Exploring LA's Lost City Cemetery and Fort Moore Memorial

Los Angeles's Old City Cemetery is gone, but large parts of it still exist at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery. Come walk with me as we uncover a relic of LA's distant past.

[@doloresvargas6450]

This is a work of art.Tony has spoken.

[@doloresvargas6450]

It's good that this preserved by Angelus Rosedale Cemetery.Tony has spoken.

[@cshafer29169]

One really neat aspect of this channel is it focuses on L.A history before Hollywood and the film industry arrived. Very few people seem to tell its early history and only focus on its motion picture history.

[@ashleelarsen7765]

Dude rocks, thanks Matt, sweet dreams ✌🏻😁

[@ashleelarsen7765]

Ya, that Hollywood and show biz is in the background, that's California, but he gets to the city, and the people. Also, his speed is right on.

[@ColoradoMartini]

Well done my friend. I grew up in Los Angeles. And I thought I knew the history of it pretty well. But I had never heard the story before. I wish my mom was still alive so I could ask her about it. Because she's the one that passed down the history of the city to me.

[@lzad3764]

Hollywood cemetery Did give Hattie McDaniel a memorial marker to apologize to her. Another excellent video. Research is great and stories are so interesting!

[@markwatsonOHANA]

Thank you for the Upload.. Great bit of history.. Love it..Now I want to go there myself some day.. #GodBlessAmerica..

[@bwatkins466]

I worked in the Los Angeles Civic center for 35 years. While walking, I had passed this area many times, and, had no knowledge of this history. What an item to completely miss!

[@graveexplorations]

I know what you mean. I've lived in L.A. and Orange County my whole life and was oblivious to it all until I started researching material for this channel. L.A. was once a city of hills. Thank you for commenting :)

[@bwatkins466]

Thanks for your note. Was born in the San Diego Navy hospital 1943, and, have lived in Huntington Beach for 28 years currently. We were very lucky to have been here all that time now compared to other parts of the country.

[@helencheadle793]

That was lovely...so glad the first settlers still got recognition by being moved here as much as possible. Nice commentary linked with rise and fall of stray balloons too! Much appreciated. Helen in U.K. x

[@dharmaambesa2730]

The best channel for Historians.

[@debbieprice2040]

Another splendid video...your work is excellent. I can't stop watching. Your storytelling is hypnotic. Thank you!!

[@pennyhill56]

I live in the U.K. and I love your videos I am learning a lot about the history of America and one day I hope to visit keep them coming very very interesting

[@graveexplorations]

Thank you very much for watching, and for leaving such kind words. It is my dream to someday travel to your country and explore its very rich history. :)

[@mccartney007]

Great video. Thank you for the time and effort you took to put this all and all of your videos together for us.

[@califdad4]

I like the pyramid. We have one in our area, in Rocklin Ca, its over a 100 years old and the family had it done in granite , it was in the middle of their huge ranch, now its near a exclusive gated neighborhood and a golf course

[@kathycrutcher2671]

Another great find.keep up the good work ❤️

[@Harvest1966]

How did I not comment before??? I would never purposely​ watch one of your videos and not leave a message. I really enjoyed learning about this old Cemetary long gone. As always, your research and narration are beyond words. I love the way you honor the dearly departed. Thanks again for letting me walk with you! 👍👍👍

[@graveexplorations]

Thank you! Keep those walkin' shoes ready, more explorations are on the way! :)

[@johnnyroxx8513]

I totally love your professional videos as l do the same thing in visiting old pasts and am thankful for your digging and enlightening.

[@teredoan5753]

Great Job here ,like always!

[@Ghostgetter]

love the work you do and the hard work and research you put into it. great job. nothing but love for this channel

[@graveexplorations]

Ghostgetter Thank you for your kind and encouraging words. It means a lot to me to know that so many people feel the way I do about these historic cemeteries. :)

[@patriciaherman6499]

Another outstanding informative cemetery video looking forward to watching more Thank you.

[@pearlpurlperrell]

Very interesting and most enjoyable history as well. Thank you, as always.

[@graveexplorations]

You're very welcome! Thank you for watching :)

[@jimmyhappysmith204]

Thank you so much for sharing your informative video. All included is the best.

[@martinmcconville2163]

Every 1 of your videos is worth its weight in gold. The little glimpse of history you provide is so well researched and presented with such dignity im looking forward to your next offering thank you sir

[@graveexplorations]

Thanks so much for your very kind words.

