5 Years Ago: The George Reeves Tour

Above, George Reeves's urn. Click on image to see larger.

Five years ago today, a group of Adventures of Superman/George Reeves fans toured around Los Angeles to visit some of the sites connected with Reeves. I was the official unofficial tour guide.

Many prominent fans such as Jim Nolt, Lou Koza, Carl Glass and others were in town for Noel Neill's 85th birthday party held the day before in Studio City. Since it was such a rare occasion to have everyone in one place, a tour was planned for the next day.

Fans gathered the morning of November 27, 2005 at the lobby and restaurant of the Beverly Garland Holiday Inn. Following breakfast, a caravan of carloads of fans left the hotel towards Pasadena.



The first stop was at George Reeves's boyhood home (above). At first, we had a little difficulty as the address given in a book did not match the house. The actual house was a few doors away. Luckily, there was a photo of the house in the book.

We spent about a half hour at the house taking pictures of the home and group photos. From there, we headed to the Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum to pay our respects at the final resting place of George Reeves. There are two mausoleums at the cemetery, and Reeves is in the Pasadena Mausoleum.

Above, Armand with the urn of George Reeves.

From there, we then headed for Beverly Hills to see the final home of George Reeves in Benedict Canyon. This was the last stop of the tour. The house looks pretty much as it did on the fateful morning of June 16, 1959 when Reeves was found dead in his bedroom with a gunshot wound in his head.

Above, Reeves's house in Benedict Canyon.

Carl Glass has an excellent write-up of the tour with lots of photos at his website, Glasshouse Presents. To view it, go here.

Five years sure went by fast!