TDW 1481 - James Dean Grave Site - TheDailyWoo Archive

0:06 Welcome everyone. Adam the

0:06 Woo

0:27 here.

0:28 That was intense.

0:30 You ever had this orange crush in a

0:31 bottle? I saw this. I just had to get

0:34 one. But you can't crush an orange crush

0:37 unless you want to decapitate your

0:39 finger regions. It's my second channel.

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0:58 Check out that old barn. Half of it

0:58 standing, the other half decomposing.

1:05 Fair Mount, Indiana. Straight ahead.

1:05 When you think of pop culture icons, you

1:08 usually think of three key people. Let's

1:10 say you go to Hollywood Boulevard and

1:12 you go in those little gift shops, there

1:14 are always an exorbitant amount of

1:17 photos of Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, and

1:21 James Dean. And even though James Dean

1:24 has become this massive icon of pop

1:27 culture,

1:29 he was raised and his hometown is right

1:32 here in Indiana.

1:35 Why is there a tornado siren going off?

1:38 That would not be fun.

1:48 Scared me for a second. My gosh. It's

1:48 pretty cool. They have a little bar here

1:50 on the corner called Giant. Of course,

1:52 named after one of the three James Dean

1:55 movies. And that famous shot of James

1:57 Dean standing was right over here on the

1:59 sidewalk. And in the background, you see

2:01 the Fair Mount Bank. I was here about 3

2:03 or four years ago when I did a main

2:04 channel video on the Adam the Woo

2:06 channel. Just search James Dean, Adam

2:08 the Woo, and you can see every single

2:10 spot from every photograph where James

2:13 Dean history is here in town. The last

2:15 time I was here, I was in such a rush

2:16 that I did not get a chance to really

2:18 spend much time at the museums here in

2:20 town. And I want to do that now.

2:32 Okay, my review on this museum.

2:32 Absolutely amazing. Upstairs they have a

2:35 lot of like artifacts from the town

2:36 itself. But then down below they have a

2:39 whole section dedicated to Jim Davis and

2:42 Garfield who is also from here in

2:44 Fairmont. But down on the bottom floor

2:46 there is tons of James Dean artifacts,

2:50 stuff he owned, stuff from his movies.

2:53 They even had the monkey and the knives

2:55 from Rebel Without a Cause that

2:57 completely blew my mind. as well as the

3:00 guard railing from the mansion from the

3:03 movie Giant and then other things, other

3:05 little things he had in his possession

3:07 as he was growing up and his family had.

3:10 Super cool. If you're ever in Fairmont,

3:12 check out that museum. Totally worth

3:15 checking out. The back alleys of James

3:17 Dean Stomping Grounds.

3:20 There's another museum here, too. The

3:22 James Dean Gallery, Museum, and Gift

3:25 Shop. You're so handsome, James. I know.

3:38 There's a picture of his old high school

3:38 that they tore down a few years ago. I

3:41 may or may not have snuck in the

3:43 abandoned building when I was here last

3:45 time. This is a recreation of the

3:47 intersection where James Dean died in

3:50 California. And that would be James

3:52 Dean's car right there.

3:56 Of

3:59 course, a recreation of the famous scene

4:00 from Rebel Without a Cause when James

4:02 Dean is jumping over the fence to talk

4:06 to Natalie Wood.

4:09 Oh, according to this, it's the original

4:11 gate.

4:13 Holy cow. It's the original gate from

4:16 Los Angeles right here. Wow. Look at

4:19 that. No way. Now that's cool. When East

4:23 of Eden was premiering, the grocery bags

4:26 here in town displayed an advertisement

4:29 for the film. How cool is that? That is

4:32 small town life right there. Proud of

4:34 their favorite son. And I think it's

4:37 necessary to wear sunglasses inside. Is

4:40 this what James Dean

4:43 What was that? This James Dean mask.

4:46 It's kind of terrifying. Here's a

4:48 newspaper article. And that's the spot I

4:50 was at earlier. See, there's the bank

4:51 and there's that really cool structure

4:53 and that's that alley I was standing in.