[@howdyradio934]

Thank you for the upload. Watching from Australia.

[@alexfitch2656]

Absolutely love it!!

[@brendapayne6603]

I enjoy the bits and facts of social history that I learn from your channel. I had never heard of the Woodsmen of America until just now.

[@Harvest1966]

Once again, you have delivered an extremely well made glimpse at the past!!! I've been waiting patiently for your next video and I wasn't disappointed. Outstanding job! Looking forward to the next one!!! 👍👍👍👍👍

[@graveexplorations]

Thank you for watching and especially for your patience in between videos. I've got a big one I've been working on for a while now, and I felt I needed to put something out in the mean time. Thanks again! :)

[@doloresvargas6450]

These figures are so striking.Tony

[@rdo1231]

Excellent work!

[@graveexplorations]

Thank you :)

[@doloresvargas6450]

I like this video.Thank you Grave Explorations..Tony

[@catwoman472]

Very nice video. Thanks for sharing

[@graveexplorations]

Thank you for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

[@MikeKnoxComedy]

wow-had no idea a cemetary was here bc most of the hill is gone and they are building around it-crazy!

[@celiagorleski2716]

What a nice tribute.

[@melungeon55]

Thank you for a great video. I enjoyed it immensely. The historical background information is worth its weight in gold. Can you tell me the name of the music playing in the background?

[@graveexplorations]

Thank you! Your kinds words mean more to me than you know. :)The music is called "Passing Time" by Kevin MacLeod. If you go into "Create" on KZbin it's in the Audio Library, you can download it for free.

[@maxshow7949]

Awesome!!!

[@niallgerardjosephoconnells7097]

Thanks for sharing. Kind regards Niall O'Connell Dundalk Ireland.

[@DonovanWert]

Thanks brother 🙏

[@oliviaquijano9018]

I would like to see another Video-Clip, of all the People at the "Hollywood Forever Cemetery," in Los Angeles, California. Please? Thank you.

[@RoxaneEllesansailes]

Thx for the history 👍

[@doloresvargas6450]

I like this video by grave explorations.Tony

[@anthonyy.matranga9431]

Boyle Heights also has Odd Fellows Cemetery on Whittier blvd. My grandfather is buried there. I've always been curious about the 'Woodsmen of America' and their signature Tree Stump headstones. Also Ronald Reagan spoke there during the burial of the thousands of dead infants that were discovered as abortions. Odd Fellows Cemetery donated land for the massive mass burials there. It would be an interesting video for you to make and im near by if you need help. I love your videos.

[@graveexplorations]

Hello, and thank you for watching and commenting. I have long planned on visiting the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Boyle Heights, stay tuned. The Woodsmen headstones you mentioned are very distinctive, and I've seen them across the country. Actually they were offered by the Woodsmen of the World (Not the Modern Woodsmen of America - both organizations were founded by the same man and have similar business models but are not affiliated with one another). My video on Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, IL gives a little background on them. Basically they were a fraternal benefit society that sold life insurance and annuities. Up until the early 1930's, the Woodsmen of the World placed distinctive tree headstones for members who passed on. Both WOW and MWA are still in business to this day.

[@anthonyy.matranga9431]

Grave Explorations Thanks. I'll search for that video now. Interesting stuff all day long my friend.

[@anthonyy.matranga9431]

Grave Explorations there's an old German cemetery in Whittier ca. on so. Painter ave. Most whittier residents aren't aware of it. German settlers came to Whittier I think in the 1920s. They had their own church and brick mill all next to each other. The cemetery is small if you google images of it. It's another forgotten cemetery and a small part of whittier history that still stands.

[@anthonyy.matranga9431]

Grave Explorations. I believe its called Olive Grove cemetery.

[@graveexplorations]

Yes it is. I made a video of it about a year ago. kzbin.info/www/bejne/favSineQZ7KnbMk

[@jannorell6049]

Great video. Do you know if the Kercheval and The Chase is related to Ken Kercheval from Dallas and Chevy Chase, the comedy actor?

[@vandykegirl1]

horace bell, one of the original los angeles rangers whih were the precursor to the lapd is buried there

[@grantgmc]

Its a pity that progress takes away these old cemeterys Sydney in the old days had twoOld cemetery in the middle of the city both were lost to progress

[@graveexplorations]

You're so right. It's strange to think that in the early history of great cities, the cemeteries were set up outside of town, but almost over night they became the center of town. Vachel Lindsay wrote a poem called "What the Sexton Said," about what progress does to graveyards. It's worth checking out.

