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05-30-2009, 11:29 PM
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05-31-2009, 01:04 AM
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Congrats! Wish I could go... I guess that's one more reason for me to visit Cali.
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05-31-2009, 03:37 AM
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Welcome! Only a few of us hags have actually gone on the tour, so we'd love to hear stories and see piccies! Of course, put them up somewhere, and I'm sure everyone will be happy to help identify!
Anyway, welcome! Go poke around in the old threads. If you're a hag, you're in for some tasty stuff here!
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05-31-2009, 08:46 AM
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NancyDrew, welcome to our circus! 10,000th? How extremely cool. You might consider framing your copy of George Michael's arrest report or something. Look forward to seeing your pix -- flickr, Photobucket, any hosting site should work fine. Right-click on the image you want to post here, select "Copy Image Location" or "Copy Image URL", then come back to your post, click the "insert image" icon and paste it in. Here's one of my wife you may have seen before, using that method:
That's the Ramsey house in Boulder. It's up for sale again, for at least the third time since little JonBenet was murdered. Anyway, NancyDrew, you'll have a great time here. Just don't take anything -- or anyone -- too seriously.  (Speaking of which, Chevy, you really ought to warn the new folks about your condition -- you know, the Permanent Sarcastic Syndrome -- before you start in on them.  )
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05-31-2009, 10:21 AM
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Hello!
I took the tour last October, so would be happy to help identify pictures. I didn't have the best vantage point, so I didn't post, but I will try to post some of the good ones. I did post one of me and Scott in the "Post Your Photos..." thread. Oh, and it's my avatar. *duh*  Shelley
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05-31-2009, 11:03 AM
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05-31-2009, 11:05 AM
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Thanks for the warm welcomes, everyone! I am definitely going to make a photo album here and will take help from anyone who can help me identify the houses. I posted all my pics on my facebook account and identified the ones I could, but there are some blanks. I knew I would forget some! I was so darn excited AND I got to sit in the front with Scott! WOOT!
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05-31-2009, 11:09 AM
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WELCOME DAHLING! Just another envious FAD hag welcoming you to our little world!
Hag Hugs, Tallu XOXO
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05-31-2009, 03:10 PM
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I'm going through your albums and adding some info on the pics that I remember and the ones I can find matches for both on the forum and on the main FAD site, to help you i.d. them. I betcha more FAD forum members can i.d. more of them and can add some info to them for you too through pic comments.
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05-31-2009, 05:47 PM
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My name is Karen too but the hat Nancy Drew fits me to a "T".
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05-31-2009, 05:47 PM
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05-31-2009, 06:04 PM
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 Bonita Granville? Pamela Sue Martin? or  Emma Roberts?
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05-31-2009, 06:12 PM
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Congrats Nancy Drew! I'm so green with envy I could spit
Post your pics, there are many on here who will be able to identify the places in your pics.
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05-31-2009, 06:25 PM
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She's got them in her profile albums. About halfway down the page on the right.
: http://www.findadeath.com/forum/member.php?u=5874
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05-31-2009, 06:55 PM
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They're all posted! Dive right in!
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07-25-2009, 03:20 PM
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labeling pictures
you can post your pictures and send them to scott. He will tell you who or what they are. He did it for me. I described some of my pictures and he told me what they were of. I want to take the tour again and write down the house names and places. (that is just a bit of my OCD coming out in me) lol
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07-25-2009, 10:34 PM
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[quote=WriterDude;787917]NancyDrew, welcome to our circus! 10,000th? How extremely cool. You might consider framing your copy of George Michael's arrest report or something. Look forward to seeing your pix -- flickr, Photobucket, any hosting site should work fine. Right-click on the image you want to post here, select "Copy Image Location" or "Copy Image URL", then come back to your post, click the "insert image" icon and paste it in. Here's one of my wife you may have seen before, using that method:
That's the Ramsey house in Boulder. It's up for sale again, for at least the third time since little JonBenet was murdered. I looked all over for that house when I was there. I had some real problems with the map ...the steet ended and I never did find it.
