I love the scenic beauty of Savannah Georgia, and all the wonderful old architecture. They claim that Savannah is one of the most haunted places in America. Your lovely video has inspired me to rewatch the movie. Thanks for sharing this with us Steve, peace...
Scenic cemetery. I luv that movie and I remember the Georgia bulldogs in the movie. Clint’s real daughter sings in the movie. Thanks for telling us about this mysterious story.👍
I made a train trip out to Savannah in 1998. Loved the book and my trip out to Savannah. The movie is good but edited to include things that are part of Savannah history but not necessarily related to the story. Thanks for showing Danny's final resting place. I want to see where Jim is laid to rest. Thanks again for your video.
You did it again Steve this was not only sad but very interesting I don’t know how you do it but keep on good Job Steve and there is some thing I don’t think I’ve ever told you I’m a medium I talk to dead people I had for a long long time good job Steve
your vlogs always accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative that's why they are so great. Knocked it out of the park with this one. thanks Steve
Thanks Steve for sharing the memories ahe do such excellent and you are postive and respectful when sharing these people stories, thanks again and i enjoyed this video.
Love Johnny Mercer and Savannah GA! I've been to Bonaventure Cemetery. Did you tour the Mercer House? So beautiful inside with amazing oil paintings some as large as 8 ft mounted on the walls! The house is privately owned by a family who reside in a section not open to the public. I read the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, never seen the film. Book is amazing! 😃
Unfortunately, I was there too early in the morning, before they were open and had so many other places to visit that day. But loved seeing the outside and the neighborhood!
I watched the movie and also read the book. FYI, Lady Chabli has an audiobook that she narrates titled Hiding My Candy that I’m betting is just as colorful as she is. Unfortunately she passed away in 2016. Thanks for another great vlog.
Sad but interesting story Steve. I hope to see this movie one day, hopefully it will come onto Netflix at some point and if it's produced by Clint Eastwood, it has to be good. Thanks for sharing ☺
@@theretiredlifewithsteve Fingers crossed. I can watch it on Amazon Prime, but they want you to pay for it, which I won't do when I already pay a subscription every month, so the wait goes on
As a native Georgian, I have visited Savannah numerous times. Many of those visits included the Mercer-Williams home. Many years ago, I stood on the very spot on which Danny died. Late March is the best time to visit Bonaventure as the gigantic purple azaleas which cover the property are in full bloom. Spectacular!!!!
Morning Steve 🙋♂️🌾🌿🍁🌤, oh my goodness this is a 😎 vlog! I know most All those songs. But hey we grew up in the best ERA/decades IMHO. thanks Steve 😘🐦🇨🇦
Fascinating. I haven't seen this movie nor the book. Such beautiful area though and certainly have heard most of those songs by Johnny Mercer! Thanks for the video.
My home town Steve I never get tired of hearing about Midnight in the garden of good and evil I loved the movie and the book thank you Steve safe trip back home
Hi Steve ! Savannah is a beautiful city ! Love the old historical buildings! The cemetery is so beautiful ,with monuments and huge trees ! A great place to film movies ! Thanks again for all your great vlogs! Take care ,have fun ! Deborah
The Minerva quote is really appropriate for the upcoming Halloween season: "To understand the living, you got to commune with the dead." The events of the book/movie made me think of the Sir Walter Scott quote: "Oh what a tangled web we weave/When first we practice to deceive."
Great movie and thank you for covering this so well. Included some things even I didn’t know. and, yes, I would love to see a documentary on The Lady Chablis - caught her show once at a local club.
Beautiful! I enjoyed both the book and movie. I have a Birdgirl statue that I put on my patio every year. Its my understanding that the original was removed from the cemetery years ago due to increased tourist traffic after the movie was released. Thanks again for another interesting visit!
Hi Becky, yes they removed it and it's now in a museum in Savannah. I didn't have time to go and see it, but the cemetery visit was really interesting, even without the statue. Although it would have been better with it. :-)
When I lived in Atlanta, I went to Savannah to see these same locations. It's been several years. Thanks for bringing back the fond memories that I had through this wonderful video!!
