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Altar
Altar on the second floor.
Barrymore Wall
Lionel Barrymore was an American actor and director. He won an Oscar for A Free Soul (1931). He played the villainous Mr. Potter" 1946's It's a Wonderful Life, and for played Dr. Leonard Gillespie in nine "Dr. Kildare" films. Irene Fenwick was an actress. She was married to Lionel Barrymore from 1924 until her death in 1936. Years before marrying Lionel, she had at one time been the girlfriends of his brother Jack.
Billington Francelia
Francelia Billington was an early American silent-screen actress, and an accomplished camera operator. She co-starred in Erich von Stroheim's directorial debut, Blind Husbands, in 1918. She continued in undistinguished melodramas, Westerns and action films, including 1920's Desert Love with Tom Mix. After marrying Lester Cuneo in 1925, they appeared in 14 films together before their divorce in 1925. She faded from public view and died from tuberculosis.
Childs Ozro1
He took up planting, and was Los Angeles’s most prominent plantsman, with a nursery. Childs invested in land and commercial enterprises, and co-founded Farmers and Merchants Bank. In 1879, Childs contributed a considerable amount of land for the University of Southern California, which opened in 1880. In 1884, he built the Grand Opera House. At the time of his death, he left 6 living children (of 10) and a wife who survived him by 45 years.
Childs Ozro2
Ozro W. Childs was born and educated in Vermont but moved to Ohio where he was a schoolteacher and learned the tinsmith trade. Deciding to try his luck in the newly-discovered California gold fields, he traveled by ship to Nicaragua, where after a delay, he took another ship to San Francisco and arrived in August, 1850. The Northern California foggy weather aggravated his asthma, which caused him to head south with a man named Hicks, arriving at the San Pedro Bay harbor southwest of then-tiny Los Angeles. They started a tinsmithing and hardware store. After a few years, Childs bought out Hicks and eventually left the business with $40,000. He contracted to build an extension of the "Zanja Madre" canal system to bring water to the fields south of town. He was paid in local land – all within present day downtown Los Angeles. He built a big house at 10th and Main, at the time a half-mile from town center.
Church
Church at Cavalry memorial park.
Coogan Sr John
John Coogan Sr. acted as Jackie Coogan in The Hayseed (1919), Back Stage (1919) and Daddy (1923). He was married to Lillian Coogan. Father of Jackie Coogan Jr - Uncle Fester from the Addams Family. He was killed in a car crash along with actors Robert J. Horner and Junior Durkin, and Coogan ranch foreman Charles Jones.
Costello Dolores
Dolores Costello was a film actress most notable in the silent movie era, though she worked into the 1940's, including The Magnificent Ambersons. She was married to actor John Barrymore and is the grandmother of actress Drew Barrymore.
Costello Family
Costello Lou
Comedian Lou Costello was one-half of the Abbott and Costello comedy team. Famous for their "Who's on first" routine, the pair are the only two non-sportsmen honored in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
Costello Mae
Mae Costello was an actress and writer, known for The Joys of a Jealous Wife (1913), Her Crowning Glory (1911) and The One Good Turn (1913). She was married to Maurice Costello, and was the mother Dolores Costello ( grandmother of Drew Barrymore).
Costello Maurice
Maurice Costello was an actor and director, known for Fellow Voyagers (1913), Through Life's Window (1914) and The Wrath of Osaka (1913). He worked uncredited into the 1940's. He was married to Mae Costello, and was the father of Dolores Costello (grandmother of Drew Barrymore).
Cox Phyllis
Phyllis Cox was Shirley Temple's understudy, was an original member of "Our Gang", studied dance with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and danced with Gene Kelly.
Diaz Jose
José Díaz was murdered on his way home from a neighbor's birthday party early on the morning of August 2, 1942. He liked wearing a baggy "Zoot Suit" at parties and jazz clubs. More than a dozen Mexican-Americans were convicted of assault or murder during the racially-charged trial. The subsequent 'Zoot Suit riot' in Los Angeles was a result of the trial and anti-Mexican climate of the times. The 'Sleepy Lagoon' murder (after the nickname of the local reservoir) has never officially been solved.
Doheny Edward L
Doheny drilled the first successful oil well in the LA Oil Field. He was implicated in the Teapot Dome Scandal but acquitted. He contributed money to foundations, and donated much land to California for Doheny State Beach.
Dominguez Beatrice
Beatrice Dominguez acted in silent movies, including dancing a tango with Rudolph Valentino in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. She was one of the first Hispanic actresses to get onscreen billing in Hollywood. She died of peritonitis at age 24.
Dominguez Beatrice
Beatrice Dominguez.
Dunne Irene
Actress Irene Dunne was nominated 5 times for the best actress oscar, but never won. She retired relatively early and worked in charitable causes.
Fay Frank
Frank Fay was the top vaudeville comic in the 20's, former husband of Barbara Stanwyck, and originated the Elwood P. Dowd character in the stage version of Harvey.
Foster Stephen Clark
Stephen Clark Foster was an interpreter in the Mormon Battalion, served in the 1849 state constitutional convention, and was elected to the State Senate. He was the first American mayor of Los Angeles under US military rule in 1856. He was later elected for four terms to the LA County Board of Supervisors.
Friganza Trixie
