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Eureka! I found it!….The forever Presco Home! I know what I want. Like half of U.S. Citizens, I come from a Broken Home. I have proof Christine Rosamond Benton was trying to repair her broken home at Rocky Point, but, something went terribly wrong!
Above is a photograph of my parents, Victor and Rosemary Presco in the backyard of their home in Concord. I think one of their three children took this pic. What is absent from this image, is any thought they are going to have a terrible divorce that will shatter the lives of their four children – forever!
Here’s what I want for surviving three suicides and owning thirty-six years of sobriety – and for damages I suffered at the hands of two members of Belmont Historical Society – who employed the history of Vic’s family to enrich themselves, and, create a family legacy for themselves. They thwarted my attempt to do the same. .I believe they made a secret list of reasons why I was DISQUALIFIED. Was not being a citizen of Belmont – one of those reasons? Let us remove this reason – with an attorney’s help!
History is made of DEAD PEOPLE . Vic and Rosemary were DEAD when I posted on the BHS Facebook. Vic would not have existed – if Carl Janke did not exist. This goes for Vic’s four children that suffered greatly due to The Presco Broken Home. I want the City of Belmont to purchase 1136 Ladera Way, that consists of pristine land, the undeveloped land that Carl Janke beheld when he came to Belmont in 1849.
In the driveway I want a brand new Mercedes parked – with a trunk full of money! Ten millions dollars to be exact. In the garage I will hold AA Meetings for men and women who are on the brink of losing their family due to the Disease of Alcoholism. In the basement will be a suicide hotline. Once a month top businessmen will meet and look for a way to save the marriage of their employees. In the summer they can sit on the patio and look at virgin Belmont Land.
I will live upstairs, and when I die I will choose a clean and sober descendant of Vic Presco to live in this home. I’m going to found a program where Fathers will be paid for being sober, and coming to a Save My Family meetings. Helping fathers pay the bills for the sake of THEIR FAMILY – is paramount!
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press. A registered newspaper in Lane County Oregon
Published on August 19, 2024 at 11:46 A.M.
EXTRA! I just talked to Ivana at the mortuary where Drew Benton has been at rest in a icebox for twenty-six days, and we are going to bring closure to the death of Vic and Rosemary’s grandchild. I offered to pay and additional $20 dollars for Drew’s Death Certificate we COMPOSED on Friday. Ivana reminded me Drew’s Social Security number is not on that certificate. Why? – is a question I will take up with the Bullhead Police, and the Mayor of the city three members of my family lived in. Ivanna told me I am the only one who responded. They reached out to Shannon Rosamond Benton, as I did, but got no response.
I spent hours studying the Ladera Way home. I fell in love with the basement room, and decided I would work on my newspaper in it. I then wanted a suicide prevention center located there, manned in person, and not on home computers! I have a vison of Drew’s ashes placed her, on a pedestal with her framed death certificate. This will be a shrine for all parents who lost a child to suicide. They will come here and be there for all those who suffer from life, be there for the…..Broken Ones!
Every volunteer will bring a bouquet of roses. There is a sink in the garage where vases can be found. These vases will be placed on the desk by the widow that overlooks the pristine land. One can write a poem here, or do a drawing in…The Drawing Room! These poems and drawings will be framed and put on the walls of the garage for the betterment of the Brother and Sisters who will do whatever it takes,,,,
To Save Their Family
“Your new address will give you peace and privacy with it’s 11,457 sqft lot surrounded by trees and native landscaping creating the ultimate Zen experience.“
Three Flags – One Grave
Posted on May 27, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
It is 8:33 A.M. May 27, 2023 – and I am still in shock having discovered my grandparents are buried in the same grave! I saw TWO flags put on one gravestone. That was a half hour ago. THEN – I see another flag! There are three of my ancestors buried in the same grave! WHY? Did the caretakers conclude this was a very poor family? William Stuttmeister knew they were Belmont before he died. At great expense to himself, he moved the Jankes to Colma after they were evicted from the Odd Fellow cemetery – at great expense! This was a wealthy pioneer family whose graves keep being defiled! They were moved to the Union cemetery i 1972?
Below is a video I made after I met with LDS Sisters who wanted to meet at the genealogy center to look at these illustrious people who have a magnificent crypt in Berlin. I don’t know if I told them I was considering putting Amanda Gorman in my painting of the two pages saving our electoral votes.
John Presco
“Originally Carl abd Doretha were buried under a huge bay tree there and bodies later moved to the Union Cemetary “during the dark of night” my mother used to tell us.”