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07-25-2009, 10:37 PM
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09-27-2009, 01:58 PM
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thanks scott from john & Caítlíona in ireland!
hi scott, just wanted to say thanks for the wonderful tour you gave cait and i in june, it truely was the highlight of the trip to la for me! and thanks so much for dropping us down to the hollywood forever cemetary, we found the grave of ed woods wive kathy and since the trip ive developed a great fascination with the black dahlia case, any chance of an update on the sight with pictures of the present crime scenes??
thanks so much again scott, i cant wait to head back to las and do another tour with you! John + cait
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09-27-2009, 02:00 PM
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Hiya John. If you'd have looked about 3 spaces about Kathy, you'd have seen my own grave/niche. Small world : )
Glad you had a good time, I'm really happy you enjoyed the tour. S
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11-11-2009, 04:08 PM
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Dearly Departed-Dearly Disappointing
Living here in Southern California and being an avid Death Hag, I always wanted to take the DDTour.
My visiting brother and I finally did and we were kind of disappointed. I read all those "great" ratings on the website....but unfortunately didn't take into consideration that 95% of those were written by just "tourist types" and NOT true Death Hags. The Paramount Gates? Mae West's House? Judy Garland's old house? Who cares? They have nothing to do with DEATH. The Menendez House was great as was the LaBianca Home. The Viper Room was good too as was the Knickerbacker.....all the true death locations were fine......but the school from Grease? What was that about? Bring on George Reeves' House......"Crispy Jack" Cassidy's Condo....Sal Mineo's death lot. We ended up just taking my car to many of the sites, even though they were close by the tour route. I wanted a Death Tour not a ride past a bunch of has-been queens' homes. A regular tourist might be intrigued by the run of the mill Hollywood stuff but as a Death Hag I want death-related sites. The guide, Richard was very nice and knew the facts......but the Dearly Departed Tour was Departed of True Death Hagness. 
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11-11-2009, 04:12 PM
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I'm sorry you found it disapointing, i know a lot have taken the tour here and found it very interesting. i myself would love to come over to USA and take the tour..
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11-11-2009, 05:01 PM
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To each their own I suppose. I have not taken the tour...yet! However, I have a good friend who took the tour in July. She said it was worth every cent and loved it. Her description of the tour and Scott's knowledge of his true passion made me want to hop on the next plane to LA.
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11-11-2009, 05:14 PM
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11-12-2009, 12:22 AM
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I truly appreciate your honestly, but I do feel like I need to defend my little tour. My tour is lengthy, at over 3 hours. I couldn't include everything, or we'd be going all day. Almost every other tour in Hollywood is only 2 hours long, for the same price you pay for mine.
Now, the Grease thing? It made getting from the Black Dahlia house to the LaBianca house a little more interesting. Otherwise, we'd be sitting in silence, which is really desirable to do for a tour guide, but I thought it'd be nice to point out something fun. Mae West died in that home, I won't even defend that. George Reeves is a 10 minute drive up the canyon, and a 10 minute drive back. I didn't think it would be cost effective to spend 20 minutes on one site. Mineo, that was a decision I made to drop because it actually happened in an alley well off the street. You can't see it. I don't include Cassidy because it happened in 1976, but instead show the more current location where Phil Spector picked up Lana Clarkson, we couldn't do both. So, I'm sorry you didn't think it worthy. I can't please everyone, But I challenge you to find a better tour company in Hollywood.