Trixie Friganza (born Delia O’Callaghan) began her career with minor parts in operas, working her way from the chorus to starring in musical comedies to having her own feature act in vaudeville. During the height of her career, she used her fame to promote social, civic, and political issues. In later years she taught drama in a convent school and left her remaining fortune to the convent.
Gage Henry
Henry Gage was a lawyer, politician and diplomat. He was the 20th Governor of California from 1899 to 1903, and the U.S. Minister to Portugal for several months in 1910..
Gibbons Cedric
Austin Cedric Gibbons was an art director and production designer for the film industry, and contributed to movie theater architecture in the 1930-1950s. He is credited as the designer of the Oscar statuette in 1928. He was nominated 38 times for an oscar and won 11 times, for The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Merry Widow, Pride and Prejudice, Blossoms in the Dust, Gaslight, The Yearling, Little Women, An American in Paris, The Bad and the Beautiful, Julius Caesar, and Somebody Up There Likes Me.
Gonzales PFC David
PFC David Gonzales was a US Army soldier who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his actions during World War II. On April 25, 1945, PFC Gonzales was killed in action in the Philippines while digging out fellow soldiers who had been buried in a bomb explosion. In 1999, David Gonzales, Jr. attended a ceremony where he discovered the photo the Army was sending out was not of his father. After investigation, and at another ceremony, David Jr. was presented with other medals due his father: Bronze Star, Purple Heart, WWII Victory Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with two Bronze Service Stars, Philippine Liberation Medal, World War II Honorable Service Lapel Button, Combat Infantryman Badge, and the Expert Rifle Badge.
Hammerstein Elaine
Elaine Hammerstein was the granddaughter of the businessman and composer Oscar Hammerstein I. She was married to actor Alan Crosland, then insurance broker James Kays. She died in a car crash near Tijuana.
Healy Ted
Ted Healy started in vaudeville, an eventually incorporated Larry, Moe and Shemp into his comedy act. The 4 appeared in several movies of the early 30's before the Three Stooges split off.
Hodiak John
Actor John Hodiak played footsie with Tallulah Bankhead in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat, and was in Battleground. He had a fatal heart attack while shaving at age 41.
Kays Family
Elaine Hammerstein (Kays) acted on stage and in silent movies including The Girl From Nowhere, The Drums of Jeopardy, Reckless Youth, Broadway Gold, and The Midnight Express.
La Bianca Leno
Leno LaBianca and wife Rosemary were stabbed to death in 1969, by the Charles Manson 'family'. They were random victims.
Loredo Linda
Lyon 1 Roosevelt
Lyon 2 Stimson
Lyon 3 RedondoBeach
Lyon 4 Searchlights
Lyon 5 AlarmReal
Lyon 6 deaths
Lyon Derwin
Like most people in the US West Coast, Derwin Lyon was concerned about a Japanese attack. He modified a bedroom so it could be sealed off from outside air. He brought in two tanks of compressed air and one tank of oxygen to be used in the air-tight chamber. The family conducted regular rehearsal drills, and tested the system. On June 23, 1942, Derwin decided to hold a longer drill of about 15 minutes. As before, Lyon turned off the tanks, opened a window and struck a match which caused a huge explosion heard by neighbors blocks from the house, and set the house on fire. The youngest daughter who had polio was found in a closet in the bedroom, wrapped in a blanket. The other five members of the family were taken to a nearby hospital with severe burns and other injuries. Derwin, wife Lena, a daughter and son all died the next day, and the second daughter died a day later. The second son was asleep in another room at the time of the fire and was the only survivor of the fire.
Manning Timothy
Cardinal Timothy Manning had celebrated Mass on every altar in the archdiocese.
Manning Timothy
Cardinal Timothy Manning acceded to the See as the third Archbishop in 1970 and three years later became the second Cardinal to head the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Mascarel Jose
Jose Mascarel was a 19th−century sea captain, California landowner, investor, baker, vintner and one- term mayor of Los Angeles, California.
Maus
Calvary mausoleum.
Maus
I only saw 2 people inside - one maintenance worker, one visitor.
Maus
McCarty Mary
Mary McCarty acted as a child in some Shirley Temple and Jane Withers movies, and earned a Tony nomination for her role in the Broadway version of Chicago. She played the dying woman in All That Jazz.
McDaniel Etta
Etta McDaniel was the sister of actor Sam and actress Hattie. She mostly played uncredited parts as maids and nannies. Her first role was as a native in King Kong who pulls her baby away from him.
McGroarty John
John McGroarty was a poet, Los Angeles Times columnist and author, and served two terms as a Democratic Congressman from California.
McHugh James
James McHugh was a composer of over 500 songs, recorded by Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Chet Baker, Dinah Washington, June Christy, Peggy Lee, Deanna Durbin, and Ella Fitzgerald.
Memorare Statue
Memorare. A security person in a golf cart came up to me at the this point, and had me cease and desist...
Morton Ferdinand
Jelly Roll Morton was a ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader and composer. His composition Jelly Roll Blues was the first published jazz composition, in 1915. Morton also named and popularized the "Spanish tinge".
Murphy Jimmy
Jimmy Murphy raced 5 times in the Indy 500, winning in 1922, finishing third twice and fourth once, He was a two-time national champion, and was the first American driver to win a European Grand Prix. He died in a dirt-track accident.
Altar