[@cardio0007]

Wonderful vid. You have found your calling. Whomever hit the thumbs down must have done that by accident. I forgive you, whomever...

[@graveexplorations]

Thank you for your kind words of encouragement, they mean a lot to me.

[@kellyhill430]

Were those parachutes or balloons? The one at the end looked alot like a parachute isn't this cemetery close to an airport?

[@johnjoiner18]

😢❤️

[@dianna7795]

Whomever is doing this video u ought to do show about graveyards in Galveston, Tx - they have a black cemetery - some really interesting grave yards

[@andy0422]

Thank you again for your hard work and devotion. That memorial depicts the US Army having one agenda for the federal government and the Mormon religion theirs.

[@graveexplorations]

Thank you for watching and for commenting. They sure did have their own agendas, and how interesting that in just over six months time from the flag raising in LA, gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill...

[@kendn01]

'Hollywood Forever' cemetery did not reject Hattie - it was the previous owner of that cemetery, which operated under another name, who rejected Hattie. The Hollywood Forever owners invited her family to have her reburied in Hollywood Forever, but they declined. There is a cenotaph in H.F. dedicated to Hattie.

[@pennyhill56]

Could u tell me where Buster Keaton was buried I love the silent movies ???

[@graveexplorations]

Me too! Buster Keaton (a brilliant and underrated comic genius) is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills. I did some filming there for my Laurel and Hardy video, but I did not get to his grave. Hundreds of film stars from the silent era up to the present day are interred at one of two Forest Lawn locations. They are in Glendale (the oldest) and the Hollywood Hills. Both are very large and beautiful, and are tourist attractions in their own right.

[@pauldelgadillo1827]

As Grave Explorations explained. Buster Keaton was buried at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills Cemetery. Find the presentation on the Hollywood Graveyard channel and it's a real good one with actual movie clips. I just passed Hollywood Forever on Santa Monica today and Tyler Kassidy, the new owner, has really cleaned the place up during the past twenty years or so. The remains of Judy Garland were moved there from New York in January.

[@DonaldWMeyers-dwm]

One correction: The Mormon Battalion was not sent to California by Brigham Young. While Young supported the organization of the battalion, and vowed that the soldiers' families would be taken care of in the trek to the Salt Lake Valley, the battalion was under the direction of Gen. Kearney, and helped tip the balance of power in Kearney's favor when John C. Fremont started going rogue.

[@matildekimmerle6607]

Let's make this' global! The Pierre LachAise cemetery and more

[@graveexplorations]

Père Lachaise is at the top of my bucket list. Now THAT would be something! ツ

[@OnceUponaSquirrel50]

were did come walk with me come from ?

[@graveexplorations]

Plastician Magician It came to me when I was writing an introduction for an early video and it stuck.

[@SoCalUrbex74]

I wanted to film this place, but Evergreen was too much. I will return back sometime next Fall. The Mormons played a huge role for California independence from Mexico. So many battles took place in Southern California.

[@graveexplorations]

Rosedale is a great location, there's always something new to discover there.

[@SoCalUrbex74]

Grave Explorations I found some recents discoveries while exploring Evergreen and Odd Fellows. I will send you an e-mail.

[@graveexplorations]

Sounds fascinating, can't wait to see your discovery. I've been curious about the Odd Fellows Cemetery.

[@geegeelast7597]

I sqaure as a native Angeleno, I get so frustrated at the lack of respect for anything. Everything is destroyed, all in the name of progess and for whomever in power can make a fast buck.

[@pennyhill56]

Thank u for that information I still laugh at Laurel and Hardy movies they don't make them like that anymore

[@graveexplorations]

Times have sure changed, but thank goodness with still have all the old films!

[@MikeKnoxComedy]

this is also the spot of the lizard people of the 1930s

[@SoCalUrbex74]

Underground LA What? Lizard People??

[@MikeKnoxComedy]

from a Hopi Indian myth by a tribesman called Chief Green Leaf, was told to a geophysicist and mining engineer named George Warren Shufelt in 1933.

[@SoCalUrbex74]

Underground LA Thanks !

[@wndrwmn72a44]

Underground LA I'm sure the original residents of the land which of course were the Indians, history is just as fascinating!

[@manuelr.knippingreynoso1371]

HATTIE McDANIELS You were born on earth and died on earth, your personal sacrifice was not in vane. You decided 🐞