100 Years in the Life of Forest Lawn

Kath, Laura

Tropico Press

This book, "100 Years in the Life of Forest Lawn," delivers a stunning pictorial perspective of both Forest Lawn and life in Southern California during the past 100 years. The photographs offer a visual depiction of the guiding vision and philosophy of Dr. Hubert Eaton whose vision made Forest Lawn completely unique and the world-recognized innovator of memorial-parks as we know them today.

The CEO of Southern California's Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks and Mortuaries explains why cemeteries are important and the unique management challenges faced by those responsible for them.

A Cemetery Should Be Forever

Business & Money

Llewellyn, John F.

Economics

Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks is known as the leading private cemetery in North America. Laura Kath's book chronicles the first 100 years of Forest Lawn's existence and the many innovations introduced by the organization, including the origination of the memorial-park plan for cemeteries and the first mortuary on dedicated cemetery property anywhere in the world. Kath tells a story of the people involved as well as explaining Forest Lawn's unique role in the development of Southern California.

Forest Lawn: The first 100 years

Laura Kath

Travel back in time and learn the story about Dr. Hubert Eaton and the vision for the creation of Forest Lawn

Forest Lawn: The First 100 Years

Laura Kath Fraser

Birth of a Cemetery: Forest Lawn Memorial-Park

In Birth of a Cemetery, John F. Llewellyn reminds us that even supremely successful enterprises often emerge from chaotic beginnings. Llewellyn’s book is essential reading for cemetery scholars and fans who want the inside story of how modern cemeteries develop, and the challenges they face. Llewellyn chronicles the mindboggling organizational drama from 1905 until the mid-1920s accompanying the founding of what was first called Forest Lawn Cemetery. While early American cemeteries were founded by faith-based organizations or public entities, by this time, cemeteries had become hybrid institutions, partly non-profit, partly profit. They exemplified the period’s seemingly unlimited, and largely unregulated entrepreneurial spirit.Forest Lawn also mirrored the booming, racially divided city and suburbs of early 20th century Los Angeles. The cemetery’s founders recognized the opportunity that growth represented, but had trouble settling on a management and sales program that would allow them to fully exploit it. Instead, they squabbled, backbit, and gossiped as they endlessly tried to find a system that would work, and time after time theirs produced more debt than profit.Some familiar faces in California history, Hubert Eaton, architect T. Paterson Ross, Motley Flint, the Glassell family, among others, populate the story. Many are civic leaders, while more than a few are scoundrels trying to figure out that most LA of pursuits, a quick success. Eventually, Hubert Eaton would take control, invent his version of the “memorial-park,” and infuse the landscape with the values for which the institution became famous, middle class families, patriotism, and faith. Within a decade, as Llewellyn demonstrates in the final chapters, the newly christened Forest Lawn Memorial-Park would become the model for most cemeteries founded in the US.

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100 Years in the Life of Forest Lawn

100 Years in the Life of Forest Lawn

A Cemetery Should Be Forever

Forest Lawn: The first 100 years

Forest Lawn: The First 100 Years

Birth of a Cemetery: Forest Lawn Memorial-Park