Cypress View Crematory

This place is beautiful, calming, and newly renovated. It was previously owned by El Camino, but is now Dignity Memorial. The flowers are kept fresh, the marble looks fabulous, it’s very private and quite. A great visit for anyone studying art or architecture.

My grandma passed away a week ago and I’ve learned from my mom that this was the place where my grandma bought her own slot to be buried. Her viewing was held there and I thought it looked decent. Going into the room where guests can eat was a pretty good size but, it was too hot inside. You would think it would be air conditioned just like the room where my grandma was at for the viewing but nope! We had to open the doors and let flys come in.
I brought my projector and laptop to do a slideshow of my grandma hoping that I would be able to show it to all our guests. I’ve learned that they had 3 TVs so I thought I can connect my laptop since they didn’t have a projector screen. My husband went to ask them about connecting my laptop and they told him that they only have RCA connections! Where’s the HDMI connection?!? So outdated! I ended up showing the slideshow on the wall.
For my grandmas funeral, she was put to rest inside the mausoleum. As you walk inside, this place is absolutely beautiful! Marble floors and beautiful statues. You can tell this place is at peace. As hard as it was to have my grandma gone, I was pleased to know she will be resting in a place that could possibly look like heaven.
As for the funeral service, it went well. Except again, no AC! The workers brought over fans that were too loud that I couldn’t even really hear what the priest was saying. With this place looking the way it is, you would think it would be air conditioned since there are bodies stored in there. At least the staff is accommodating.

They keep the place very neat and clean, and the staff is always pleasant and helpful.

I have no relatives here, nor do I believe in interring the dead like this. My main interest is photography using wide zoom and fisheye lenses. Having shot at the Holy Cross and Greenwood Mausoleums, I decided to check out Cypress View. The parking is tighter here than at the other places because they don’t have the space as this is not a cemetery. Unlike the other Mausoleums, there is a gatekeeper here who wanted know if he could help me. I just said I wanted to look around and that was sufficient for him. I noticed he did not seem too interested in my large DSLR with grip and large sized lens (14−24mm f/2.8). The top of my press photographers pas was peaking out of my shirt pocket and I had the lanyard around my neck. He did notice that.
The place is basically laid out on a main axis with a series of corridors bisecting at 90 degree angles. The top level has loads of sculptures and has tall ceilings and some beautiful and colorful stained glass windows. The bottom level is laid out identically with less artwork, lower ceilings and plainer windows. As the top level has skylights as well, the lighting is better there. My first visit was mainly to check things out. I can see coming back with a longer lens to shoot the sculptures.
I thought the place was clean and well kept. The carpeting another reviewer mentions must have been removed. There was little furniture. Some of the artwork on the bottom level were cheap reproductions of prints, but there were some nice antique pieces of furniture. What I did not like was the funky smell which was some kind of air freshener they use. It reminded me of mothballs combined with cheap perfume.
As with other mausoleums, I do keep a low profile, make no noise, act respectful, greet the staff, and carry my Press Photographers Pass. If you do shoot there, you should be aware you are on private property. All in all, Holy Cross is better because of the Catholic iconography and Greenwood is more extensive. Very handy that all three mausoleums are so close together. Good city planning!

Beautiful art décor. Clean facility. No complains. My grandparents in a small box on top of a wall but always find a place to place their individual flower arrangements.

If I could give this place a –negative star I would. Please understand that this is the «red-​headed» stepbrother of the «Historic Cypress Mausoleum» across the street and if it didn’t have so many bodies inside, it should be condemned.
I spoke to an old man who was waiting inside the «historic» side of Cypress View and according to him, I needed to visit the old side of the mausoleum because it had some really old plaques in there and it did… but I am sorry I ever went in.
This will be my strongest case ever for why I will NEVER be cremated or interred when I pass. And this building also adds credence to my theory that once the folks who have passed no longer seem to have any living relatives, the cemetery no longer cares about the state of the where these folks are buried or interred. Who cares what a buliding looks like if the money is gone and there is no one to complain right?
Currently the building in undergoing seemingly major renovation and several of the once beautiful stained glass windows were broken or missing. The plaster on the inside of many walls was peeling and faded. The first big room that you enter, which is supposed to look like someone’s library, smelled like a sewer that had backed up, no one knew it and when they finally found out, it was too late. I can take a lot of smells but that funk drove me out of the room.
The decay and destruction was not something that happened over night in a bad storm… this def looks like it was years in the making and SHAME on the people who supposedly run this place!
Someone’s boom box was blasting away, a crock pot sat on a broken table in the corner, broken equipment and tools strewn about and a general vibe of sadness and disrepair in the place. Outside one of the doors is what was once a beautiful little garden with a fountain, s place to meditate and pray but now it’s dry, weedy and neglected. I walked around the entire building and never saw a soul… so very disrespectful and I would def raise hell if someone I loved was there.
I did see a few bouquets of long dried flowers and several urns of dead plants strewn about gathering dust. No ghost or phantom in their right mind would ever be caught there… too embarrassing and depressing.
Oh, I forgot the best part… down one of the halls was about three or four pieces of dried dog poop, incredibly distrespectful and points to the obvious fact that no one cleans up in there.

Very, very bizarre. For a decade, my brother and I couldn’t find my grandparent’s graves. Their gravesites to this day not linked electronically to any database. You walk into the mausoleum and give their names to a person that looks it up in a paper card file like an old library. That’s the only way to do it! The art and marbled floors and walls look ok, but the rugs and furniture are shot to shit. The only thing I’m happy with is that a d.j. threw a gay dance party here (I found photo evidence by googling cypress view photos!). How unproffesional! The delight comes when you realize I hated my homophobic and white trashtastic grandparents. Awful people. So, at that juncture, I’m glad they could go so low.