My Great-grandfather (and great-great-greats!) are in a couple of family mausoleums in Woodlawn in Detroit (Woodward, S. of 8 mile. Of Eminem fame). Think of the Weiss mausoleum in the video... that is about the size of them. One "sleeps" 10, the other 5 or 6. I forget. There are 8 plots behind one of the buildings. My father has no plans to use them beyond "let the 'blacks' (he used a different word, rhymes with jigger) smoke 'pot' back there".
Horace & John Dodge have their mausoleum across the pathway.
50-100 years ago... people used to go to cemetaries and have picnics, tend the flowers around loved one's graves. Now they are shunned and barely visited.
A few years ago... I hired a cleaning woman to help me clean the inside of the 2 mausoleums. I had a generator, shop-vac, ladder, etc. in the back of my truck. So after I vacuum out the spiders & webs, I kick back listening to music while the cleaning woman is wiping off 80-years of grime off the marble. She finally finishes & I shut off the truck to help her pick up stuff... Over the hill, some black family is having a funeral.
Whoops!
James