LA’s most coveted real estate isn’t in Beverly Hills. It’s in the city’s cemeteries.
Not unlike buying a house, some of LA’s cemeteries have brokers and HOA-ish fees
A wide shot of Hollywood Forever cemetery in Los Angeles on Aug. 13, 2024.Ashley Hayes-Stone/SFGATE
By Paula Mejía,Contributing LA Culture EditorAug 18, 2024
On a cool, early June afternoon, hundreds of people hiked up to the top of a steep hill in Glendale, not far from Los Angeles’s woodsy Griffith Park, to check out an open house for a newly listed development. Soft music trickled out of a loudspeaker as guests milled around the sought-after community, dubbed Comfort, while sipping light refreshments and partaking in snacks. Onlookers admired the stonework, tasteful landscaping and sweeping views of the surrounding Verdugo Mountains befitting of “Glendale’s new hidden gem,” as the event brochure put it.
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An open house that buzzy could have taken place anywhere in Los Angeles County, where the real estate market remains consistently, and stubbornly, red hot. But these visitors weren’t exactly looking to buy a house in the traditional sense. Instead, they were scoping out potential cemetery plots for themselves and their family members at the Glendale outpost of Forest Lawn Memorial Park, the first locale in what’s now one of Southern California’s most recognizable cemetery institutions.
Tom Smith, the cemetery’s public relations director, says these open house events are intended for people to “have a Perrier and a little plate of appetizers, and have [their] questions answered in a very safe kind of a situation.”
Hundreds of thousands of people have been laid to rest at Forest Lawn’s various locations, including many Hollywood luminaries like Carrie Fisher, Sammy Davis Jr., Bette Davis, Sam Cooke and Paul Walker. The cemetery has infamously been dubbed the “Disneyland of the Dead,” both because it’s home to Walt Disney’s own final resting place and because the impresario apparently cribbed from Forest Lawn’s layout for what would become his namesake theme park, according to Smithsonian Magazine. Along with Hollywood Forever, a cemetery by the Paramount Pictures Studio backlot in Hollywood, Forest Lawn not only changed the way that cemeteries are designed in the United States, but also how the death industry has evolved — and especially the way that plots and cremation niches are now bought and sold.
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Today’s cemeteries have a lot in common with the traditional real estate market. There are open houses, upcharges for trendy areas, and brokers selling plots in coveted locales often not available to the public. You can find people willing to offload their properties on Facebook marketplace, and there are even homeowners association-style fees to maintain the grounds.
Only it’s just as expensive, if not more so, to own a piece of LA land in the afterlife: NPR noted in 2017 that at the ultra-exclusive Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park in west LA (where Marilyn Monroe is buried) “square foot by square foot, this is some of the most expensive real estate on the planet.”
Cemeteries are a recession-proof industry, but they aren’t immune to the forces of inflation — and like most things, burial costs have gone up over the past few years. The shifting economic tides are perhaps emblematic of another change, as well. It used to be that people started to inquire about cemetery plots when they hit their 70s, says Grace Chong, the regional sales director for advance planning at Forest Lawn’s Glendale location. But over the past few years, Forest Lawn’s Glendale location has seen a notable uptick in younger people scoping out their afterlife digs, and more adults in their late 40s and early 50s are planning for the inevitable.
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“This is something that we’re eventually going to need,” Chong says.
Lately, she’s noticed that the mentality of prospective Forest Lawn residents has shifted: “I mean, we’re talking about an investment, right?” she says. “It’s smart to invest now.”
‘Out of the realm of the living’
The sprawling and leafy city cemetery is a relatively recent phenomenon.
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The modern memorial park first emerged in the 1830s, after Massachusetts’ Mount Auburn Cemetery was built. While communities around the country had built small graveyards to bury the dead, larger, more grandiose cemeteries sprung up all over the country in time. They became popular not only with those mourning their late loved ones but also among people looking to picnic.
Keith Eggener, the author of the book “Cemeteries,” has noted that at the time, public parks weren’t as prominent in many American cities as they are today. So cemeteries became calm third spaces for many residents. As Eggener told the Atlantic, cemeteries were often built away from city centers so that the dead were kept “out of the realm of the living … we would like to go into their world when it’s convenient for us.”