Hello Steve and Jim! Thank you for this awesome historical cemetery visit! We moved to CO from NC; I was stationed there for 15 years on my last tour in the military. We LOVED visiting Charleston and Savannah! I have been to this cemetery, of course, as it was a great movie. So much history and tons of really neat anecdotes! I think we have the movie on vcr hehehehe. I will have to revisit how to even get that on our tv again hehehe. Safe travels! Awesome history class, Steve…..thank you so much!
How lucky that you lived in the area. I loved Savannah and wish I had had more time to explore. Luckily we saved our VCR lol. :-) It's been so long since we've used it, though, that it's probably dead. :-)
Loved this video but I will tell you what: I read the book and just crazy loved it! I didn't even hear about a movie! I was traveling non-stop with my job back then. Now I need to find the movie, but where?
I just saw it on tv the other day. I just searched and it was on one of the channels like AMC. I recorded it and watched it later. Hope you find it. You can also pay to watch it on Amazon, if it's not on tv for free.
This was one of my favorite book to read. The movie is really good. You learn so much about people and what people will do for their needs. Mandy, Clint Eastwood's daughter portrayed John Cusack's love interest in the movie.
Thanks for sharing, Steve! I was there in November 2021, not too long before you were. I haven’t read the book or seen the movie, but I did go to the graves of Johnny Mercer and Conrad Aiken. Among my other stops in Savannah was the square where the bench was situated in Forrest Gump.
Hi Kurt, darn, I missed seeing the bench, but I did visit Casimir Pulaski's grave, which is across the street from the Mercer mansion. Such a beautiful neighborhood. Glad you got to Savannah too.
Another informative story. Steve you do excellent news & updates. At my age, I'm unable to get around to visit these historical locations. Thank you Steve
Thanks! I absolutely loved the book. The movie was OK. I’m a boomer so I knew all of those song titles, lol. Thank you for sharing this. I enjoy your videos so much. 🙏🏻🥰
I'm really happy to hear that Sandi. And I'm like you, the movies never live up to the books. Thanks, again, for the very kind donations! They are very appreciated! :-)
Thank you, Steve!❤️ about 10 years ago, I was on a road trip with some friends to Savannah and we visited the Bonaventure Cemetery. A beautiful place. I never read the book or saw the movie, or for that matter, knew what the story was about, but I remember the book being advertised when it came out. Thanks for the interesting info.
Thanks guys. It's all provided free from RUclips for creators to use. Do a little search on the back end of your channel and you'll find it. It's in the same section where you upload your videos. They have thousands of amazing royalty free music clips to select from.
New subscriber sends greetings from Tucson, Arizona. I knew Jimmy Williams and had an unremarkable 'affair' with him in the mid-1960's, in the townhouse he had moved a block from the Pirate's Cove.
If you get a chance look up Johny Mercer's ancestry. His I think third or fourth great grandfather was a famous Revolutionary War general named Hugh Mercer
Hey Steve! Dropped by to tell you those fraud people are back on your other channel. 😠 😡 I messaged you as soon as I got their message. You're too nice of a guy for me not to tell this to. I got the message on celebrities burried at home. This was a very good video over here. Glad I watched it! 💕 🙏
Thanks Marlene. I noticed all the scam emails early this morning. There were about 100 that I had to delete. Hopefully none of my viewers fall for these scams. They are never ending. Different ones like this pop up nearly every day. :-(
@@theretiredlifewithsteve I'm glad you've got a hand on it. Every day? Lucky you! Lucky RUclipsrs. Just how you wanted to spend Sunday! You and Jim have a nice week. ❤️
In the book it mentioned Danny thought he would have a giant headstone in Bonaventure cemetery if he died in Mercer house... He did get either. But in a strange way he got his wish, since his simple headstone would actually be the biggest draw to the neighboring Greenwich cemetery.
