#51: the columbarium and the caretaker

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in an attempt to answer the oft-voiced question "what is that thing, anyway?", in this week’s podcast a visit is finally paid to this sumptuous victorian repository for cremated remains, the baroque center of what was once a 167 acre cemetery in the center of san francisco. it’s a spectacular building, but the real discovery comes in the form of its soulful caretaker, mr. emmitt watson.

for further edification:
» the neptune society
» columbarium - sfhistoryencyclopedia.com
» emmitt watson interview - sfgate.com
» mystical connections?
» extispicy - blog entry
» bernard cahill - architect
» columbarium - google maps

musical support:
thanks to 2-RD and 31d1 for this week’s music, courtesy of the podsafe music network.

4 responses to “#51: the columbarium and the caretaker”

John Stone
March 20, 2006 at 11:16 am

Richard,

Another Fabulous episode, it amazes me that you can come up with and write a episode every week, and each new one is better then the previous one.

Thanks for all your hard work.

John Stone

richard
March 30, 2006 at 5:21 am

thanks, john… it’s a passion of mine.

Liz K.
September 15, 2007 at 3:30 pm

Just went there for a visit with a friend, thanks to your podcast…and I thought I’d heard of it all in SF! Now I’ll have to listen to it again. :)

Sunny
April 17, 2009 at 11:17 pm

I was looking for more information about this location before touring it. I’m so glad that I discovered this Podcast about about the Columbarium and it’s caretaker; this was excellent.

Thank you very much.

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