact with my 'sister's' daughter, if 'mom' passes away I want to know about it, and ... if there's a funeral ...I will deffinetly show up wearing Dress Blues Army uniform. I'll only have one thing to say quitely to her son, "Now 'YOU' are really an 'ORPHEN' Roger." Then I'm walking away, couldn't care less about the funeral. So...yeah...you are so right. I wrote this long comment out to hopefully wrong folks that might now avoid having the same problems in the future, esp. the ones that think their family would never do that, and then it happens to them. Hey! They were warned. 👻🤘

[@robwebnoid5763]

​@@ghostcityshelton9378 ... Good story. In about 2006, I finally lost my job at Intel. I was there for about 12 years. Actually thousands lost their jobs at Intel at that time, in the US & also partly globally. Basically a mass layoff, but Intel doesn't call it that. Intel does mass layoffs on occasion, much like other big companies. You may have heard news about those Intel mass layoffs in the news back then. Anyway, I looked around a bit for jobs, but I was so depressed losing work that I just fell back to & returned to the family business (mom & dad's), full time around 2007. Before that, I was there part time, working near the end of the week, while the main job was at Intel. Well, so for the next decade full time at my dad's, I worked there (medical clinic) doing clerical work & also maintaining computer hardware & software. Unfortunately, by 2011, my dad's health started to go downhill, but it was so slow, it was not readily apparent. In the end, he had a major stroke unexpectedly at the hospital & 11 days later died in the ICU, about 2 days short of new year's 2018. He didn't even get to see new years. He could only communicate by blinking & even that was not enough to know what he wanted to say. There was no closure. We could only say goodbye, but he could not say goodbye to us. I'm not here to talk about revenge & stuff. I'm here to reflect personally on what you said about the last 17 years with your parents & that this struck a chord with me, because now that I look back, it appears that God kept me from finding a job somewhere else, to corral me back to be closer to my dad for the last years of his life once I returned. Thus from 2007 to 2017. In that last decade, I became the de facto car driver & brought him to parties, meetings, etc, & then by 2011, drove him to medical appointments, to the hospital, to anywhere he needed to be. Today, it's been nearly 2.5 years since his death & burial. So it's still near to me. I can thank God for giving me that time left with dad, but at the same time I wish that God gave my dad a different path where he did not die the way he did. Because I said we had no closure, the grief is still there, but as they say, time heals all wounds. And in the end, I'm sure I will see dad again. I found just a tiny bit of solace in your words, so I had to tell my own similar story. As we all look at the video clip above, we find how life is short & that there are a million, or billion, stories out there, just like ours.

[@TheLk35mm]

@@stevejarrettnc yeah he was gay.

[@katvega8029]

Just watched this today because the Judy Garland anniversary came up on the app. Weirdly, I was just talking about Dick Dale today and there he was! Thanks for this, I was a big fan of his. And of course a huge fan of Judy Garland. May both RIP.

[@QWOMYN]

Glad to see you on KZbin more often. You are the best person to do this 💕💕

[@margannaful]

Thank you, Scott, for all you do. You have made this quarantine bearable!

[@stephaniestanley8041]

Oh my Scott I had no idea Judy's burial spot was so incredible. It fits ❤ the talent of the ultimate performer she was.

[@pdxer8895]

Thanks, this was really interesting. As a kid, my parents took me to one of these celebrity graveyards. It freaked me out. Now I see the idea in a very different light.

[@natashanyxx9486]

I met Dick Dale after a show in Branson, MO. He was an intense guy. He was really hard of hearing, and his guitar on stage was REALLY LOUD. Like, painfully loud. I felt honored to see him play and to chat with him though.

[@kenkemzura903]

Privileged to have watched and meet Dick Dale in concert at the Inglewood forum in 1986 and L A County Fair in 1988.

[@onewildsheep]

I love these kind of videos you do. They're so entertaining and educational at the same time.

[@terrykluner920]

Thanks for the tour Scott. Love what you do.

[@brianmcdowell6066]

The king of surf guitar. Dick Dale was a legend. A god among men. RIP to the king.

[@annmeyer2854]

I am thrilled you’re doing these videos. You’re performing a useful public service!