@@theretiredlifewithsteve my pleasure. I am a history nut, amateur archeologist and I grew up in the SF Bay area (Really the San Jose Bay Area, but besides Dionne Warwick and tech bros no one thinks about us), so I have a bit of a fascination with graves and cemeteries especially since San Francisco was covered in them. And when I came across your videos looking up more info about the true events from the book and film, I decided to take a look. If you are interested in other graves, I got one for you. She's not really a LGBT icon, but if you aren't familiar with her and your ever back in Colma, look up Big Alma Spreckels... The God Mother of San Francisco. She was a bit of a wild woman and brought fine art to San Francisco. She built the Palace of Fine Arts, the Legion of Honor and other museums. Coined the phrase "Sugar daddy", her husband was the heir to the Spreckels sugar fortune, and the popular myth is that's her on top of the Union Square plinth... Besides Charles Howard, she is one of my favorite San Franciscans because to me she represents the old SF spirit (which i desperately miss, so don't get me started on modern sf transplant culture lol). Speaking of the Legion of Honor, here's a creepy cemetery story... When they moved the cemeteries out of San Francisco to Colma, a lot of the graves just had the stones moved, not the bodies and many of those bodies were dumped in mass graves under Lincoln Park, where the Legion of Honor sits today. There could be as many as 10,000 bodies under the park... So, in a way, Big Alma's Legion of Honor is one of the nicest and most art filled tomb stones in the word... But it's not the only one in San Francisco... The other is the Asian art museum in the civic center... But that story involves body snatching, turning human remains into soap and selling the soap to unsuspecting San Franciscans... lol Sorry I went off on a tangent.
No Mercer ever lived in Mercer house, it was built For Johnny Mercers great grandfather but he nor Johnny ever lived in it, and Before anyone comes at me Ive lived in Savannah all of my 56 years
Yeah, I'll probably be changing it again soon too. I was going to delete it--it's just too difficult to have two channels--but I may keep it to upload a video every now and then. Going forward I will be focusing mostly on the other channel.
I don’t believe Johnny Mercer ever lived in the famous Mercer house in Savannah I believe it was owned by and built by General Mercer who sold it unfinished in 1868
@@theretiredlifewithsteve Johnny Mercer was the great great grandson of General Mercer who originally built the mansion but sold it unfinished in 1868. None of the Mercer family ever lived in the mansion
Not exactly natural causes to have 3 bullets pumped into you and a staged crime scene. Jurors got tired,Jim got old. Good thing he died before he damaged more young people
Nicely done, I really liked the book and had totally forgotten it was a true story. Thanks for making the characters real again. Cheers and best wishes. 🎶🦘
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I love the scenic beauty of Savannah Georgia, and all the wonderful old architecture. They claim that Savannah is one of the most haunted places in America.
Your lovely video has inspired me to rewatch the movie. Thanks for sharing this with us Steve, peace...
I just watched it again the other day. Great movie and a great city!
I lived in 2 houses that had spirits dwelling within.
Scenic cemetery. I luv that movie and I remember the Georgia bulldogs in the movie. Clint’s real daughter sings in the movie. Thanks for telling us about this mysterious story.👍
You have a good memory. I just watched it again a few days ago. Has really held up well.
Love that movie ,its on my bucket list too
I loved the movie, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
I made a train trip out to Savannah in 1998. Loved the book and my trip out to Savannah. The movie is good but edited to include things that are part of Savannah history but not necessarily related to the story. Thanks for showing Danny's final resting place. I want to see where Jim is laid to rest. Thanks again for your video.
I loved the city too Troy. I was really surprised that Williams wasn't buried at Bonaventure.
You did it again Steve this was not only sad but very interesting I don’t know how you do it but keep on good Job Steve and there is some thing I don’t think I’ve ever told you I’m a medium I talk to dead people I had for a long long time good job Steve
Hi Thomas, you must be very special to have that extra sense and ability. Hopefully all of your encounters are good ones.
@@theretiredlifewithsteve For the most part Steve yes I’ve been doing it since 1985 and it’s been fun and interesting
So, you're a medium.
I'm a large; but not an extra large.
Ba da Dum.
your vlogs always accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative that's why they are so great. Knocked it out of the park with this one. thanks Steve
Thanks Dana, I definitely try to do that. That's also why I have very few views and subsribers, lol. Most viewers prefer the other way around. :-)
I had a good friend who was a Savannah native, and is buried in Bonaventure Cemetery. I didn't know what a beautiful place it is.
Wow, he's in a very historic place in very good company!
How incredibly beautiful❤
Thanks Steve for sharing the memories ahe do such excellent and you are postive and respectful when sharing these people stories, thanks again and i enjoyed this video.
