Los Angeles — Los Angeles has no shortage of architectural oddities, such as the Hollywood sign, the Watts Towers and the space age Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport.
Now, L.A. can add one more to the list: a newly constructed five-story residence for the dearly departed.
Hollywood Forever Cemetery's new vertical Gower Mausoleum towers over the sprawling grounds that are the final resting place of legendary actors like Judy Garland, silent film star Rudolph Valentino and "Gone with the Wind" actress Hattie McDaniel, the first Black American to win an Oscar.
"We're trying to answer all of our community's needs for death care," Tyler Cassity, Hollywood Forever co-owner and president, told CBS News of the mausoleum.
Ricardo Pentreath raised his family in Hollywood and