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 […]
The Raft
John Johnson of Change-Links will be missed
By Clay Claiborne It seems like forever that whenever the first of the month rolled around I would be looking forward to new issues of two local papers that weren’t very thick […]
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 […]
Batman of Venice
By Krista Schwimmer On the evening of Friday the 13th, I was home alone, preparing to take a delicious, soothing bath – (yes, I do know there’s a drought going on – […]
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 […]
RIP: Eden Wingate Eastin Andes
for Eden I wish it would rain and we could run around in the rain like children do – we’re still playing children behind the mask of age you get old enough, […]
LAPD Steps Up Harassment of Boardwalk Patrons
By Clay Claiborne Sunday, June 29th, the LAPD introduced a new tactic designed to clear what they consider “undesirable” people from the Venice Boardwalk, As has become almost a Sunday summer tradition, […]
Poetry
A CREATION MYTH – BY Laura Shepard Townsend Sometimes – By Pano Douvos The Empty Aisle – By Pasquale Trellese ——————————————————– A CREATION MYTH (In honor of Venice-of-America’s 109th Birthday) In a […]
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