4:55 That museum was super awesome. One cool

4:57 thing about this town as well, if you

4:58 are a fan of the Smiths, Morrisy, when

5:01 he quit the band and started doing his

5:03 solo stuff, he flew from England here to

5:05 do his first music video as quote

5:08 unquote Morrisy without the other Smith

5:11 members. and he went to all the James

5:13 Dean spots, including the museum,

5:17 and they gave me a photo copy from 1988

5:22 of Morrisy. Look at this. Morrisy

5:26 signing

5:27 the guest registry.

5:31 That's cool. The sign says closed for

5:33 the winter, but based on what I'm seeing

5:36 before my eyes, I think it's going to be

5:38 closed a little bit longer than

5:41 seasonally. Here's the old stairs

5:43 leading into what was the high school

5:45 where James Dean attended. And since the

5:48 last time I was here years ago, they

5:50 have bulldozed the entire thing. When I

5:52 was here last time, I went inside the

5:55 school before they started to demolish

5:57 it and tried to get to the second floor.

5:59 Unfortunately, the stairway had fallen

6:01 in and I couldn't do it because on the

6:03 second floor, the classroom that sat

6:05 right up here was James Dean's classroom

6:08 and Moresy when he did that music video

6:11 signed you can't go home again on the

6:14 chalkboard. So, somewhere here in this

6:17 rubble is that chalkboard.

6:20 Man, it's like finding a needle in a hay

6:22 stack. Looks like a piece of an old

6:24 locker right there. Look at that.

6:27 That's cool.

6:42 stopping off now at the final resting

6:42 place of James Dean. And you can see

6:46 people have left little momentos there.

6:48 And just like Maryland's grave in Los

6:50 Angeles, people kiss the headstone. I

6:53 would wager to say that this is probably

6:55 the most popular grave in the cemetery.

6:57 In fact, there are two women there who

7:00 are stopping to pay their respects and

7:02 probably leave their lipstick marks.

7:04 There's like an entire parade.

7:11 He's very popular. If you ever been to

7:11 California and to Los Angeles, the

7:13 Griffith Observatory has a statue,

7:16 basically a bus, the head of James Dean.

7:19 And there are only two of those in

7:21 existence. One in Los Angeles and one

7:25 directly across the street.

7:27 right there.

7:35 I get excited about the most simple

7:36 things. And to be at both James Dean

7:39 statues within a month of each other

7:41 because I was at Griffith Observatory

7:43 like a month ago and to be at the one

7:44 here in Indiana and there's only two of

7:46 them in existence. It's kind of cool,

7:49 right? I think so. For anyone that lives

7:52 near Hollywood or is visiting the

7:54 Griffith Observatory, when you go there

7:56 next time, take a look on the side of

7:58 the bust and see if it is dated 1955

8:03 like this one. I'm kind of curious.

8:06 That is so cool. Whoa, there's an old

8:09 Hurst right there. It's all beat up and

8:11 rusted and worn out. So, this is a

8:13 pretty good opportunity to take the

8:15 drone up in the air and get a bird's eye

8:17 view of James Dean's hometown. And lest

8:20 us not forget Jim Davis, who was the

8:23 creator also of Garfield. They both

8:26 lived in this tiny town wandering

8:29 around. This is their stomping grounds,

8:31 if you will. Just basically a couple

8:34 blocks of downtown. I think there's only

8:36 one traffic light. There's a record

8:38 store. There's a couple bars, a little

8:40 diner, a bank. Small town life at its

8:44 finest. Just to think that James Dean

8:46 went on to become the cultural icon that

8:49 he is. Known in Hollywood, known in New

8:51 York City. People don't even realize he

8:54 was from this very small town. Oh,

8:57 Fairmounts.

8:59 Good to see you again. Till next time.

9:03 Be very quiet.

9:06 Be very quiet. They're sleeping.

9:15 Don't ruin it. Go back to sleep, Zoe. Go

9:15 back to sleep. Take a nap.

9:18 Lay your head down.

9:21 Lay your head down. Pretend you're

9:23 sleeping.

9:27 Put your head down. Pretend you're

9:29 Zoe, get with the program. Put your head

9:32 down.

9:39 Put your head back down. What does this

9:41 weirdo do?

9:43 Put your head down.

9:55 Don't look at her. Put your head down.

9:55 Pretend you're sleeping.

TDW 1481 - James Dean Grave Site

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