Eternal City: Los Angeles Cemeteries | Lost LA | Season 6, Episode 4 | PBS SoCal

Visit Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Evergreen Cemetery in Boyle Heights, and Hollywood Forever to see how L.A. reinvented the cemetery. In this episode, Lost LA host Nathan Masters and UCLA’s Eric Avila visit the gravesites of the rich and famous and learn how racial segregation once divided the dead.
Featured interviews include the Chinese Historical Society’s Eugene Moy and historian Karie Bible.
Lost LA's Season 6 Episode 4, "Eternal City: Los Angeles Cemeteries" premieres on KZbin January 23, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. PT. Click above to set a reminder.
01:00:00:00- 01:01:29:13 - Introduction
01:01:30:03-01:07:51:19 - Forest Lawn Memorial Park
01:07:51:19-01:14:27:00 - Evergreen Cemetery
01:14:27:00-01:18:40:03 - Chinese Historical Society of Southern California protecting burial grounds
01:18:40:20-01:26:07:07 - Hollywood Forever Cemetery
01:26:07:07-01:26:48:15- Credits
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[@jerrytravels8654]

I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I live in Maui ,HI. I love this channel. I saw a red street car going pass my old street and the watts towers. I am hooked

[@jubalcalif9100]

Wow! Double Wow!! Triple Wow!!! Enjoyed watching this SO much ! Sheer heaven to someone like me, who is not only a history buff but also one who is endlessly fascinated by cemeteries. Kudos to all those involved. Well done, I must say. And many thanks to Karie Bible, who sent me here. 👍🤓

[@misacruzader]

Evergreen Cemetery is so beautiful and somber. I'd love to be laid to rest there someday.

[@F30586]

I love this channel. We needed this series. Angelenos, Stand Up. 🙌🏽

[@donculver153]

Thanks for this. The cemeteries of L.A. are one of my favorite places to visit. The history is fascinating and the beauty of Forest Lawn is spectacular. The artwork, especially the painting of the Crucifixion is breathtaking. I miss the Dearly Departed Tours by Scott Michaels. He is an encyclopedia of Hollywood history. Thanks again.

[@Karinukes]

This is my new favorite series 😍😍😍😍

[@stevemellin5806]

A very interesting video. You guys are the best ... thank you

[@retsub3]

Fantastic. History was the most boring torturous class to me in school, right up there with civics and social studies 😄 Never imagined one day I'd find it so fascinating, spending endless hours learning on YT.

[@kplante7881]

Great episode…. Thanks for sharing!

[@MareMeyer]

I love this show. Thank you

[@OH.A.M.]

KCET at night is like history class at 8 A.M. in High School..

[@davidparker9676]

Full of revisionist Marxist history lessons.

[@jaymerlan7621]

This was a good history on the cemeteries in LA.

[@davidparker9676]

Not so much history, more about grievance narrative and trying to diminish the founders of L.A.

[@jonathancalderon8178]

Loving this Ep

[@IamRosebud2]

Wonderful history 🌷💕🌸

[@davidparker9676]

More propaganda than history in this show.

[@rockyroad-hq7hz]

Just imagine. There's no longer any large land to build new cemeteries in LA to tell the 21 century story. If they were. I'd imagine the new cemetery as an art park. Instead of religious hints of an after life.

[@davidparker9676]

That sounds like a terrible idea. Why not leave things alone and take your art park to the Mojave desert.

[@fukit8374]

There are more bodies under that. Me knowing the area, that burial ground might be a lot more expansive than just the cemetery that we see now.

[@johnmilovich2195]

I ❤PBS

[@MrNurserob]

At the beginning, when they were talking about Wee Kirk of the Heather and the other small churches, and how they’re modeled after (or actually ARE ancient European churches deconstructed and moved here) and why that is, if I heard ‘racism’ I was going to scream. I’m so glad they didn’t. Forest Lawn is a beautiful place, the books of its history they offer in their shop are lovely and informative, and there’s no need to taint it with that. If everything is labeled something, that word ends up meaning nothing. Let’s enjoy the beauty instead of making everything the social cause du jour. With all the beautiful countryside and green grass at FL, it would be so nice for society at large for many of us to back away from the keyboard and go touch some of it.

[@rufusmedrano2962]

I find it very disrespectful how the metro wasn’t going to say anything about the bodies.

[@danlowe8684]

Until a university decides to build a sports complex there...

[@Joker_68]

Creepy but also a fascinating idea 👍🏼

[@danlowe8684]

It's happened at a few places across the country. Most notably Monument Cemetary in Philadelphia. It became Temple U's sports complex. Thousands of headstones are still visible along the Delaware River where they were dumped.@@Joker_68

[@J_J_P_]

This is a good filler for Huell Howser.

[@SAGEBRUSHED777]

He's no Huell, but he'll do.

[@LOLman21213]

not really

[@davidparker9676]

Not even close. Huell was such an endearing host, these guys are not.

[@LOLman21213]

DUDE CAN SOMEONE TIMESTAMP WHERE HE POINTS OUT WHITE PEOPLE ARE/WERE RACIST? I NEED THAT IN EVERY SINGLE EPISODE NO MATTER THE SUBJECT XOXOXOXO

[@davidparker9676]

It only took five seconds to point fingers and apply revisionist history to the script. PBS is such a biased producer using tax dollars and constantly begging for money. Now I remember why I stopped watching PBS "programming" years and years ago.

[@Gl6619]

“Monster” Bugsy Siegel? Ok, he was in the mob but in terms of mobsters I don’t know if he would be classified as a monster…the people he was supposed to have killed were basically other mobsters…honestly he was more of a racketeer than an actual killer…most of the people he supposedly killed it was more rumors than fact…but he was never a real suspect in any major killings.. There were far worse mobsters who actually killed women and murdered non mobsters probably… It’s a bit annoying when people act like their experts but just repeat things they hear… I know, I know …sorry, I’m a bit of a mob enthusiast…and actually they pretty much where all scum bags to be honest 🤣🤣🤣

[@sherrisnyder7093]

I believe she said "mobster," not "monster." Anyway, that's what I heard.

[@ArtamStudio]

@@sherrisnyder7093 you are correct.

[@MauriceOrtiz-ut8yi]

Unbelievable! Did they even mention Inglewood Park Cemetery! One of the oldest, biggest, and most beautiful facilities! What an embarrassing production.