New Orleans, LA — Anyone who’s seen the movie Easy Rider will remember the characters’ psychedelic experience in one of New Orleans’ “cities of the dead.” The above-ground crypts were built because a high water table made it difficult to dig graves in the swampy earth.
The graveyard scenes in Easy Rider were filmed, without permission, at St. Louis Cemetery #1 in Tremé.
Today’s photo was shot in Lafayette Cemetery #2, another of the city’s historic cemeteries.
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