[@lanadale1479]

I placed my husband Music Legend Dick Dale's double niche at the Hollywood Forever Cemetary next to the Judy Garland Bldg. My friend Rick Jason is buried in the older Bldg. Please visit Dick Dale's Memorial.

[@DearlyDepartedTours]

Oh how nice! I love how you decorated his niche. It’s wonderful. My own niche is jus a few spaces from Rick Jason.

[@outsider238]

Those niches are really great. Such a wonderful way to be remembered. I definitely want to be cremated when the time comes.

[@akrenwinkle]

Niche work if you can get it.

[@doorguru168888]

Dick Dale's display is amazing!

[@alexisrichmond3586]

Another great job. Thank you so much for doing this.

[@dirtydave2691]

Dick Dale came to my high school in 1981. He came to see a local surf band called "The Rip Tides". Not too many of the kids knew who was but I did. He seemed like a really cool guy.

[@Flo81]

I have your App. I dont know how long. It is one of my Rituals in the Morning to look "whooo died today" and this brings me to Things I would never learned of. I would not miss the Apk anymore, thank you for doing that for free, this is truly amazing😊🎖️ Greetings from Germany ✌🏻

[@TheMartinick]

Nice to see your post! Always a fan, Scott!

[@mcel33]

Great video, Scott! Loved seeing all the niches. Hope to get there some day and visit in person.

[@stevesutherland6232]

Thanks for the video....great job as always!!!!!!

[@GK-mz3zt]

Thanks, Scott. Cemetery/Mausoleum neighbors. Now I'm in the mood to watch 'The Loved One'.

[@d.nicely]

Another Great job by Mr. Scott Michaels!

[@v2vroth]

Great vlog 🎸🎶 thanks for sharing

[@murphy1384]

Great video...loved the surfer music...my era. Hope Judy is resting peacefully. Mary

[@herbm8709]

Another great one!!!

[@chrisjeffries2322]

Thank you Scott.

[@bullitts]

Awesome... thanks Scott!

[@adventureswithchristian6967]

Thank you for making videos. You make them very interesting.

[@brooklyngal6334]

There's a 6th season episode of Law and Order Criminal Intent with Liza Minelli. This was 2006. It had scenes where she's in a mausoleum in NYC. I wonder if they filmed it where her mother originally was.

[@moonchildluvsbobcrane]

I have used an area in my home as niches for ashes. My adult children have their dad who is my ex husband and I have my dad and my cat Precious. They each have a niche behind glass.

[@vigpugyt8055]

I don’t think we have anything like this in the U.K.? Lots of old churches, but no mausoleums like that. They are amazing! On a side note, I’m really impressed with Scott taking his hat off before he entered. Wonderful, traditional respect for the friends and family of the deceased. Keep up with the awesome podcast guys, I tell everyone to listen to it. I have lost track of how many times I’ve listened to all the episodes. They are brilliant. Thank you and best wishes from the U.K. x

[@janhoyle4471]

I want to thank your friend for starting find a death. Because of the site I was able to find my nephew who died at 15 & was never able to get to his funeral . I live in so Cal & my sisters family lives in Westland, MI. I also got to check on my brothers gave in Southfield, he died in Vietnam in 68.

[@jodyhoevel6393]

Thanks for posting. I missed the chance to see Dick Dale when I last visited CA in 2016.

[@zebdoz333]

always love your uploads as well as your web site! i dont knwo if you remember me, but i am the person that sent you a poem when a friend of your s passed away , i can t recall her name but she was a real short lady and you loved your friend and seemed sad about her passing, well, keep up the great work buddy! always Robert Hollis

[@sandyschipper155]

Thankyou for the Judy Garland visit.

[@MedicOnTheMove1]

I've just subscribed and I really enjoy your content! Plus, you have the most soothing voice, I think you should ditch your day job and read audio books for a living. 😊 Thanks for this!

[@buzzevermore9309]

Great voice and storytelling, sir.

[@funnygirl3351]

Ive never seen anything like those glass bookcase tombs. I love the idea that you can see the urn and also have room for stuff (who doesn't love their stuff) Scott, my question to you is how much do you think one of them goes for? I see that there are different sizes as well, so I'm assuming the bigger the tomb the higher the price. Thoughts????

