By Jim Smith July is the month of revolutions. The American colonists did it on July 4. The French did it on Bastille Day, July 14. Many more nations celebrate their revolution, […]
A Historytelling: Last Run
by Delores Hanney Research by Samara Jacobs It was ghastly! Young race guy around town, Hal Shain, was zooming along with an alarming absence of due diligence, even by daredevil standards. As […]
The Raft
By Cal Porter Poling a raft down a waterway to get to school? Sounds like something right out of Mark Twain. Maybe Huckleberry Finn or Tom Sawyer did it. But in more […]
A Parade Was Planned
By John Johnson This is a re-print from the July 1969 Beachhead What could have uplifted the spirit of a besieged community more than a Fourth of July Independence celebration? A day […]
& Cancelled
By Jane Gordon This is a re-print from the July 1969 Beachhead Thursday started after an all-night rap session among the parade organizers. We had been getting steadily more reports and rumors […]
Wild and Wonderful Windward
By Marty Liboff When I tell people I grew up on the Ocean Front they always say, “You must have seen a lot changes?!” Well, I sure have … I will write […]
A Song to Abbot Kinney’s Venice
Me and Polly Are gonna ride the trolly To the Venice pier. Abbot Kinney will be there At his magical fair With Charlie Chaplin & Laurel & Hardy There’s always a party […]
Venice Circle
By Jim Smith Public space is taking a beating in Venice lately. First, our beautiful beach is off limits to Venetians, and everyone else, from midnight to 6 a.m. Then our nutty […]
Between the Piers
By Cal Porter I loved that pier, with its Giant Dipper roller coaster, fun house, games of chance, flying circus, salt water taffy and hot dog stands. This was the 1930’s and […]
Topless Ladies Wearing Roses…
By Marty Liboff (Love to John & Anna Haag) For countless millennia the Chumash, Tongva, Kizh, Gabrielino – the People danced, prayed and sang on our beaches. The rivers ran to the […]
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