Well its been seven months since I’ve made my inaugural trip to Los Angeles to visit the gravesites of the stars of Tinseltown. There isn’t a day that goes by where I don’t think about the people I’ve had the utmost honor of meeting, and becoming close friends with. During my inaugural trip, I snapped over 1,300 photos. Meanwhile as the insanity was pushing on full throttle, I was blogging every couple of days, with recaps from the previous days exploits. If your interested you can read all about the insanity I encountered by clicking the drop-down menu to the left of this page under categories then clicking on “Gravecations” which will take you to the page with links on this blog, to past gravecations I’ve been on to Chicago, & Los Angeles.

Moving along, being that I snapped a ridiculously, insane amount of photos. I just posted a sampling of a few photos from the previous days craziness, on the L.A. gravecation blog posts. So with that said I’ve got a little over 120 photos edited from the L.A. trip, which I’ll be showing you in the coming days. What I plan on doing is show casing every few days, the photos I’ve edited, in a classy photo slide show on the blog. Organized by cemetery these photos will give you a wider viewpoint of the gravesites I checked out while I was in Los Angeles.

Before you check out the photo slide show from Hillside Memorial Park. Let me give you a run down of its history. Hillside Memorial Park which is at 6001 West Centinela Ave, bordering the I-405 Freeway, was founded in the 1940s. Its conception took place when 10 leaders of the Jewish community in the Los Angeles area came together and pretty much purchased 40 acres of land which would soon be used as a cemetery. Hillside Memorial Park’s most notable resident in my opinion is Al Jolson, who’s towering monument can be seen by people cruising along on the 405 Freeway. Other residents who call this tranquil Jewish burial ground home, include Moe Howard of The Three Stooges, gangster Mickey Cohen, among other people. So lets check out that photo slide show.

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So there you have it. When I get a chance, I’ll add more photos to the above photo slide show. The next cemetery I’ll be going over is Holy Cross cemetery, which is Hillside Memorial Park’s, nearby catholic counterpart.