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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ม.ค. 2017
- Today I visited Lafayette Cemetery in the Garden District of New Orleans. This place has some very old tombs, plus it's one of the most used cemeteries in New Orleans for film and television! It's been used for productions such as, 'Double Jeopardy', 'NCIS: New Orleans', and even the New Kids on the Block music video for 'You Got It (The Right Stuff)'.
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Hi there, I’m NOLADEEJ! I go to different places in and around New Orleans and sometimes to other cities, states, and countries. I visit Roadside Attractions, Historical Spots, Cemeteries, Abandoned Places, Festivals and Events. I try to check as much out as I can and share what I find here so everyone can enjoy it. If you like what you see, please consider subscribing to my channel. I post videos often! Thanks for dropping by!
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I've never seen so many people complain about a cemetery before 😂 Like yeah Nola cemeteries are dirty...do you know how old New Orleans is? The family that would keep up those tombs are long dead themselves. I think the dirty and broken tombs give the sites character. I love the cemeteries down in Nola, Metairie etc and I try to visit every time I go
Exactly! I agree! If I could afford to then I'd go take care of my family tombs when other family members can't!
Scary...
I’m glad you said that because I think it gives it character. I’m from New Orleans and miss it a lot. ❤
What you see coating the outside of the tombs is also a combo of Mold alongside the dirt, or dust, I should say. I've been to this particular cemetery but was untable to get inside. Lafayette Cem is a very famous place! The tombs need to be whitewashed on the outside and always better maintained. However, we don't realise just how much traffic and visitors this plot of land attracts! It's a very busy place! A respectful.place. An awesome place. You feel.it the very second you are around it. It almost feels as if a Gravitational force pulling you toward it. The carvings on some of these tombs are outstanding. Some of the most beautiful art I've ever seen reside in Cathedrals and Cemetaries!
People complain about everything.
Ive visited that cemetery. I think it’s awesome.
Enjoyed your film. My family owns the Smith tomb with the most names on it. Since I started researching I have learned that there are 39 names on the tomb and 11 names that have not been added. This is strictly due to the cost. It was way too much for my parents to pay for when they priced it in 2010. It will continue to be used by our family.
Wow! I need to go back and check that one out. 39 names? That's pretty impressive!
Vous devriez avoir une réduction "familles nombreuses" chére Stacey" bonjour de France....
Wow. I see that most of the last names are SMITH. Are you related to Joseph Smith? Sorry, Im just curious. Coz i belong to the Mormon Church who's founder was Joseph Smith
Will you and your parents be buried there ? If there’s so many names where do all the bodies go v
Are the people cremated? Where are they fitting that many people?
Love the tombs of the 4 childhood friends I am sure there is a good story behind this.
Yes!! I want to dig deeper into this one!
@@NOLADEEJ Wow thanks! Well done!
I just found this video when I searched for Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown's headstone. The anniversary of his death is today. He is buried in Hollywood Cemetery in my hometown, Orange, Texas. It flooded in one of the disaters that hit the area a few years ago. His among others, floated up and out.
Thanks for sharing! Repectul and informative. Amazing old city and history!
@@kathy5718 Wow I didn't know his floated out! I knew that area got hit pretty hard. I need to make my way out there. I hope you're doing well, thank you!
@@NOLADEEJ Yes, you should. Our area has been hit hard a few times. That particlar time there were 12 unidentifed stored in a refrigerated rig. It took a while to get it back in order.
There is a youtube video at the Hollywood Cemetery showing the damage. My friend did the interview.
@@NOLADEEJ They all four fought in the Washington Artillery in the Civil War and their society was devoted to doing secret acts of charity and kindness. Each member had a key which is passed down through their families to this day.
Thanks man !!! A true lesson of history !!! The past must be remembered !!!
I really love this vlog. I love walking through old cemeteries and admiring the tombs and tombstones. I have always wanted to go here.
I love it, too! Beautiful places!
on y a tous notre place, mais il ne faut pas être pressé d'y habiter !....
