Tickets are no longer available online. Tickets can be purchased with cash only at the door if space is available. The 9:20 am tour still has some space. The others are sold out.
For the 40th year, the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles “digs up the dirt” on Hollywood history - including a few scandals - via a living history walking tour of the 124-year-old Hollywood Forever Cemetery at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard. Visit the gravesites of early Hollywood stars, movie moguls, and the pioneers who shaped Los Angeles, to hear fascinating tales about their lives (both their accomplishments and misdeeds) from historians and living history performances.
Tours will commence every 20 minutes, rain or shine, between 9:00 and 11:00 AM.
Featured on the tour are those who mapped Hollywood---including Col. Griffith J. Griffith and Hollywood founder Harvey Wilcox---and those who put Hollywood on the map: silent film swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks, heartthrob Rudolph Valentino, the first African American Oscar Winner Hattie McDaniel (Best Supporting Actress, GONE WITH THE WIND), actress and William Randolph Hearst mistress Marion Davies, filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, screen siren Barbara La Marr, slain director William Desmond Taylor, and over twenty other legendary Los Angelenos.
TICKETS:
$18 for ADSLA members (tickets at the door are $20)
$28 general admission (tickets at the door are $30)
Ticket holders will check in off a list at the door. Ticket sales will end on Saturday, October 14 2023 at 11:59 PM. Tickets will be available at the door, CASH ONLY. Exact change will be applauded!
No Refunds. Tickets can be sold or gifted to a friend. Email us with the friends name or transfer the ticket via your Agile account.
This information is subject to change, so watch this space:
Guided walking tours will depart (rain or shine) from the parking lot behind the Cathedral Mausoleum (follow the main road, Dr. Stanley & Regina Aizin Drive, through the front gate around to the southeast corner of the cemetery) every 20 minutes, from 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m. Tours are approximately 2 1/2- to 3-hours.
Comfortable walking shoes (tour goers will be walking on uneven, grassy terrain), water, hats and sunscreen are recommended.
Parking and check-in are at the parking lot behind the Cathedral Mausoleum. Parking is free.
Health and Safety Information: Though masks are optional at this time, that may change in accordance with fluctuating city and county health guidelines. The tour is mostly outdoors, but it culminates in the cemetery’s Cathedral Mausoleum.
We bring in a very posh portable restroom just for this tour. It sits at the edge of the parking lot. Please use it! It is there for you and did we mention that it is very posh?
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Tourgoers are asked to please take care not to get in the way of any funeral services that may be in progress; allow mourners their space, speak quietly, and refrain from photographing mourners. Kindly avoid touching or standing on headstones or monuments, as doing so might cause damage. Restrooms are located in the parking lot behind the Cathedral Mausoleum.
