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Evergreen cemetery walking tour free this Saturday

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Contributed by: Lisa Burks on 11/16/2006

"Resident Storytellers" Steve Goldstein and Joe Walker gave a free presentation about the historic Evergreen Cemetery in Los Angeles last Saturday at the Southern California Genealogical Society's Lunch and Learn session in Burbank, a precursor to their free walking tour of the grounds at Evergreen Saturday, Nov.18.

Time: 10 - 11:30 a.m.
Location: 204 Evergreen Avenue, Los Angeles 90033
Where: At the front gates off Evergreen Avenue. Park around the cemetery

Founded in 1877, Evergreen is the oldest existing cemetery in the city of Los Angeles and, with 300,000 gravesites, it is one of the city's largest cemeteries.
City pioneers like the Workmans, Hollenbecks, and Van Nuys families are buried here as well as lesser known but equally fascinating Los Angelenos. The cemetery has a special section called the Garden of the Pines, which memorializes Issei pioneers of Los Angeles. 19th century midwife Biddy Mason, a slave who earned her freedom through the California courts, is also buried here.

Other featured sections of the cemetery include plots for members of the GAR (Grand Army of the Republic) and a large area for former residents of Hollenbeck House. The Pacific Coast Showmens Association members and auxiliary, an organization for carnival, circus and show workers, has provided burial assistance for its members at Evergreen since the early 1920s.

Steve Goldstein was born in Boston, Massachusetts, where he developed his love of cemeteries at a very early age. Moving to Southern California at the age of 18, he continued and studying and began his vast collection of photographs of the graves of what he calls "The Famous, the Infamous, and the Just Plain Dead" that make up his as-yet unpublished book, "Beneath Los Angeles."

The collection has become a favorite website for many over the past eight years at www.BeneathLosAngeles.com and has led to Mr. Goldstein being frequently interviewed, including the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register, KABC AM Radio, NPR and many other media venues.

Joe Walker is a Crime Analyst with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and has been with the department since 1986. In that capacity, he has worked numerous patrol stations and special unit assignments, including Robbery and Homicide. In 1995-1996, he assisted best selling author James Ellroy, (L.A. Confidential, Black Dahlia).

Walker's most recent work was as a contributing writer to the five volume series, "Famous American Crimes and Trials" published in December 2004 by Greenwood Publishers. Walker wrote about the 1942 "Sleepy Lagoon" murders in Los Angeles and the subsequent "Zoot Suit." Most recently, he is assisting the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the 1957 case of Tommy Bowman.

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