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11-12-2009, 09:33 AM
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ok well if i gots to go to hollywood id need at leest half a year to fully take in all the places that i being a proud death hag would love to look at specially at night
besides thats the great thing about perspective i re read the stories here n in findadeath n i get sumin new each time
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11-12-2009, 10:55 AM
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Scott, don't get me wrong, if I wanted a regular tour of Hollywood........your's would be first on my list for price, professionalism of the guide, and the number of sites visited...no question. As far as locations I'll give you Mae West...kind of...., but I really think the Jack Cassidy site would be much more interesting because it involved probably one of the most macabre deaths in Hollywood (burning to a crisp is about as bad as it gets) coupled with that large fire to the building (which was repaired to it's original look as you mention, that picture of the damaged building from your site would look great in your tour guide book).......... vs. a place where an old lady died of pneumonia.......sad I guess....but tragic? It was her time. The Black Dahlia house involved the home where the "possible" killer lived once. The lot where she was found would have been much more appropriate (although I realize the distance might be a problem). The place that Phil Spector picked up his victim is OK, but the place where she was murdered is the real interest. It's kind of like visiting the San Diego airport because that's where PSA Flight #182 was planning on landing......instead of the site at Dwight & Nile where the plane crashed into the street killing 144 people and destroying a dozen homes. (Talk about a chilling location.) Being a former cop and former mortuary worker, I guess I'm more interested in seeing a few "truly tragic death scenes" than a larger number of blase scenes. But we'll agree to disagree in that there needs more death and less non-tragic history.
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11-12-2009, 11:40 AM
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A regular tour of Hollywood would not show you Rebecca Schaeffer's assassination spot, play the Menendez 911 call, show photos of Bugsy Siegel or Lana Turner/Johnny Stompanato death scenes, or play the Michael Jackson 911 call or the Phoenix 911 call or the Labianca house or...
So, in all friendliness, I don't agree to disagree.
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11-12-2009, 12:41 PM
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Those were the highlights absolutely and I loved it.....That's the stuff I expected and you delivered like no-one else.......but you need more of that and less of the time consuming non-tragic: ....Grease school....Judy Garland's old house.....Paramount Gate....The last house on Sunset.....Scientology's ex-hospital building.....Stephen Stucker's apartment.....Richard Simmons exercise studio.....House of Davids........Magic House........George Takei's house......School building with MJ's name covered over.......House where Marilyn lived (not died)......and any location that shows where bimbos like Paris Hilton or other clone-like nobodies get DUI's or hit bushes  ........Tragic? Not so much..... Last edited by surfca2; 11-12-2009 at 12:49 PM.
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11-12-2009, 01:23 PM
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in your opinion.
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11-12-2009, 01:45 PM
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George Takei's house is tragic? What is tragic about Richard Simmon's studio? How does The House of Davids belong on a Dearly Departed tour? If you can show the connection, then maybe I'll change "my opinion."
From reading over 400 posts on Zerve regarding the tour.....I'm not the only one that feels this way. Forget it. You request opinions about the tour and then subtly attack the response. I tried to be honest, but you don't want to hear it. Half your tour is great, the other half is a bore with no connection to anything tragic. George Michael.....Stephen Stucker.....Richard Simmons.....George Takei......Perhaps you should change the name to the Hollywood Gay Tour with an occassional Death site...not that there's nothing wrong with that, but the Dearly Departed Tour is a misnomer because the majority of the sites have nothing to do with death or tragedy. Thanks for the tour, but with your "attitude" I think I'll cancel my future plans to take your other ones. Last edited by surfca2; 11-12-2009 at 03:49 PM.
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11-12-2009, 05:14 PM
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The point I'm trying to make is that those sites just make getting from point A to point B a little more interesting. An alternative would be to take back alleys and sit in silence. That's all. Sorry you don't like my attitude. A lot of people don't. Next time I'll butch it up for you.
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11-12-2009, 11:34 PM
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I am a true death hag.. enjoyed the hell out of the tour and would do it again in a heart beat.. as it is a year has passed since my tour and I'm sure i've missed some great stuff that has probably been added (MJ)..
Those extra sites *RYDELL HIGH!* did make getting from point A to B much more enjoyable and I for one loved stopping at the bathroom spot.. sure sure it would have been more interesting if George killed someone and THEN played with his turtle neck.. but it was still great.. and the perfect spot to relieve yourself.. (bladder, just in case you needed clarification).. Getting around in LA is difficult enough as it is and to try to include all these other areas in would be impossible.. 20 minutes out of your way for one site in particular.. no thank you.. Scott got it right with his route and knows LA enough to know what is possible and reasonable in that traffic (aka hell) that he deals with just about daily..
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