Exploring a City With More Dead People Than Living
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- Welcome to Colma, CA, a town where the dead outnumber the living. In 2024, the town celebrated its 100 year anniversary. So along with my friend Adam of @AdamDoesNotExist, I paid Colma a visit to find out what it's like to live in a place where you're surrounded by death.
Check out Adam's video about Colma on his channel: • I Visited the City Whe...
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📌 The Town of Colma (Official Website): colma.ca.gov/
📌 Why Are There So Many Graves in Colma? And So Few in San Francisco?: www.kqed.org/n...
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Came here from Adam’s channel. I truly enjoyed both Colma videos. Would I live there? Sure. When I was a kid, the local cemetery was a place to take walks and just get off the city streets for awhile.
You questioned the “Change” at the DiMaggio grave. It is a military custom and signifies remembrance and respect. Different coins have different meanings.
Penny: means that a person made a visit to give thoughts and respect to the fallen military member
Nickel: indicates that the visitor and the deceased service member were acquainted and trained together at boot camp
Dime: symbolizes that the visitor directly served together alongside the deceased in some capacity
Quarter: signifies that the visitor was present with the solider when they were killed
So next time you go see Joe, leave a Penny 😀
For the natives, "Its great to be alive in Colma"! I live across the street &
walk my dog daily there. Was waiting for coyotes to come see you guys filming.
Love it here, I walk by "Joe DiMaggio" everyday! ~
Yay! You're back!! I am looking forward to the videos coming out... 1 in particular ;)
:) Working on it!
It really is such an interesting place!
We had an interesting day. Thanks for driving! 😁
Great to see you back!!
Thanks Tom. 🙏
you both did great we had no idea next time we visit the family there we will look for the celebs
There’s plenty more. Visit the Colma Historical Association and they can give you maps.
That's a great T-shirt! ❤😊
You can actually buy one if you want from the Colma Historical Assocation. Here's a link (not sponsored btw 😊) www.colmahistory.com/shop/
My Mom, Dad And Grandma are buried in Colma,,,, I always stop by Wyatt and Josephine Earps grave too
Joe DiMagio was born here in Martinez. The site is now a parking lot but his uncle’s house across the street where he celebrated his first marriage just sold and will hopefully be restored.
Do you know who bought it?
My adopted children were fostered in a home very close to Colma. I was fascinated by the town and its claim to fame.
I was particularly interested in Lilly Hitchcock Coit as Hitchcock is an old family name of mine. She and her parents were born in Baltimore, where my family settled in the 1600s, so chances are high that we are distantly related.
You may have a connection to Coit Tower then!
Before there were parks, like Central and Golden Gate ( and before germ theory, when belief in a sickening miasma created the call for parks) cemeteries were used as parks in urban areas.
It’s no coincidence that the designer of Central Park, Frederick Law Olmstead designed the park like Mountain View cemetery in Oakland’s Piedmont district
What a cool fact. I did not know that. Thanks for sharing!
I found the cemeteries in Colma to be really beautiful and a little bit awe-inspiring too. Definitely a unique place to spend a day in the bay.
they put a lot of people in one grave plot
she paid for coit tower in honor of first responders