Inglewood Park Cemetery, Cemetery in Inglewood, California, United States

Inglewood Park Cemetery is a burial ground in Inglewood, California that spreads across open lawns, tree-lined paths, and rows of headstones and monuments. The site includes above-ground tombs, family plots, and garden sections arranged in different zones throughout the property.

Announced in November 1905 as "the largest cemetery in the world" on a high strip of ground two miles southwest of Los Angeles, Inglewood Park Cemetery was backed by Senator Robert N. Bulla and other organizers. A two-story white granite chapel was completed in 1907 at a cost of about $40,000, and that same year management ordered a $12,000 funeral car for the electric line off Redondo Boulevard. From 1928 to 1948 it advertised itself as "Largest in California," and from 1948 to 1950 as having the "Greatest number of interments in the West."

Thornton Chase, the first Bahá'í in the Western world, is buried here, and an annual memorial each September brings large crowds. Caesar Cardini, credited with creating the Caesar salad, lies in the grounds, as does Norma Talmadge's family circle and the mother of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Cora Alcindor.

The grounds are laid out as rolling lawns divided by pale, curving paved paths, with thin driveways looping between the wall sections. Grave markers line the tops of the low, light-colored walls, so note the section before setting out. The main entrance is off Florence Avenue, the old right-of-way of the electric line that once ran in front of the cemetery.

Several well-known figures from music, law, and entertainment rest here, drawing visitors who come specifically to pay respects at their gravesites. The cemetery has become a place where people remember those whose work shaped American culture during the 20th century.