Guy Lombardo
Guy Lombardo Museum
From the mid-1980s until 2007, there was a museum dedicated to Guy Lombardo in London, Ontario, near the intersection of Wonderland Road and Springbank Drive. In September 2007, lacking visitors and funding, the museum was closed. Although the city owned many of the exhibits, most of the collection can be found at the private home of former part-time curator Douglas Flood. City staff recommended that the museum not be reopened. In early 2015 Flood scheduled an auction of remaining items from the collection, under protest from members of the Lombardo family.
Lebert Lombardo’s children also have an extensive collection of artifacts, including photographs, record albums, sheet music, awards, and the band’s framed first paycheck from 1918 in their homes and storage units in Fort Myers and Sanibel, Florida. They have tried to donate the collection to various universities and museums but have had no takers. The Library of Congress has a collection of Lombardo films.[
Cemetery Information:
Final Resting Place:
Pinelawn Memorial Park
2030 Wellwood Avenue
Farmingdale, New York, 11735
USA
North America
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Grave Location:
Block Forsythia, Range South, Plot C, Grave 65 (2nd row)Grave Location Description
As you enter the cemetery off Wellwood Avenue (at the intersection of Wellwood and William Locke Drive) you will see the extensive outdoor mausoleum just 200 feet off Wellwood Avenue. Stay to the right and drive 1/4 mile to the first intersection and park. The talented bandleader and wife can be found as you walk into the center of the mausoleum complex, looking directly on your right. On the same wall you will find two of his brothers and the great Count Basie as well!
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40.746174, -73.403238Photos:
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