Jodi Hepler sane!
Same*
I love walking through them too. Wherever we go on vacation I visit a cemetery. You should see some of the cemeteries in Ireland with the beautiful Celtic cross headstones. They are beautiful but Lafayette is fascinating.
Really fine quality film. Cemeteries with such a history. I kept pausing video to read the inscriptions.
Karen, thank you so much! I appreciate the kind words. :)
I have a great grandmother interred in a tomb in this cemetery as well as other family from her time.
Oh wow!!
Do you mind me asking .. how do you feel about that? Like, would you wish to be interred there too?
If they use this place for filming they should pay towards the upkeep of the mausoleum
Yeah, I agree! Film companies usually do pay for places they film at, thankfully.
Interesting history. Just too creepy and scary.
Norma Thomas agreed
Norma Thomas: FYI They do pay to film there! You obviously don't know much about Louisiana and it's history! Being that it's the only state below sea level makes it hard to make sure upkeep is done because it gets flooded a lot! My family and many other families do whatever they can to make the cemetery look nice!
If you cleaned it up and whit washed it , you would loose it’s charm and spirit.
This was by far the best video I'd ever watched about this cemetery. U provided history that I'd never heard of about this site. Thank you.
One of the best I've seen done! Thank you for your presentation! 👍❤
Great job! You are so respectful to the graves.
Thank you so much!
Thanks for the tour. God bless you!
You are so respectful of the graves and very knowledgeable on the history of each. Thank you 🙏 💕
Thank you so much! I try :)
Spectacular job, this is so fascinating! And, the facts you shared are amazing! Love it!
Thanks so much!
You have a true talent as a historian and we greatly enjoyed this film!
Double Jeopardy is such a good movie. I’ve been to New Orleans and I loved it everything
I’m from Brazil 🇧🇷
I really could've watched more! Enjoyed, thank you for sharing!!
A fascinating look at this historic cemetery. I really enjoy your work.
Great Movie, love New Orleans History, from Australia
Thanks mate! Welcome aboard :)
Freaking love Nola Cemeteries ❤️ aaaaamazzzing!
There are still a bunch I want to go to!
The BEST cemetery tour I have ever watched TY TY TY
Lynn Marie Sawicke Wow thank you Lynn!!
Fascinating. Thank You.
Thanks for highlighting Commanders Palace. Such history in that place.
I do plan on doing something featuring that amazing place :)
Doing research on styles of crypts and mausoleums, and this has been both informative and super helpful. Thanks!
That's awesome! Thank you!
Makes me homesick. Great film!
Just discovered your channel. What a great clip. Thanks for providing such great history of the tombs. That made it all the more interesting.
Thanks so much! Welcome aboard 😊
I got to go to the cemetery yesterday. I really like your video thank you
It looks renovated and great now...thanks for the video..I literally know where all those tombs are..
Great job. I love how you just give the facts on a toomb and just let the camera do the work. Great job!
This is such a well done video. Very clean and interesting! Loved it!
Thank you very much!
Thank you for sharing another amazing video! I love the way you do them and give us a history lesson in each one! I really need to visit these beautiful cemeteries and see where my family members are buried! Sad how many people complain about the cemeteries there when they don't even know the history of Louisiana and how old it is! It's sad that the lightning did that back in 1990! I hope the remains are ok! Stay safe! God bless y'all!
The cemeteries here are so beautiful!
I enjoy your videos......your narrative on the history of the tombs is very interesting.
Thank you so much for making this video I have ancestors buried and laugh I have cemetery and it was nice to take a visit
Did you see any of their tombs in the video? If so, let me know which ones. Or I could always go back and look for them.
I just found your channel today, so im binge watching now. Great job & love the shades!😎
Awesome!! And thank ya!
I love this...another place I will never see by traveling to it that you allowed me to see through your camera...thanks
Great video. Well done, thank you.
Awesome thanks for sharing this video with us all ✌🏻☕️💯 Hopefully lots of people see this for it’s soo important to share historical facts
Loved your video. Thanks for posting!
