Showing posts with label Evergreen Cemetery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Evergreen Cemetery. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Taphophile Tragics: Hells Angels

I was visiting Evergreen Cemetery in East Oakland hoping to find the graves of the Jonestown victims.  Instead I found all these headstones dedicated to Oakland Hells Angels who have died.  I felt like the girl in the Exorcist, with my head whipping around when I saw these markers on my drive by.  These definitely were not here last Fall.  Their website also mentions these men but not the new grave stones.   I think they are memorial stones rather than actual grave markers.  All that black granite with the skull logos makes an impressive display.

For more cemetery wanderings, visit Julie's Taphophile Tragics.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

end of the trail

This tombstone was spotted at Evergreen Cemetery in East Oakland.  While I was not able to find information about this family, the image on the gravestone is the iconic End of the Trail by James Fraser.  Evergreen Cemetery is best known as the final resting place for many of the victims of the Jonestown tragedy.  For more cemetery wanderings, visit Julie's new meme Taphophile Tragics.