Thank you Syreeta!
Thank you for shining the light!
☮️🌼🐝safe
Love Johnny Mercer and Savannah GA! I've been to Bonaventure Cemetery. Did you tour the Mercer House? So beautiful inside with amazing oil paintings some as large as 8 ft mounted on the walls! The house is privately owned by a family who reside in a section not open to the public. I read the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, never seen the film. Book is amazing! 😃
Unfortunately, I was there too early in the morning, before they were open and had so many other places to visit that day. But loved seeing the outside and the neighborhood!
I watched the movie and also read the book. FYI, Lady Chabli has an audiobook that she narrates titled Hiding My Candy that I’m betting is just as colorful as she is. Unfortunately she passed away in 2016. Thanks for another great vlog.
LOL, thanks for sharing that Peggy. I wish she had a final resting place to visit.
Sad but interesting story Steve. I hope to see this movie one day, hopefully it will come onto Netflix at some point and if it's produced by Clint Eastwood, it has to be good. Thanks for sharing ☺
I just watched it again on tv the other day. I don't think it was Netflix though. Hopefully you can find and watch it.
@@theretiredlifewithsteve Fingers crossed. I can watch it on Amazon Prime, but they want you to pay for it, which I won't do when I already pay a subscription every month, so the wait goes on
So very cool!!!
Such a good movie. Thanks for the grave site tour
As a native Georgian, I have visited Savannah numerous times. Many of those visits included the Mercer-Williams home. Many years ago, I stood on the very spot on which Danny died.
Late March is the best time to visit Bonaventure as the gigantic purple azaleas which cover the property are in full bloom. Spectacular!!!!
That sounds awesome. Thank you for sharing with us Steven! 😊👍
Morning Steve 🙋♂️🌾🌿🍁🌤, oh my goodness this is a 😎 vlog! I know most All those songs. But hey we grew up in the best ERA/decades IMHO. thanks Steve 😘🐦🇨🇦
We sure did Debsza!
Steve you are becoming so much better close to the level of Hollywood graveyard, keep up the great work buddy
Thanks BC!
What a beautiful cemetery! My brother always said that Savannah was a lovely city. Maybe someday I can visit. Thanks, Steve!
I loved it. I hope you get to visit too.
It’s on my bucket list too!!
I hope you get there Allison!
Fascinating. I haven't seen this movie nor the book. Such beautiful area though and certainly have heard most of those songs by Johnny Mercer! Thanks for the video.
My home town Steve I never get tired of hearing about Midnight in the garden of good and evil I loved the movie and the book thank you Steve safe trip back home
It's an awesome city. Lucky you Angelina! :-)
I haven’t seen the movie or heard about this story. Thanks Steve.
Thank you for sharing very interesting I never seen that movie but I will try to find it and watch it ☺️
Thoroughly enjoyed this one and I thank you so much!
Glad you enjoyed it Cathy!
Love that beautiful cemetery, thanks Steve for taking us along.
Thanks for coming along Monika!
It is a very beautiful place....nicely done Steve.
Thanks Anna!
One of my favorite movies; eagerly await your Lady Chablis video. She was so intriguing and beautiful. And hysterical.
I agree Debi!
Hi Steve ! Savannah is a beautiful city ! Love the old historical buildings! The cemetery is so beautiful ,with monuments and huge trees ! A great place to film movies ! Thanks again for all your great vlogs! Take care ,have fun ! Deborah
I agree Deborah, it's amazing!
The Minerva quote is really appropriate for the upcoming Halloween season:
"To understand the living, you got to commune with the dead."
The events of the book/movie made me think of the Sir Walter Scott quote:
"Oh what a tangled web we weave/When first we practice to deceive."
Exactly!
@@theretiredlifewithsteve Do you plan to visit any graveyards on Halloween or All Saints Day?
Take care Steve and I enjoyed the video I love your channel you take care and God bless
Thank you sherron!
@@theretiredlifewithsteve you're welcome have a blessed day
I hope you enjoyed your visit to GA. I am in North Ga, Savannah is lovely.
I sure did belle!