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Some of the region’s most iconic cemeteries, like Hollywood Forever and Forest Lawn, were both established when Los Angeles County was beginning to evolve from a series of disparate communities, separated by farm roads, into a more cohesive collection of modern neighborhoods and independent cities. When Hollywood Forever first came about in 1899, Hollywood (the industry) was in its infancy and Hollywood (the neighborhood) was populated by fields, not buildings. Locals in the area put up a fight about the soon-to-be cemetery bringing a morose air to the area, and tried to block the prospective project. But eventually Hollywood Forever was built with the explicit intention for it to “resemble a beautiful park,” as a Los Angeles Times story from 1901 reported. Concerts and film screenings are common on the cemetery grounds these days, drawing locals with lawn chairs out to enjoy the open air.
When the original Forest Lawn was founded a few years later, in 1906, the city of Glendale had just been incorporated and had a scant population. The cemetery eventually came under the purview of Hubert Eaton, a former cemetery worker who sold plots on commission to families. He wanted to transform the place from a drab graveyard into a tranquil oasis; he envisioned it not as a cramped, decidedly funereal place but rather an open-plan park bursting with greenery, statuesque art (even commissioning replicas of icons like Michelangelo’s David), winding pathways and water features. He even eschewed typical headstones, opting instead for flat plaques inlaid into the grass and, if families could afford them, grand crypts.
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Eaton’s plans for the cemetery were so radical that the Los Angeles Times cooed about the memorial park’s improvements in a front-page March 11, 1917, story. In particular, the paper called the forthcoming mausoleum “splendid” and admired the “stately colonnade.”
His location of choice for Forest Lawn’s first of six locations preceded LA County’s (and Glendale’s) massive population growth: In 1910, the census counted 2,746 people in Glendale. A decade later, a little over 13,500 people lived there. But Eaton still needed to sell cemetery plots within the nascent Forest Lawn. So he came up with a new kind of “presale” program, reports Smithsonian, marketing deliberately to the living. He sold certain plots within the park for family members to use whenever the need arose, which set a template widely used throughout the industry today.
Within Eaton’s vision, certain areas of the park cost more than others to buy, depending on how luxe or exclusive they were. It remains that way today.
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“We do definitely have different price points,” Chong says. “It’s all based on location, just like you would be buying a house. If you are looking at certain cities, for example: Beverly Hills? That price is going to be way different from somewhere like in San Gabriel.”
Just as with the location, the style of burial also varies wildly at Forest Lawn. There are “side by sides,” where people can opt to be buried next to loved ones, while others are more “bunk bed” style, as Chong puts it. Families with eight or more people who want to have their own area to rest can go for a “garden setting,” or the European-style “above ground properties,” the kind you’ll often see at Hollywood Forever. Cremation, which is becoming increasingly popular at Forest Lawn, also offers a few idiosyncratic options — including one where a rock is placed above someone’s remains, for an earthier feel.
None of these options are cheap. It costs about $15,525 for a ground burial at Forest Lawn’s Hollywood Hills location. And that’s not even counting the casket itself, which can run you anywhere from $695 on the low end to $38,000 for the “Promethean” casket, available with “spitfire red velvet interior” and 14-karat gold-plated hardware.
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Every single buyer at Forest Lawn is required to contribute a one-time chunk to the park’s Endowment Care Fund. The idea for the charge, which is about 15% of the property’s purchase price, is that this pool of money helps to maintain the grounds — not unlike a one-time HOA fee. Forest Lawn even lets prospective buyers make monthly payments on a property if they buy it in advance. Similar to financing a house or a car, it all depends on the down payment someone’s able to cough up. But if someone passes suddenly and their family then wants them to be buried at Forest Lawn, everything has to be paid in full.
Modern challenges
Just like everywhere else, the pandemic upended the cemetery industry. Today’s buyers are getting younger but also more impatient.
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“If they wait any longer, there isn’t going to be anything close to [their loved ones],” Chong says.
Inflation is also a factor that’s weighing heavily in buyers’ minds. In the 10 years that she’s been at Forest Lawn, Chong says that funeral costs on average have doubled. The industry itself has also seen a price uptick in sourcing materials and labor costs in the past few years, particularly for the services of specialized craftspeople who can make mainstays such as crypts.
But that’s hardly stopping people from snapping up properties decades in advance of them hopefully needing them — and it’s leading Forest Lawn to keep developing its 300-ish acres of space in Glendale. “We just broke ground on a new section, which is going to be called Gardens of Contemplation,” Chong says. “And believe it or not, we do have a list of families waiting for that area, because they already have loved ones” who have been laid to rest around there.
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