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Venice is a neighborhood of the city of Los Angeles within the Westside region of Los Angeles County, California. Venice was founded by
Abbot Kinney Abbot Kinney (November 16, 1850 in New Brunswick, New Jersey – November 4, 1920 in Santa Monica, California) was an American developer, conservationist, water supply expert and tree expert. Kinney is best known for his " Venice of America" de ...
in 1905 as a seaside resort town. It was an independent city until 1926, when it was annexed by Los Angeles. Venice is known for its canals, a beach, and Ocean Front Walk, a pedestrian promenade that features
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History


19th century

In 1839, a region called La Ballona that included the southern parts of Venice, was granted by the Mexican government to Ygnacio and Augustin Machado and Felipe and Tomas Talamantes, giving them title to
Rancho La Ballona Rancho La Ballona was a Mexican land grant in the present-day Westside region of Los Angeles County, Southern California. The rancho was confirmed by Alta California Governor Juan Alvarado in 1839, to Ygnacio and Augustin Machado and Felipe ...
. Later this became part of
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Founding

Venice, originally called "Venice of America", was founded by wealthy developer
Abbot Kinney Abbot Kinney (November 16, 1850 in New Brunswick, New Jersey – November 4, 1920 in Santa Monica, California) was an American developer, conservationist, water supply expert and tree expert. Kinney is best known for his " Venice of America" de ...
in 1905 as a beach resort town, west of Los Angeles. He and his partner Francis Ryan had bought of ocean-front property south of
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in 1891. They built a resort town on the north end of the property, called Ocean Park, which was soon annexed to Santa Monica. After Ryan died, Kinney and his new partners continued building south of Navy Street. After the partnership dissolved in 1904, Kinney, who had won the marshy land on the south end of the property in a coin flip with his former partners, began to build a seaside resort like the namesake Italian city. When Venice of America opened on July 4, 1905, Kinney had dug several miles of canals to drain the
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es for his residential area, built a pier with an auditorium, ship restaurant, and dance hall, constructed a hot salt-water plunge, and built a block-long arcaded business street with Venetian architecture. Kinney hired artist Felix Peano to design the columns of the buildings. Included in the
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are several faces, modeled after Kinney and a woman named Nettie Bouck. Tourists, mostly arriving on the "Red Cars" of the
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from Los Angeles and Santa Monica, then rode the
Venice Miniature Railway The Venice Miniature Railway was a long miniature railway in the 1:3 scale with a gauge of , which was in operation from July 30, 1905, to February 13, 1925, in Venice near Los Angeles in California. Location Trips on the loop track starte ...
and
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s to tour the town. The biggest attraction was Venice's gently-sloping beach. Cottages and housekeeping tents were available for rent. The population (3,119 residents in 1910) soon exceeded 10,000; the town drew 50,000 to 150,000 tourists on weekends.


Amusement pier

Attractions on the Kinney Pier became more amusement-oriented by 1910, when a
Venice Miniature Railway The Venice Miniature Railway was a long miniature railway in the 1:3 scale with a gauge of , which was in operation from July 30, 1905, to February 13, 1925, in Venice near Los Angeles in California. Location Trips on the loop track starte ...
, Aquarium, Virginia Reel, Whip, Racing Derby, and other rides and game booths were added. Since the business district was allotted only three one-block-long streets, and the City Hall was more than a mile away, other competing business districts developed. Unfortunately, this created a fractious political climate. Kinney, however, governed with an iron hand and kept things in check. When he died in November 1920, Venice became harder to govern. With the amusement pier burning six weeks later in December 1920, and
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(which had begun the previous January), the town's tax revenue was severely affected. The Kinney family rebuilt their amusement pier quickly to compete with Ocean Park's Pickering Pleasure Pier and the new Sunset Pier. When it opened it had two roller coasters, a new Racing Derby, a Noah's Ark, a Mill Chutes, and many other rides. By 1925, with the addition of a third coaster, a tall Dragon Slide,
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, and Flying Circus aerial ride, it was the finest amusement pier on the West Coast. Several hundred thousand tourists visited on weekends. In 1923, Charles Lick built the Lick Pier at Navy Street in Venice, adjacent to the Ocean Park Pier at Pier Avenue in Ocean Park. Another pier was planned for Venice in 1925 at Leona Street (now Washington Street). For the amusement of the public, Kinney hired aviators to do aerial stunts over the beach. One of them, movie aviator and Venice airport owner
B. H. DeLay Beverly Homer DeLay (August 12, 1891 – July 4, 1923) was an American aviator who pioneered many of the popular stunts used in the early barnstorming air-shows. He soon adapted them for the movies, where he appeared with top Hollywood stars. De ...
, implemented the first lighted airport in the United States on DeLay Field (previously known as Ince Field). After a marine rescue attempt was thwarted, he organized the first aerial police force in the nation. DeLay performed many of the world's first aerial stunts for motion pictures in Venice.