Thanks so much!!
Me and my friend visited Nola In 2019 November and we had a tour guide and I loved the history of Lafayette cemetery
Really enjoy your work. I was there in the year 2000 with my husband and it is quite an experience in person. The Garden District was so beautiful. Coming from Nebraska we were awed. We have nothing like that here.
Thank you so much! You should definitely come back soon!
Love this video. Just looked at your channel. This is just what I needed. I'm making a D&D city inspired by New Orleans. Glad I can learn more about the city :)
Oh that sounds cool! Thank you!
Very educational video!! My son and I went to Commander’s Palace 1 year ago. We wanted to visit the cemetery, but it was closed to due restoration. This video just made it possible for me to see it. Maybe we will go and visit it in a few years from now. Thank you for your time and the educational information for the movie/video productions made there!!
I've never eaten at Commander's... Lol! I need to one of these days. I'm glad you were able to visit the cemetery virtually at least.
I really enjoyed this video. Thanks 🙂💗
I really love your video, keep up the good work
Ultimate Ruffles Thank you! More to come ;)
Noladeej, I love your videos and of course I love New Orleans.
Thank you!!
Thank you for the tour and informative video on this cemetery. I like that included the mentally ill and disability.
Thank you for checking it out!
I really want to explore this cemetery in person.
You should! It's pretty amazing!
You should explore it. The cemetery is really interesting. I also explored other cemeteries in New Orleans and my husband thought it was creepy but I enjoyed it.
It is closed to the public indefinitely.
@@seanchick5918 Aw, man. Did they close it recently or what?
Your "Theme Music" reminds me of the F.E.A.R 2 School video on going to the Nurses Station lol!
wow. ..just amazing. ..
It's one of the more interesting cemeteries here in New Orleans, that's for sure! There is another one I want to hit soon, it's probably the most famous and oldest one here.
The best video ever. HD video.
A very interesting and great video.
Peaceful 🎶 music through the video and at the end it starts blasting
good. 😁
I may have been here but since it has been in so may movies I cannot be sure, But my Deja Vu bells were ringing loud and clear. Either way, it is an amazing Cemetery.
Love the cemeteries in NOLA. Aah Commanders Palace. Loved walking #1 and #2. Part of the charm of a old south city. Beautiful and peaceful. NOLA has a special vibe. I have two Live Oaks in my yard, massive like those. God forbid it should ever fall.
That cast iron tomb ain’t going no where. Even in Katrina.
Thank you for makeing this. Due to covid I wasn only alowed to enter the 3 grave yard. It was really pretty so I was not mad.
Did you knock before you entered? Be sure to exit walking backwards. That's proper protocal.
where did this custom come from
Love your videos very informative
Thank you Mary :)
Beautiful old cemetery. I've seen it many times, day and night, usually after a long visit to Commander's Palace.
Yeah it's an amazing place!
It is beautifully and gracefully decayed.
Very informative, understandable why school kids would benefit from seeing it. Well done.
Thank you!
One of my favorites in the city. ❤️
Great video! Want to go back to NO to investigate all of their cemeteries
Thanks. Great video
Amazing
Thanks for doing research and telling us histories. That's so much better than when the narrator repeatedly curses, and goes "Weau!" "Insane!" "Something really sketchy happened here!"
Thank you! I appreciate that!
I believe The Vampire Lestat frequented it.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 interview with a vampire.
Came across your video really enjoyed it ma friend
Thank you so much!
One of the most iconic places in New Orleans.
The coping tombs look like one in the film "Eve's Bayou". I didn't really know what they were or how they were built. Thank you for the explanation!
They do! I never thought about that! Very cool
Cool!
Very interesting
You should do Oddfellow's Rest. There is a cast iron coffin with a glass viewing window there. It's pretty neat.
Bearman I'd love to, but I think they aren't allowing people in anymore
Do you happen to remember the name on the tomb, or have a picture of it? It's closed to the public now due to safety precautions (the outside walls are tilting)
j'appelle cela un sous-marin !...
