ADSLA Hollywood Forever Cemetery Living History Tour 2024

Art Deco Society of Los Angeles Presents

41st Hollywood Forever Cemetery Walking Tour

Sunday, October 13, 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

On Sunday,October 13, the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles “digs up the dirt” on Hollywood’s history---and several of its scandals---through a walking tour of the 125-year-oldHollywood Forever Cemetery at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard. Visit the gravesites of early Hollywood stars, movie moguls, and pioneers, hearing their fascinating tales from historians and living history performances. Guided walking tours will depart (rain or shine) from the parking lot behind the Cathedral Mausoleum (in the southeast corner of the cemetery) every 20 minutes, from 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. Cost of the approximately 2 1/2- to 3-hour tour is $30 ($35 cash at the door) per person for general admission and $20 ($25 cash at the door) for ADSLA members. Comfortable walking shoes (tourgoers will be walking on uneven, grassy terrain), water, and sunscreen are recommended.Parking and check-in are at the parking lot behind the Cathedral Mausoleum.

Featured on the tour are those who mapped Hollywood---including Col. Griffith J. Griffith and Hollywood founder Harvey Wilcox---and those who put Hollywood on the map: matinee idol Douglas Fairbanks Jr., heartthrob Rudolph Valentino, actress and William Randolph Hearst mistress Marion Davies, filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, screen siren Barbara La Marr, slain director William Desmond Taylor, glamour ghoul Vampira, and over twenty other legendary Los Angelenos.

To purchase tickets, visit: https://artdecola.org/events-calendar/hollywoodforeverwalkingtour-2024