Politics

By 1925, Venice's politics had become unmanageable because its roads, water and sewage systems badly needed repair and expansion to keep up with its growing population. When it was proposed that Venice consolidate with Los Angeles, the board of trustees voted to hold an election. Consolidation was approved at the election in November 1925, and Venice was merged with Los Angeles in 1926. Many streets were paved in 1929, following a three-year court battle led by canal residents. Afterward, the Department of Recreation and Parks intended to close three amusement piers, but had to wait until the first of the tidelands leases expired in 1946.


Oil

In 1929, oil was discovered south of Washington Street on the Venice Peninsula, now known as the
Marina Peninsula Marina Peninsula is a neighborhood in western Los Angeles, California. It is often considered a subsection of the adjacent neighborhood of Venice. Because of its name it is sometimes erroneously thought to be part of the adjacent community of Mari ...
neighborhood of Los Angeles. Within two years, 450 oil wells covered the area, and drilling waste clogged the remaining waterways. The short-lived boom provided needed income to the community, which otherwise suffered during the
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. Most of the wells had been capped by the 1970s, and the last wells, near the Venice Pavilion, were capped in 1991.


Neglect

After annexation, the city of Los Angeles showed little interest in maintaining the unusual neighborhood. Most of the canals were filled in and paved over, and the former lagoon became a traffic circle. The neighborhood lacked the automobile-centric, homogeneous character that the city sought to cultivate in the post-World War II era, and was perceived as a dated, obsolete remnant of earlier decades' land speculation. Los Angeles had neglected Venice so long that, by the 1950s the neglect had led to the area being labeled the "Slum by the Sea". With the exception of new police and fire stations in 1930, the city spent little on improvements after annexation. The city did not pave Trolleyway (Pacific Avenue) until 1954 when county and state funds became available. Low rents for run-down bungalows attracted predominantly European immigrants (including a substantial number of
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survivors) and young
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artists, poets, and writers. The
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hung out at the Gas House on Ocean Front Walk and at Venice West Cafe on Dudley.


Past gang activity

The Venice Shoreline Crips and the Latino
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(V-13) were the two main gangs active in Venice. V13 dates back to the 1950s, while the Shoreline Crips were founded in the early 1970s, making them one of the first Crip sets in Los Angeles. In the early 1990s, V-13 and the Shoreline Crips were involved in a fierce battle over
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sales territories. By 2002, the numbers of gang members in Venice were reduced due to
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and increased police presence. According to a ''
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'' article, by 2003, many Los Angeles Westside gang members had resettled in the city of
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Housing and homelessness

Venice Beach is one of the hardest places in the United States to build new housing due to stringent zoning regulations and pervasive
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ism. Between 2007 and 2022, not a single new house was built in Venice Beach. As per a 2020 count, there were nearly 2,000 homeless people in Venice, up from 175 in 2014. Many of them take up residence in tents and
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. An
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official said that the increased homeless population has contributed to a spike in crimes in Venice in 2021, despite any statistically significant proof of correlation. In February 2020, the city opened a 154-bed transitional housing shelter at a former Metro bus yard.


Geography


City of Los Angeles

According to the City of Los Angeles, Venice is bounded on the north by the City of
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(Marine and Dewey Streets). On the west, it is bounded by the Pacific Ocean and on the east by Walgrove Avenue from the Santa Monica border to Venice Boulevard, Beethoven Street from Venice Boulevard to Zanja Street (including Venice High) and Del Rey Avenue from Zanja Street to Maxella Avenue. On the south, the boundary runs along Lincoln Boulevard to Admiralty Way, then south to
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– including the Marina Peninsula community but excluding
Marina del Rey Marina del Rey (Spanish for "Marina of the King") is an unincorporated seaside community in Los Angeles County, California, with an eponymous harbor that is a major boating and water recreation destination of the greater Los Angeles area. The ...
. Venice borders the Palms,
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, and Del Rey neighborhoods, parts of Culver City and Marina del Rey. According to the Venice Neighborhood Council, Venice consists of the eight existing neighborhoods listed in the Venice Specific Plan – Silver Strand, Oxford Triangle, Marina Peninsula, Silver Triangle, North Venice, South Venice, Presidents Row,
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, Oakwood, North OFW (Ocean Front Walk), NoRo (North of Rose Avenue) and Penmar – plus the additional neighborhood of East of Venice.


Mapping L.A.

According to the
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project of the ''
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'', Venice is adjoined on the northwest by Santa Monica, on the northeast by Mar Vista, on the southeast by
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, Del Rey and Marina Del Rey, on the south by
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and on the west by the Pacific Ocean."Westside"
, Mapping L.A., ''Los Angeles Times''
Venice is bounded on the northwest by the
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city line. The northern apex of the Venice neighborhood is at Walgrove Avenue and Rose Avenue, abutting the
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. On the east, the boundary runs north–south on Walgrove Avenue to the neighborhood's eastern apex at Zanja Street, thus including the Penmar Golf Course but excluding Venice High School. The boundary runs on Lincoln Boulevard to Admiralty Way, excluding all of
Marina del Rey Marina del Rey (Spanish for "Marina of the King") is an unincorporated seaside community in Los Angeles County, California, with an eponymous harbor that is a major boating and water recreation destination of the greater Los Angeles area. The ...
, south to
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."Venice"
Mapping L.A., ''Los Angeles Times''
''The Thomas Guide: Los Angeles County,'' 2004, pages 671, 672 and 702