Beautiful stonework.
Agreed
When I die, I hope the afterlife will be like the Garden District with a couple of weekly passes to the French Quarter thrown in for good measure! Such a beautiful and cozy old cemetery with loads of character and characters.
That would be pretty amazing!
cast iron tomb is a "Family Tomb" Many cemeteries all over Dixie have them.
Great video!
Thank you!
It would be nice to get some kinda federal grant, to come in and have it cleaned and restored out of respect.
Federal grant money should benefit the living, not the dead. Beware of people and government when they say "wouldn't it be a great idea to.........". They're about to screw you over in taxes.
Nice video, chumlee.
For me this is art.
Toured there. The smaller tombs are also for families who have had a member buried in a family tomb too recent. They are only allowed to place a body in their family crypt after (I believe its 5 years). They can "rent" a tomb up front until time has expired and then have their family member placed in family crypt.
Kathy Armstrong why do they have to wait 5 years to be placed into the crypt?
@@bellakatherman1477 Maybe to allow proper decomposition, don't want to open up the tomb and smell grandpa's rotting corpse.
They wait a year and 1 day.
@@bellakatherman1477 The wait is a year and a day, but many of the tombs have more than one "slot" for caskets to be placed. So for many it would take 3 deaths in less than a year for "rental" to be necessary.
I had no idea there was an Independent Order of Oddfellows Tomb there. That's cool to know. Some of my family were Oddfellows and Rebecca's.
I am just seeing this. Thank You . That is where I will be entombed with my aunts and uncles who all lived around the corner from there . 4th st. , 6th st. But SHAME on the City of New Orleans for not taking care of it !! Or Lafayette # 2!!! I spoke with the city after Hurricane Katrina and was told that they had gotten money 💵 to repair things that they still have “ NOT “ Done !! Right now as of March 2023 you can’t enter unless you’re a family member “ ONLY “ by appointment! They are doing something with the “ Trees 🌳 “ sounding the cemetery!!! What a JOKE!!!!!
This is the most scariest coincidence I saw this video under a post malon song titled die for me WAHT
So informative. Fascinating. Thanks again.
Thank you!!
The “cheaper” option you showed are called crypts.
Reminds me of Recoleta in Buenos Aires
Just subscribed!😘
If you visit New Orleans definitely take the free walking tours. There are several different ones. All are wonderful. They work for tips and are extremely knowledgeable. Like, did you wonder how so many bodies can fit in a single grave? You’ll find out.
where did the custom of knocking before entering a cemetery & walking out backwards come from. nice to see 1 of your videos again.
I'm not sure.. thank you!
The names and dates should be read, to show that the deceased is not forgotten.. It also helps those of us who are looking for our own families. Thank you for all you are doing.
Yes they shouldn't be forgotten at all. Thank you!!
Well-done! Have you filmed any other cemeteries here?
Oh yeah, quite a few :) I have them all in a playlist if you want to check them out
Great video man 👍
Thanks so much!
@@NOLADEEJ You Welcome!
My family plot is here I have gotten lots of paranormal photos..video and recordings...I love this place....
Nice video. Watching from UNO right now.
Very cool! Thank you!
dude, this is cool
Thank you!
I'm riding down there from central Texas well actually Bourbon Street area but I wanna go out in the outback areas
Tu viens au pére Lachaise cela t'éloignera un peu my friend !..
Nkotb filmed the video in St. Louis cemetery number one. My wife wrote an article about it that shows every location in the cemetery where it was filmed. The article was published in New Orleans.
It's such a cool place!
I wonder if it is the place that was used in the movie Easy Rider when they were tripping on acid or something. Enjoyed the video.
I don't think it's the same place, but I'll look into it.
St. Louis Cemetery #1 was in "Easy Rider." It was shot there without permission. I know that didn't go over well with the Archdiocese!!!😏
Im so fascinated to see the unused tombs I wonder where they are burried now
Yeah, I hope they were moved to be with other family members
NOLADEEJ it would be nice to know hey