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  1. Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary is a cemetery and mortuary located in the Westwood area of Los Angeles. It is located at 1218 Glendon Avenue in Westwood, with an entrance from Glendon Avenue. The cemetery was established as Sunset Cemetery in 1905, but had been used

  2. Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. Der Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery ist ein Friedhof an der 1218 Glendon Avenue im Westwood Village Distrikt von Los Angeles in Kalifornien. Er ist bekannt als die letzte Ruhestätte etlicher großer Namen der Unterhaltungsindustrie.

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    According to the Westwood Neighborhood Council, the Westwood Homeowners Association, and the Los Angeles Times Mapping L.A.project, Westwood is bounded by:

    Development

    Westwood was developed on the lands of the historic Wolfskill Ranch, a 3,000-acre (12 km2) parcel that Arthur Letts, the successful founder of the Broadway, and Bullock's department stores, purchased in 1919. Upon Arthur Lett's death, his son-in-law, Harold Janss, vice president of Janss Investment Company, inherited the land. He began to develop the area and started to advertise for new homes in 1922. The Los Angeles Times reported the news: "Westwood, the subdivision of the Wolfskill Ranch,...

    UCLA

    Meanwhile, the Southern Branch of the University of California had been established on Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles, where enrollment expanded so rapidly that by 1925 the institution had outgrown the site. The selection of a new campus in the Westwood hills was announced on March 21, 1925. The owners of the estate, the Janss brothers, agreed to sell the property for approximately $1 million ($14 million in 2023 dollars), less than one-third the land's value. Municipal bond measures passed by...

    The nation's second planned suburban shopping district

    Westwood Village, a planned, 55-acre suburban shopping district immediately south of the UCLA campus, was only the second such district on this scale ever to be built worldwide, preceded only by Country Club Plaza (1922–23) in Kansas City. It with was created by the Janss Investment Company, run by Harold and Edwin Janss and their father, Peter, in the late 1920s as a shopping district and headquarters of the Janss Company. Its boom was complemented by the boom of UCLA which opened in 1929 an...

    In 2018, about 50,288 people lived in the 90024 ZIP code, which grossly corresponds to Westwood, according to the Census Bureau's American Community Survey. The 2000 U.S. census counted 47,916 residents in the 3.68-square-mile Westwood neighborhood—or 13,036 people per square mile, an average population densityfor the city. In 2008, the city estima...

    The Westwood Recreation Center is in Westwood. The facility includes barbecue pits, a lighted baseball diamond, lighted outdoor basketball courts, racquetball courts, a children's play area, a community room, an indoor gymnasium with weights, and a picnic table. The center also has Aidan's Place, which opened on December 5, 2001. The place, named a...

    The Los Angeles County Department of Health ServicesSPA 5 West Area Health Office serves Westwood. In 2018, Westwood stakeholders voted to subdivide the area into two official neighborhood council districts. Since then the North Westwood Neighborhood Council has represented UCLA, Westwood Village, the North Westwood Village, and Persian Square area...

    Sixty-six percent of Westwood residents aged 25 and older had earned a four-year degree by 2000, a high figure for both the city and the county. The percentages of residents of that age with a master's degreeor higher was the third-highest in the county. Westwood is home to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The Los Angeles Unified S...

  3. About. Get directions 1218 Glendon Ave. Los Angeles, California 90024 United States. Coordinates: 34.05841, -118.44109. 310-474-1579. Cemetery ID: 8440. Members have Contributed. 7,837 Memorials. 88% photographed. 13% with gps. About these numbers. Photos. Added by Jennifer Heffernan. Added by Kirsty. See 9 more. Cemeteries. Region. North America.