Founded on August 23, 1877, the Evergreen Cemetery is the oldest existing cemetery in the city of Los Angeles and the first to engage in the business of profiting from burials. More that 100 years after its creation, the Evergreen Cemetery continues to mirror the city that it stands on - a home full of contradictions, where the founders of the city lay next to its drug addicts and new immigrant communities, each stubbornly defining their customs and needs as a prerogative of living in this city.