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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 ...
John Clinton Porter (1871–1959), former mayor of Los Angeles; Don Post (1902–1979), makeup artist; Jerry Pournelle (1933–2017), author and journalist; June Preston (1928–2022), child actress and opera singer [55] Freddie Prinze (1954–1977), actor and comedian [5] [56] Alan Purwin (1961–2015), helicopter pilot
Griffith J. Griffith (1850–1919), park and observatory donor, namesake of Griffith Park (aged 69) Bob Guccione (1930–2010), magazine publisher, founder of Penthouse (aged 79) Edmund Gwenn (1877–1959), actor (aged 81) (originally placed in the vaults at Chapel of the Pines Crematory, ashes relocated to Hollywood Forever in 2023)
We may think of the whole entertainment industry as "Hollywood," but the actual Hollywood is a small part of the city of Los Angeles. In the 100-plus years the film industry has been in town, a ...
The only cemetery actually in Hollywood, [2] Hollywood Forever was founded in 1899 on 100 acres (40 ha) and named "Hollywood Cemetery" by F. W. Samuelson and (first name unknown) Lombard. In 1897, the two men were the owners of a 60 acres (24 ha) tract of land near Hollywood in Los Angeles County.
This is a list of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States. The list includes Hollywood, as well as Griffith Park and the communities of Los Feliz and Little Armenia. There are more than 148 Historic-Cultural Monuments (HCM) in this area. They are designated by the city's Cultural Heritage ...
Location in Los Angeles County American Legion Post 43 , in Hollywood , California was founded in 1919 by World War I veterans in the motion picture business such as founding members Cecil B. DeMille , Walter Long , and Adolph Menjou .
The Hollywood Wax Museum is a wax museum featuring replicas of celebrities located on Hollywood Boulevard in the tourist district in Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. The replicas on display include A-List stars as well as classic entertainers. The museum claims in promotional literature to be the only wax museum dedicated solely to ...