By Jim Smith Getting around Venice can be a problem if you don’t have a car. Even then, if you park your car on the street, don’t even think about moving it […]
Community Pressure Saves Vera Davis Center
By Roger Linnett The City tried to push one past the Oakwood Community, and the Community pushed back. The result is that the city’s “done deal” of turning the social service center […]
100 Years Ago: 1911 Was A Banner Year in Venice – City of Venice and Venice Union High School Both Created
By Jim Smith Venice may have been founded in 1905, but it didn’t become the City of Venice until May 29, 1911. On that day, the good citizens of Venice voted to […]
How Can Venice Be Preserved?
There are currently 24 historical districts in Los Angeles (HPOZs). There is no reason why Venice should not be the 25th. A Venice historical district can be proposed to the City Council […]
Book Review: Charles Brittin – West and South
By Jim Smith This book is an incredible photographic display of Venice in the 1950s and ‘60s, and of the Civil Rights Movement in Los Angeles and the South. Brittin, who died […]
Save The Venice Post Office
By Jim Smith Why would anyone want to sell our 72-year-old historic post office? The officials at the US Postal Service claim that it is because the quasi-public organization is in deep […]
How Venice Voted – And Didn’t Vote
By Jim Smith Since February, when Jane Harman abruptly resigned her seat in Congress, 16 candidates have been working hard to discuss important national and international issues with the voters of the […]
Yet Another Ocean Front Walk Ordinance Coming Soon
By Jim Smith Change is coming to the Ocean Front this summer. Some of it good, some of it bad, from the viewpoint of those who love the uniqueness of Venice. A […]
Vera Davis Center: The Plot Thickens
By Jim Smith When is a Community Center not a Community Center? Venice may soon find out if the Vera Davis-McClendon Youth and Family Center is absorbed by the city’s Cultural Affairs […]
Venetians Hear From Our Next Member of Congress (And Lots of Pretenders)
By Jim Smith It’s not often that voters anywhere in the country get to choose a new Congressional Representative. In most cases, the incumbent does everything possible to stay in office. There […]
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