[@JungleYT]

She was a very tiny person I later learned - Only 4' 11"... Wonder if they opened the coffin or if it was still intact after all of those years? P.S. Could you locate *Diahann Carrol?* Still a big mystery on that one...

[@hughhaefner5486]

I wondered the same thing. Casket falling apart and needs to be in a new one?

[@davemattia]

Judy's casket was perfectly intact and put into a black plastic box which looked like a casket sized shoe box. In turn, that box was put into a large white rubberized plastic zip bag with a few wraps of discreet bio-hazard yellow ribbon cinched at the middle. The cloaked casket, some US Post Office mail, and a whole lot of luggage, were placed within the cargo hold of an ordinary American Airlines 757 which was making a run-of-the-mill flight from LaGuardia to LAX, with 109 passengers and crew aboard. Yes, dead people often fly beneath you in the cargo hold and, in this case, 109 folks can claim that they flew on a plane with Judy Garland, but they don't know it. You don't know you're flying with a corpse, especially an iconic one, unless you're sitting on the right side of the plane and watching the cargo ride up the conveyor, but in Judy's case, her "unit" was loaded prior to boarding and stamped by a DOH inspector. Upon landing, the pilot said, welcome to Los Angeles International Airport... and welcome home Judy." No one paid attention to the comment or perhaps they assumed it was a personal remark to a crew member aboard the plane. I do not know if her casket was opened upon exhumation, but I assume it was opened when it arrived at the LA County mortuary. There are rules about which I am confused. How could they be sure it was Judy? I have no idea. I only know about the logistics of how she got from here to there.

[@bobtranquilli9985]

Thanks, Scott.

[@dirtydianaslots]

Yeahhh new video ❤️❤️

[@lanacampbell-moore6686]

Thank You😊

[@jkawakam]

Hi Scott, Thank you for mentioning Jim. I went out to see him today.

[@MICHELLE-gu2qc]

You have a great channel

[@alf.2929]

So I guess all those who want to be close to Judy in the Judy Garland Pavilion are Friend(s) of Dorothy. BTW, I think I read in her biography years ago Frank Sinatra picked up the outstanding funeral cost in NY because he thought it was a disgrace that she was on ice for a while without a proper burial.

[@michelinelalonde2217]

Al F. Liza paid uncle Frank back.

[@brooklyngal6334]

Places in Asia like Korea and also Japan I believe had glass window burial niches for years, it's a marvelous idea for the families and friends to come to pay respects.

[@lauriegulde942]

Thanks Scott, I still love the wizard of Oz.🌈🐦 Very interesting place, I could stay all week reading names. Love from Canada, stay safe.😎✌😷👍

[@natalieangelo54]

Here in jersey our CEMETERIES are still closed ..great video , thank you stay safe 🥰👍❤

[@UberLummox]

What a weird scene, man! Used to play a couple Dick Dale tunes in my surf band. But just chuck me in the ocean. I don't need company.

[@JaimeExploring]

Wow maybe no cost to the family. I'm hoping to return for a Sunny day at Hollywood Forever, have a good week Scott!

[@debbieclark7031]

I like the personalization of the niche shows a bit of who they were. Dick Dale's music is sexy and so cool. How many were singing that riff with Scott ? Perfect ending.

[@donsnider4607]

I remember when she died they said she was absolutely broke no money to burry her.

[@shebamaree9026]

They say frank Sinatra paid for it

[@funnygirl3351]

I was there with Brian Donnelly and they were getting the grave ready for Judy. The guard there confirmed it. It will be nice to go back now that she has arrived.

[@erlstone]

cool...nice little segue from Dick to your signature surf tune ending. cowabunga!

[@stp7907]

Love what you do. Deeply offended by the Zoom pun.

[@TheHarryleemartin]

I didn't know Commander Cody was there! What a treat to see him, and I had no idea about the new hallway niches.

[@barrytooley6724]

How the hell many ads can you put in an 11 minute video ? Apparently lots

[@anthonymarks8684]

6:10 EVP

[@davidbrown8303]

I like the way you think when it comes to logic. I think the same way myself.

[@robwebnoid5763]

But what keeps people from breaking into those glass compartments & stealing ashes & paraphernalia?

