Search results
The Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary is a Jewish cemetery in Culver City, California, United States.Many Jewish people from the entertainment industry are buried here. The cemetery is known for Al Jolson's elaborate tomb (designed by Los Angeles architect Paul Williams), a 75-foot-high pergola and monument atop a hill above a water cascade, all visible from the adjacent San Diego Freeway.
The most prominent structures in the memorial park, the main mausoleum and the Al Jolson Shrine, were designed by celebrated architect Paul R. Williams and completed in 1951. Williams created the designs as a pair, so they enhance and complement one another. The shrine is a Moderne simplification of an open classical temple, a seventy-five-foot ...
Mar 14, 2014 · In July, 1943, after a 14-month fight, the cemetery, now called Hillside Memorial Park, was given a permit to operate. Harry was listed as president, with Robert as secretary. Lazare was no longer a director (though he is buried at Hillside). The early years at Hillside were peaceful and profitable.
People also ask
What happened to Hillside Memorial Park?
Why should you visit Hillside Memorial Park?
Is Hillside Memorial Park Jewish?
What is Hillside Memorial Park?
Our History. Founded as B’nai B’rith Memorial Park in 1941 by Lazare F. Bernhard and Robert and Harry Groman, the park was renamed just one year later. In 1957, the park was acquired by Temple Israel of Hollywood and has been an integral part of Jewish values and traditions throughout the community. Hillside Memorial Park has also become ...
About Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary. For more than 80 years, Hillside Memorial Park has provided members of the Jewish community the means to honor and remember their loved ones in beauty, tranquility and the comfort of Jewish traditions. Throughout history, the foundations of a Jewish community have always been built with a cemetery, a ...
Mar 25, 2015 · As the gates opened recently to Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary, the famed Jewish cemetery next to the 405 Freeway as renowned for its verdant lawns as its celebrity occupants, there appeared ...
Jewish cemetery which opened in 1946.
