By CJ Gronner Venice lost one of the true O. G.s on August 15th, when Jay Adams, founding member of Dogtown’s Z-Boys and skateboard legend, passed away at the age of 53 […]
Venice Celebrates the Life of Jay Adams
P.O.P. by the Sea
By Marty Liboff Let us go back, back before Venice even existed. Abbot Kinney and a few of his business partners as early as 1895, had developed parts of the northern borders […]
History, Shmistory
By Laura Shepard Townsend They say “if you don’t learn from history…then you’re just stupid!” The changes currently assaulting the community of Venice, heralded as ‘progress’, call to mind 1926, a year […]
Kim’s Market and 320 Sunset Updates
By Roxanne Brown Here’s an update on two very similar Venice projects: proposed restaurants at 320 Sunset and Kim’s Market. Kim’s Market’s new owners Alicia Searle and partner, architect Steve Vitalich, and […]
All Aboard the Tram
By Marty Liboff When Abbot Kinney opened his Venice of America in 1905, he had a small steam train running around the canals. On the Venice Ocean Front there were wicker basket […]
Venice, Burning to be Restored
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 […]
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