Beautiful memorial garden🪦🧡
Very interesting, Steve
Kindest regards
DJ from the UK
Glad you enjoyed it DJ
Great movie and thank you for covering this so well. Included some things even I didn’t know. and, yes, I would love to see a documentary on The Lady Chablis - caught her show once at a local club.
How cool that you got to see her live Thomas. Just like in the movie.
Very Cool video Steve 👏👏🙏🙏
Thanks Runar 👍
Steve great video as always
Thanks Jazzy 👍
@@theretiredlifewithsteve your welcome can't wait for the next one
Beautiful! I enjoyed both the book and movie. I have a Birdgirl statue that I put on my patio every year. Its my understanding that the original was removed from the cemetery years ago due to increased tourist traffic after the movie was released. Thanks again for another interesting visit!
Hi Becky, yes they removed it and it's now in a museum in Savannah. I didn't have time to go and see it, but the cemetery visit was really interesting, even without the statue. Although it would have been better with it. :-)
When I lived in Atlanta, I went to Savannah to see these same locations. It's been several years. Thanks for bringing back the fond memories that I had through this wonderful video!!
Glad you enjoyed it and glad you were there too FA!
Hello Steve and Jim! Thank you for this awesome historical cemetery visit! We moved to CO from NC; I was stationed there for 15 years on my last tour in the military. We LOVED visiting Charleston and Savannah! I have been to this cemetery, of course, as it was a great movie. So much history and tons of really neat anecdotes! I think we have the movie on vcr hehehehe. I will have to revisit how to even get that on our tv again hehehe. Safe travels!
Awesome history class, Steve…..thank you so much!
How lucky that you lived in the area. I loved Savannah and wish I had had more time to explore. Luckily we saved our VCR lol. :-) It's been so long since we've used it, though, that it's probably dead. :-)
You always have such interesting facts in your videos. Thanks for your video! 😃
Thanks Renee. Glad you like them!
Thanks so much for sharing! 😊
Thanks for watching Debbie!
It's a shame that Mr Mercers plot is so grubby , it deserves a good cleaning , once again Bravo for a intriguing video 👏👏👏👏🙂
Most of the cemetery is dirt. Not a lot of grass, but I agree.
Love this! I would love to live in Savannah😊 One of my fav movies too!
Loved this video but I will tell you what: I read the book and just crazy loved it! I didn't even hear about a movie! I was traveling non-stop with my job back then. Now I need to find the movie, but where?
I just saw it on tv the other day. I just searched and it was on one of the channels like AMC. I recorded it and watched it later. Hope you find it. You can also pay to watch it on Amazon, if it's not on tv for free.
This was top notch. Sad and interesting tour today. Great book and movie! Thanks, Steve! Happy Saturday and stay safe, my friend. 😊
Thanks Leesa and you too!
Great video! I love so many of those Johnny Mercer songs. My dad was a huge fan of them and that got me to love them as well.
Me too Deb!
Nice video showcasing Savanah’s beauty. I live here and I have yet to visit Danny’s grave, maybe I’ll do that someday soon.
I hope you do Cameron. You live in a beautiful city!
This was one of my favorite book to read. The movie is really good. You learn so much about people and what people will do for their needs. Mandy, Clint Eastwood's daughter portrayed John Cusack's love interest in the movie.
Thanks for sharing, Steve! I was there in November 2021, not too long before you were. I haven’t read the book or seen the movie, but I did go to the graves of Johnny Mercer and Conrad Aiken. Among my other stops in Savannah was the square where the bench was situated in Forrest Gump.
Hi Kurt, darn, I missed seeing the bench, but I did visit Casimir Pulaski's grave, which is across the street from the Mercer mansion. Such a beautiful neighborhood. Glad you got to Savannah too.
Steve, thank you so very much for the tour it was Beautiful ❤️
Glad you enjoyed it user! 😎👍
I never knew about this movie! I want to see it. The home was gorgeous. At one time I lived in Augusta, Ga. Thank you Steve!
I was surprised how much I enjoyed my visit to Georgia. Thanks for sharing Karen!
Loved the book and the movie🙏🏻
I LOVE savannah and love the book and movie. It’s one of my very favorites. The Lady Chablis was a hoot and a half.
