The City Council will consider the designation at it's Tuesday morning meeting
The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday will consider a unanimous recommendation from the city’s Cultural Heritage Commission to designate the Hollywood Forever Cemetery an historic-cultural monument.
The monument designation was recommended for the cemetery’s association with the early development of Hollywood and the western expansion of Los Angeles during the 20th century, as well as for its association with the development of the cemetery industry in L.A. and the development of Jewish burial facilities in the city.
Goers noted that much of the early decades of the cemetery were caught up in litigation, so Earnshaw’s vision for the cemetery wasn’t executed immediately, and much of the cemetery’s period of growth occurred in the 1920s. “This really also reflected the growing Jewish community in Los Angeles, and also their westward expansion, as well, as Jewish enclaves emerged in mid-Wilshire and Hollywood, other temples were constructed further westward and there was a desire to be closer to those centers of faith and to have facilities that were closer to where they resided rather than having to travel,” Goers said.
Goers added that many of the celebrities who were buried at the cemetery in its early years could have chosen more established cemeteries but decided to “be buried instead in the community that they helped build.”
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