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HairballTheory t1_iyrtqb7 wrote

Just like my life, my memorial will end up in the gutter

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NuttyMcCrunch t1_iyru56l wrote

It's most likely gravestones that we're messed up in the making process. Cant erase a mistake on stone.

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Duchesst t1_iyrvjh5 wrote

Reduce,reuse recycle

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plasticmotives t1_iyrydgo wrote

Goodness - looking at that photo I have a very vivid mental picture of walking back up a hill to a youth hostel back in the early 2000's.

No idea if it's the same place, but it's a solid match in my head. Fascinating - thank you!

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Murderyoga t1_iyrzdhr wrote

Pull up all gravestones and plant tomatoes.

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diablodeldragoon t1_iys1tiz wrote

I'd imagine they were messed up in some way during production.

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old_gold_mountain OP t1_iys2u16 wrote

Replying to diablodeldragoon (#853,526)

San Francisco relocated large cemeteries from Western neighborhoods down to the city of Colma in the early 1900s. Living relatives of the deceased were given the opportunity to claim a gravestone and request its relocation, but the ones that went unclaimed were claimed by the city and used as construction materials.

More info here: https://hoodline.com/2013/10/the-secret-tombstones-of-buena-vista-park/

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Head-like-a-carp t1_iytg8sq wrote

"Robert, I knew ye would end up in the gutter. You always were no damn good."

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FUCKYOUINYOURFACE t1_iytk9nu wrote

A lot or these are gravestones with errors and so don’t get used as actual gravestones.

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imnotsoho t1_iytmngy wrote

Some time after the 1906 earthquake all of the cemeteries were relocated to Colma - City of the Dead. Colma has about 6,000 live residents and 600,000 graves.

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k0uch t1_iytmzij wrote

Well that’s sad. Not the reusing of material, but that these people are long gone and forgotten

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Croatian_Hitman t1_iytnvbc wrote

Replying to k0uch (#855,504)

it's nothing new. It's really a wonder that there's anything left of the ancient world at all, since stones have been taken from ancient ruins to build bridges, churches, and roads for as long as people have been building with stone to begin with. But it is a bit unusual to see that in more modern times, especially in cities like San Francisco.

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LouisLima t1_iytr6vk wrote

Were there only gravestones used or are there people buried in the park? Is there any Urban legend in this park?

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rachelcp t1_iyttae6 wrote

Replying to imnotsoho (#855,497)

Hopefully but it doesn't seem that way, do you have a source?

Just skimmed the article and they were talking about the reasoning being due to the gravesite being an unsightly waste of space, they also mentioned all those who didn't have loved ones being moved to mass graves.

I couldn't find any mention of replacing the headstones though I might have missed it but i doubt that anyone who would disrespect that many dead by moving them to a mass grave would also use the time and money to carve them brand new headstones.

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username_05 t1_iytwaey wrote

Their names are being dragged through the gutters

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Rux81 t1_iyu1hke wrote

My turn will come soon enough. Dust in the wind.

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sreek4r t1_iyuhdjq wrote

I bet there's an urban legend about the place being haunted.

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Grokker999 t1_iyuhsx3 wrote

Replying to Croatian_Hitman (#855,526)

In the 30 years I've lived here, I've also noticed that there's a lot less visible grave stones in Buena Vista Park then there used to be. It's a little weird for me to live here long enough for gravestones to further decay. It goes for the whole city really it is constantly changing. But it's a little bit incremental.

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Splixalpha t1_iyukvg9 wrote

I actually lived next to an old pioneer cemetery on the West Coast. They had piles of old broken gravestones back in the grounds keeping area. A couple hundred years of weather can break just about anything down.

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peeniebaby t1_iyulxc5 wrote

Couldn’t they have had the decency to turn the text side down?

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DanteDMC2001 t1_iyun83s wrote

Yup! It’s still not uncommon nowadays to see something like this.

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Memnoch79 t1_iyunf6b wrote

That's what we call being Progressive in CA.

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dcvalent t1_iyunr5d wrote

Remember, your “forever resting place” is usually only 30 years long

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mykidsarecrazy t1_iyurdvx wrote

My cousin's house had head stones as stepping stones from the street to the door. They didn't know until they did some work and had to move one. They replaced them all. I forget where they had come from.

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ExternalOne4202 t1_iyurmbh wrote

100 years after you are dead, no one will remember you ever existed.

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ColumbaPacis t1_iyuuc5z wrote

Replying to Anothereternity (#856,236)

Some of these are so old, they probably couldn't tell what their names are or wrote down the wrong thing.

Does it really matter? A bunch of local graves old are almost two centuries old. Nobody remembers who any of them were.

The point of graves never made sense for me, at least for those who are not religious.

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Tranetime t1_iyuvl1b wrote

Replying to imnotsoho (#855,494)

The deceased population in Colma was 600,000 about 40 years ago so it must be over a million know. Also, did you know that Wyatt Earp is buried in Holy Cross? Strange but true. So is Joe DiMaggio. People leave balls, bats and Yankees caps at his grave.

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assassins-CWEED t1_iyuy3oc wrote

In Lehman Caves, FDR’s New Deal program broke stalactites/ stalagmites & used them as timber for wall support. Unfortunate prioritization.

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helfrichi t1_iyv0fho wrote

Replying to ExternalOne4202 (#856,641)

Yes after a few generations there will be nobody alive that even knows your name. What’s my great great grandfathers name? Fuck if I know.

always makes me think of Percy Shelley’s ozymandias.

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Kandiruaku t1_iyv36gv wrote

Back around New England 20 years ago I knew two guys who work the excavator at an old cemetery and a gravesite dealer, they reassured me I could count on being exhumed within 150 years if gravesite unattended for more than 50 years, such is human greed. Donating my cadaver to science, also makes for zero funeral expenses.

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mouthdrummer t1_iyvis3e wrote

“You son of a bitch! You moved the cemetery, but you left the bodies, didn't you? You son of a bitch, you left the bodies and you only moved the headstones!”

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ParkieDude t1_iyvs0qh wrote

Replying to ExternalOne4202 (#856,641)

My great grandfather (born in Galway, Ireland, in 1846, came to San Francisco as a child, resided as an adult on 51 Sanchez Street SF, and died in 1907.)

His job in San Francisco was as an undertaker. When business was slow, they made furniture, otherwise coffins.

His daughter, my Grandmother, was born in 1883 and lived in San Francisco. Oh, she had some great stories. Sharp as a tack until she passed away in 1971.

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