[@bonniebrown6960]

I've never seen graves like that before . Interesting...!! Thank you Scott for taking us along . Scott , the other day I was watching one of your live stream and someone was talking about Milton Burls being a pervert . I have never heard about that before . I tried to find a biography about him, but I didn't have much success with that . Would you mind telling that story about him ? I just assumed he was a nice guy , but from what you were talking about he wasn't such a decent person after all . Just curious . 🤔🤗😉

[@psefti]

Bonnie Brown: he was a very nasty man indeed.

[@bigboxbobby2]

Wow Judy and Dick together at last - who would have thought! Interesting video thanks

[@Mynamesalexa]

Talked to Dick Dale a lot via email. (DDStrat@the grid.net) He told me when he leaves this world, I'd hear him in the wind... My brother and a niece saw him in a North Jersey Club in '99.

[@colinbocher8102]

So, the Dick Dale niche, and those who will be joining him on that island, looks as if it was not part of the original plan for the mausoleum. It makes that hallway look cluttered. It reminds me of the Special Sales items blocking the aisles at Walmart or the grocery store. What if the family members of one of those laid to rest behind the wall decide to pull a Judy Garland themselves and move their loved one only Mr Dick Dale’s Island Niche is in the way and they can’t retrieve the remains?

[@TuiSnider]

Hope Judy gets to stay put now! Love all the unique grave goods in those niches. I don’t see obvious locks for each niche. Wonder how they open?

[@onewildsheep]

I am guessing the screws at the corners of the glass?

[@missysanz9078]

To help with the reflections, carry a black umbrella with you and have it behind you while you film

[@rupaa62]

Do you how much they are charging for spots in the Judy Garland pavilion?

[@fabrizio483]

Judy's burial was a complete mess. After the funereal ceremony, her casket was placed inside of a vault in Ferncliff's cemetery, where she stayed for about a year until a tabloid published that Judy had never been actually buried at all, so Liza whipped that out in 1970. What I heard was that as she faces her own mortality, Liza decided to move Judy to a bigger place so that when she dies she can be buried with her mother.

[@frankiebella7808]

🌈Now she's finally over the rainbow 🌈

[@SaxonC]

Scott, do you know if she was buried with the glass top she was shown in at her wake and funeral in 1969? And when they exhumed her body, was she visible?

[@LeAnimal65]

Scott!

[@carolyndee4565]

One way to recoup the expenses

[@sandrathesimmer]

Hollywood Forever has the official title of being the first ever cemetery lift I've ever been in, and it was a terrifying experience but an experience after all.

[@muckaxe]

Call me crazy, but I was just there in October and I don’t remember those urn niches being there. Wow!

[@Tatortot318]

Whats a glass cubicle go for?..Any idea?

[@srdale56]

Put the Mick in that pavilion!! He belongs there!

[@margaretstewart7187]

Judy Garland was born and bred in California I don’t know why they buried her in New York

[@MosaicRose99]

Hey Scott, would love to see your spot someday. Isn't it near Rudy Valentino?

[@alltwocustomz6829]

I CAN DIG IT.😎

[@DCFunBud]

To me, Kathleen Freeman was Hollywood like Ellen Corby and Charles Lane. Her longtime partner was Helen Ramsey who died the same year.

[@hughhaefner5486]

Scott, when they do something like this, do they have to put her in a new casket because the original casket could be in bad condition? Just a morbid thought.

[@donaldmcauliffe7653]

My favorite movie of hers is a star is born. I just saw it uncut at friend house they had originally cut it down in different pieces my friend got a copy on b ray. Watching it uncut you see more of the movie the way it should it be shown for years she try to find the parts they cut from the movie.

[@michelinelalonde2217]

Donald Mcauliffe you may have seen the rereleased movie with added stills, but you did not see the original uncut movie. Sadly, that footage is lost. 💙

[@donaldmcauliffe7653]

@@michelinelalonde2217 they found it. 80 percentage of the original movie uncut was found in 2018 only 20 percentage is still lost or destory. They found a print of the movie in movie lab that had been used a few times only that print was shown in movie theaters. Now copys of that print are on b ray or dvd

[@donaldmcauliffe7653]

@@michelinelalonde2217 look it up they found a new print of that movie in 2018 with 80 percentage back in it. It was not cut as much as they first thought that print was put in safe place

[@MakeshiftMemorial]

So did you use that 10% coupon at Mel’s or not?