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Reference no. 731. Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary is a cemetery and mortuary located in the Westwood area of Los Angeles. It is located at 1218 Glendon Avenue in Westwood, with an entrance from Glendon Avenue. [1] The cemetery was established as Sunset Cemetery in 1905, but had been used for burials since the 1880s.
Hollywood Forever Cemetery is a full-service cemetery, funeral home, crematory, and cultural events center which regularly hosts community events such as live music and summer movie screenings. It is one of the oldest cemeteries in Los Angeles, California and is located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hollywood.
In return for a zoning variance to permit the cemetery, the founders of Evergreen gave the City of Los Angeles a 9-acre (36,000 m 2) parcel of the proposed cemetery in 1877 for use as an indigent graveyard, often referred as a "potter's field." [7] Ownership of the indigent cemetery passed from the City to the County of Los Angeles in 1917. At ...
The Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary is a Jewish cemetery in Culver City, California, United States.Many Jewish people from the entertainment industry are buried here. The cemetery is known for Al Jolson's elaborate tomb (designed by Los Angeles architect Paul Williams), a 75-foot-high pergola and monument atop a hill above a water cascade, all visible from the adjacent San Diego Freeway.
C. Burials at Calvary Cemetery (Los Angeles) (76 P) Burials at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels (10 P) Burials at Chapel of the Pines Crematory (62 P)
The Chinese Cemetery of Los Angeles is one of several historical cemeteries found around East Los Angeles, including Evergreen and Calvary cemeteries. Located at First Street and Eastern Avenue in the Belvedere Gardens section of East Los Angeles, today the cemetery is now bordered on the south by the Pomona Freeway (60) and on the east by the Long Beach Freeway (710).
Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries, owned by Sinai Temple of Los Angeles, refers to a Jewish mortuary and two Jewish cemeteries in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The original cemetery property is located at 5950 Forest Lawn Drive in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles. The cemetery was originally established in 1953 by the neighboring ...
In 1901, Kaspare Cohn donated 30 acres (12.1 ha) of land for the establishment of this cemetery. The bodies interred at Chavez Ravine were moved to East Los Angeles's Home of Peace Memorial Park between 1902 and 1910. There are a number of famous rabbis buried here, and amongst others a few celebrities from the entertainment industry as well.