Me too and so true Donna :-)
Another informative story. Steve you do excellent news & updates. At my age, I'm unable to get around to visit these historical locations. Thank you Steve
Thank Betty. Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks! I absolutely loved the book. The movie was OK. I’m a boomer so I knew all of those song titles, lol. Thank you for sharing this. I enjoy your videos so much. 🙏🏻🥰
I'm really happy to hear that Sandi. And I'm like you, the movies never live up to the books. Thanks, again, for the very kind donations! They are very appreciated! :-)
Whst a interesting, but sad story, may Danny Rest in Peace..Great job as always Steve!
Thanks Colleen!
I haven't seen that movie. Now I will!
Definitely worth it Timothy!
I just checked & the film has a 51% on rotten tomatoes, it even got a dis from Rodger Ebert.
Umm.
Didn't see the movie, but did read the book
Awesome video. Patiently waiting for the next one. God Bless & take care.
Thanks shannon 👍
@@theretiredlifewithsteve yvw!!! My Friend.
What a fine podcast
Thanks A.D.
Love your vlogs! This one was particularly interesting,also love that movie,have also visited Savannah,a very beautiful city
Thanks so much Betsy!
Great job Steve! I had never read the book or seen the movie. I will have to do that now.
It's a really enjoyable movie. Hope you get to see it Kirsten!
@@theretiredlifewithsteve 😊
great video sir
Thanks brandon!
Thank you, Steve!❤️ about 10 years ago, I was on a road trip with some friends to Savannah and we visited the Bonaventure Cemetery. A beautiful place. I never read the book or saw the movie, or for that matter, knew what the story was about, but I remember the book being advertised when it came out. Thanks for the interesting info.
Glad you got to visit too, Palms!
This was an awesome video. Loved the music too. Where did you get it? TIA.
Thanks guys. It's all provided free from RUclips for creators to use. Do a little search on the back end of your channel and you'll find it. It's in the same section where you upload your videos. They have thousands of amazing royalty free music clips to select from.
I have the movie on DVD and I love it
The book was great.
Awesome video 👍☺️ You mentioned KD Lang, I have such a big crush on her
She has an amazing voice!
New subscriber sends greetings from Tucson, Arizona.
I knew Jimmy Williams and had an unremarkable 'affair' with him in the mid-1960's,
in the townhouse he had moved a block from the Pirate's Cove.
Wow, what a small world! 👍
If you get a chance look up Johny Mercer's ancestry. His I think third or fourth great grandfather was a famous Revolutionary War general named Hugh Mercer
Yes, amazing history in his family. Thanks Chad!
Hey Steve! Dropped by to tell you those fraud people are back on your other channel. 😠 😡 I messaged you as soon as I got their message. You're too nice of a guy for me not to tell this to.
I got the message on celebrities burried at home. This was a very good video over here. Glad I watched it! 💕 🙏
Thanks Marlene. I noticed all the scam emails early this morning. There were about 100 that I had to delete. Hopefully none of my viewers fall for these scams. They are never ending. Different ones like this pop up nearly every day. :-(
@@theretiredlifewithsteve I'm glad you've got a hand on it. Every day? Lucky you! Lucky RUclipsrs. Just how you wanted to spend Sunday! You and Jim have a nice week. ❤️
Did you see the movie Steve I loved it it is a beautiful place
Yes, when it first came out and again the other day. It's great!
In the book it mentioned Danny thought he would have a giant headstone in Bonaventure cemetery if he died in Mercer house... He did get either.
But in a strange way he got his wish, since his simple headstone would actually be the biggest draw to the neighboring Greenwich cemetery.
I didn't know that PB. Thanks for sharing that and you are right.
@@theretiredlifewithsteve my pleasure.
I am a history nut, amateur archeologist and I grew up in the SF Bay area (Really the San Jose Bay Area, but besides Dionne Warwick and tech bros no one thinks about us), so I have a bit of a fascination with graves and cemeteries especially since San Francisco was covered in them. And when I came across your videos looking up more info about the true events from the book and film, I decided to take a look.
