![]() ![]() “Easy Rider” is a classic road film about two drug-using, long-haired bikers, Wyatt (Fonda) and Billy (Hopper), who go on a cross-country odyssey to New Orleans in search of personal freedom and easy money.Īfter the film was finished, Hopper told Haggerty to keep it. It was designed with input from Fonda who insisted on it being decorated with the American flag. The bike features a forward-angled front wheel and handlebars, fishtail exhaust pipes and a teardrop-shaped gas tank where the protagonists stashed their cash. Another is from Fonda and a third from Haggerty. One is signed by the National Motorcycle Museum, where it was displayed for 12 years. The gleaming stars-and-stripes panhead chopper with chromed hardtail frame is accompanied by three letters of authenticity. Eisenberg bought it last year from a museum after trying for years to buy it from Dan Haggerty, perhaps best known for his roles in the “Grizzly Adams” TV show and movies, who was in charge of keeping the custom-designed bike humming during the 1969 movie’s filming. The seller is Michael Eisenberg, a California businessman who once co-owned a Los Angeles motorcycle-themed restaurant with Fonda and “Easy Rider” co-star Dennis Hopper. 18 sale being held online and at its galleries in Calabasas. The auction house Profiles in History told The Associated Press that it estimates the Harley-Davidson will bring $1 million to $1.2 million at its Oct. 2 - Jane Fonda, writing her memoirs decades later, discovered her mother had been sexually abused as a child.The customized Captain America chopper Peter Fonda rode in “Easy Rider” has come to symbolize the counterculture of the 1960s. Maybe I was too quick to forgo the cemetery tour, but tell me who’s repairing that statue and I’ll be the first to put my contribution directly into their marble-dust-covered hands.ġ - Yes, that’s its real name. ![]() At some point, either by vandals or natural means, the statue’s head has come off, along with one of the hands. I later discover that “Italia” has not fared very well. It reminds me a bit of Père Lachaise in Paris, historic, sobering, haunted. 1, built in 1833, where most of these pictures were taken. Still curious about New Orleans cemeteries, we take a streetcar out to the Garden District and Lafayette Cemetery No. If you have a relative buried there, you can apply for a permit to visit. We later find out that the Roman Catholic Diocese of New Orleans closed the cemetery to the public in 2015 but allowed tour companies to pay the diocese for rights to conduct for-pay tours. ![]() “Oh, yes,” says the hotel concierge upon our return. A sign at the gate says tour proceeds are used for the cemetery’s upkeep, but it looks as though most of the money is going elsewhere. I’m rather stunned at this, and I kvetch to Linda on our way back to the hotel. “You have to pay to look around the cemetery?” 1 and a woman sitting at a card table just inside says, “That’ll be $20 for the tour.” Peter was 10 years old.Īs the camera rolled, he used that awful memory to get into his character’s bad trip while sitting on “Italia” in the Italian Benevolent Society Tomb, a mausoleum that was built in 1857 at Cemetery No. I’m looking for the large statue that Fonda climbed on, and - using real, personal angst to drive his character in the film - began talking about his mother’s suicide.įrances Ford Seymour, the second wife of actor Henry Fonda and mother of actors Peter and Jane Fonda, committed suicide 2 on April 14, 1950. Filming took place without permission and the Catholic Church, which owns the cemetery, was reportedly scandalized when the movie opened. 1 1, which opened in 1789 in the French Quarter. Those scenes were shot in New Orleans Cemetery No. There’s a memorable - some say confusing - New Orleans sequence in which Fonda and Hopper and two prostitutes (Karen Black and Toni Basil) drop acid in a cemetery, have sex, and generally freak out. The 1969 classic, starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper (who also directed) and Jack Nicholson, follows two long-haired chopper riders from Los Angeles to New Orleans. I like to ride motorcycles, so it stands to reason I watch motorcycle movies, though most are admittedly dreadful.īut I will watch Easy Rider every now and again. 15 | Day 9: We didn’t ride to New Orleans because of Easy Rider, but since we were there anyway, why not visit a site that was featured in the movie? ![]()
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