Altar  68 views

Barrymore Wall

Barrymore Wall  70 views

Billington Francelia

Billington Francelia  28 views

Childs Ozro1

Childs Ozro1  7 views

Childs Ozro2

Childs Ozro2  7 views

Church

Church  67 views

Coogan Sr John

Coogan Sr John  19 views

Costello Dolores

Costello Dolores  20 views

Costello Family

Costello Family  19 views

Costello Lou

Costello Lou  67 views

Costello Mae

Costello Mae  19 views

Costello Maurice

Costello Maurice  24 views

Cox Phyllis

Cox Phyllis  23 views

Diaz Jose

Diaz Jose  24 views

Doheny Edward L

Doheny Edward L  70 views

Dominguez Beatrice

Dominguez Beatrice  31 views

Dominguez Beatrice

Dominguez Beatrice  30 views

Dunne Irene

Dunne Irene  73 views

Fay Frank

Fay Frank  39 views

Foster Stephen Clark

Foster Stephen Clark  31 views

Friganza Trixie

Friganza Trixie  24 views

Gage Henry

Gage Henry  42 views

Gibbons Cedric

Gibbons Cedric  35 views

Gonzales PFC David

Gonzales PFC David  25 views

Hammerstein Elaine

Hammerstein Elaine  41 views

Healy Ted

Healy Ted  40 views

Hodiak John

Hodiak John  74 views

Kays Family

Kays Family  38 views

La Bianca Leno

La Bianca Leno  42 views

Loredo Linda

Loredo Linda  2 views

Lyon 1 Roosevelt

Lyon 1 Roosevelt  1 view

Lyon 2 Stimson

Lyon 2 Stimson  1 view

Lyon 3 RedondoBeach

Lyon 3 RedondoBeach  1 view

Lyon 4 Searchlights

Lyon 4 Searchlights  1 view

Lyon 5 AlarmReal

Lyon 5 AlarmReal  1 view

Lyon 6 deaths

Lyon 6 deaths  1 view

Lyon Derwin

Lyon Derwin  2 views

Manning Timothy

Manning Timothy  43 views

Manning Timothy

Manning Timothy  43 views

Mascarel Jose

Mascarel Jose  29 views

Maus

Maus  74 views

Maus

Maus  74 views

Maus

Maus  73 views

McCarty Mary

McCarty Mary  42 views

McDaniel Etta

McDaniel Etta  42 views

McGroarty John

McGroarty John  37 views

McHugh James

McHugh James  40 views

Memorare Statue

Memorare Statue  40 views

Morton Ferdinand

Morton Ferdinand  38 views

Murphy Jimmy

Murphy Jimmy  40 views

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