If you are interested in other graves, I got one for you. She's not really a LGBT icon, but if you aren't familiar with her and your ever back in Colma, look up Big Alma Spreckels... The God Mother of San Francisco. She was a bit of a wild woman and brought fine art to San Francisco. She built the Palace of Fine Arts, the Legion of Honor and other museums. Coined the phrase "Sugar daddy", her husband was the heir to the Spreckels sugar fortune, and the popular myth is that's her on top of the Union Square plinth... Besides Charles Howard, she is one of my favorite San Franciscans because to me she represents the old SF spirit (which i desperately miss, so don't get me started on modern sf transplant culture lol).
Speaking of the Legion of Honor, here's a creepy cemetery story... When they moved the cemeteries out of San Francisco to Colma, a lot of the graves just had the stones moved, not the bodies and many of those bodies were dumped in mass graves under Lincoln Park, where the Legion of Honor sits today. There could be as many as 10,000 bodies under the park... So, in a way, Big Alma's Legion of Honor is one of the nicest and most art filled tomb stones in the word...
But it's not the only one in San Francisco... The other is the Asian art museum in the civic center... But that story involves body snatching, turning human remains into soap and selling the soap to unsuspecting San Franciscans... lol
Sorry I went off on a tangent.
we were there just after the move came out
Glad you were there too ernest!
The mosquito in there are lethal! Make sure to first yourself down
I actually seen the movie, the man that shot the escort at the end got was coming to him. That cementary is supposed to be the most haunted
Steve thanks Savannah is the most Haunted city in the USA
It sure seems like it, but in a good way. :-)
Like the book and the movie but book is totally different from the movie but. It was good
I always hate the movies if I read the book first, lol. :-O
Book is fantastic. So is movie
So sad.
No Mercer ever lived in Mercer house, it was built For Johnny Mercers great grandfather but he nor Johnny ever lived in it, and Before anyone comes at me Ive lived in Savannah all of my 56 years
Certainly Johnny Mercer was a genius for writing all those great hits. Not familiar with the movie.
I agree Arleen and the movie is playing on one of the tv stations right now. Hopefully you get to see it.
Book hit a record for the NY Times Best Seller list
You changed your channel name?
Hey peace I didn't know you watch Steve he is so amazing
@@Ms.HarmonyJ Yes we have mentioned it before lol
@@Ms.HarmonyJ I adore h Steve his calming voice
Same here
Yeah, I'll probably be changing it again soon too. I was going to delete it--it's just too difficult to have two channels--but I may keep it to upload a video every now and then. Going forward I will be focusing mostly on the other channel.
isn't there a couple of politicians and a former vice president there in Savannah?
Probably, but I just didn't have time to visit everyone. :-(
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The murder victim.
Wasn't the case ruled self-defense?
He did get away with it, but you have to see the movie to know why.
@@theretiredlifewithsteve not for long. Died at the murder scene 7 months later
I don’t believe Johnny Mercer ever lived in the famous Mercer house in Savannah I believe it was owned by and built by General Mercer who sold it unfinished in 1868
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@@theretiredlifewithsteve Johnny Mercer was the great great grandson of General Mercer who originally built the mansion but sold it unfinished in 1868. None of the Mercer family ever lived in the mansion
Hey! You could have stayed with me and my Dad. Just 90 minutes south.
Oh wow, I had no idea you are so close. I loved Savannah and that part of the country. Thanks Saykhel!
KD Lang is a Canadian twanger
Your comments are turned off on new Christmas video!
Thanks for letting me know PW. I didn't turn them off. I'll have to see what happened and see if I can turn them on. Appreciate it!
I just turned them on. For some reason RUclips had them turned off. I always have them on. Thanks again!
@@theretiredlifewithsteve YW it’s been happening all over RUclips!🥰
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Hansford wasn’t a murder victim if Williams was cleared.
Sounds like you didn't watch the entire video.
@@theretiredlifewithsteve I did, but it doesn’t change that you said he was a murder victim at the start.
Not exactly natural causes to have 3 bullets pumped into you and a staged crime scene. Jurors got tired,Jim got old. Good thing he died before he damaged more young people
Danny wasn't gay. He had a girlfriend. He was with Jim for the money
Thanks Marie. I thought I mentioned in the video that he was an escort for both men and women. Did you know him personally?
Nicely done, I really liked the book and had totally forgotten it was a true story. Thanks for making the characters real again. Cheers and best wishes. 🎶🦘
Thanks Fred!