Cityscape


Venice Canal Historic District

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Abbot Kinney Boulevard

Abbott Kinney Boulevard is a principal attraction, with stores, restaurants, bars and art galleries lining the street. The street was described as "a derelict strip of rundown beach cottages and empty brick industrial buildings called West Washington Boulevard," and in the late 1980s community groups and property owners pushed for renaming a portion of the street to honor Abbot Kinney. The renaming was widely considered as a marketing strategy to commercialize the area and bring new high-end businesses to the area.


Venice Farmers Market

Founded in 1987, the
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operates every Friday from 7 am to 11 am on Venice Boulevard at Venice Way.


72 Market Street Oyster Bar and Grill

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was one of several historical footnotes associated with Market Street in Venice, one of the first streets designated for commerce when the city was founded in 1905. During the depression era,
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had an office there when he was running for governor, and the same historic building where the restaurant was located was also the site of the first Ace/Venice Gallery in the early 1970s.


Historic post office

The Venice Post Office, a red-tile-roofed 1939
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building designed by Louis A. Simon on Windward Circle, featured one of two remaining murals painted in 1941 by Modernist artist
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. Developer Abbot Kinney is in the center surrounded by beachgoers in old-fashioned bathing suits, men in overalls, and a wooden roller coaster representing the Venice Pier on one side with contrasting industrial oil derricks that were once ubiquitous in the area on the other side. Senior curator of American Art at
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(LACMA), Ilene Susan Fort, said this is one of the better New Deal
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both artistically and historically. Although it contains brightly colored elements with amusing details, the intrusion of the ominous oil rigs and wells was very relevant at the time.Vankin, Deborah, (June 17, 2014
"Restored 'Abbot Kinney' mural anchors exhibit on Venice history"
''Los Angeles Times''; accessed February 7, 2022.
After the post office closed in 2012, movie producer
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unveiled plans to purchase it for 7.5 million and revamp the building as the new headquarters of his company, Silver Pictures. The sale included the stipulation that he, or any future owner, preserve the New Deal-era murals and allow public access. Restoration of the nearly pristine mural took over a year and cost about $100,000. LACMA highlighted the mural with an exhibit that displayed additional Biberman artworks, rare historical documents and Venice ephemera with the restored mural. Silver has a long-term lease on the mural that is still owned by the US Postal Service. In May 2019, according to the ''
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'', Silver sold the building for 22.5 million to U.K. investor Alex Dellal and his real estate group founded by
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. Status of the planned renovation remains subject to further approvals. The mural's whereabouts are unknown, putting the lessee in violation of the lease agreement's public access requirement.


Residences and streets

Many of Venice's houses have their principal entries from pedestrian-only streets and have house numbers on these footpaths. (Automobile access is by alleys in the rear.) The inland walk streets are made up primarily of around 620 single-family homes. Like much of the rest of Los Angeles, however, Venice is known for traffic congestion. It lies away from the nearest freeway, and its unusually dense network of narrow streets was not planned for modern traffic.


Venice Beach

Venice Beach, which receives millions of visitors a year, has been labeled as "a cultural hub known for its eccentricities" as well as a "global tourist destination".Ari Bloomekatz and Abby Sewell, "Car Plows Through Crowd on Venice Boardwalk, Killing One", ''Los Angeles Times'', August 3, 2013
/ref> It includes the promenade that runs parallel to the beach, the
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,
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, and the Venice Beach Recreation Center with handball courts, paddle tennis courts, a skate dancing plaza, and numerous beach volleyball courts. It also includes a bike trail and many businesses on Ocean Front Walk. The basketball courts in Venice are renowned across the country for their high level of
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; numerous
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players developed their games or have been recruited on these courts. Venice Beach will host
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and
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during the
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. Along the southern portion of the beach, at the end of Washington Boulevard, is the
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. A concrete structure, it first opened in 1964, was closed in 1983 due to
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storm damage, and re-opened in the mid-1990s. On December 21, 2005, the pier again suffered damage when waves from a large northern swell caused part of it to fall into the ocean. The pier remained closed until May 25, 2006, when it was re-opened after an engineering study concluded that it was structurally sound.The Venice Breakwater is an acclaimed local surf spot in Venice. It is located north of the Venice Pier and lifeguard headquarters and south of the Santa Monica Pier. This spot is sheltered on the north by an artificial barrier, the
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, consisting of an extending sand bar, piping, and large rocks at its end. In late 2010, the
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conducted a $1.6 million replacement of 30,000 cubic yards of sand at Venice Beach eroded by rainstorms in recent years. Although Venice Beach is located in the city of Los Angeles, the county is responsible for maintaining the beach under an agreement reached between the two governments in 1975.


Oakwood

Oakwood lies inland from the tourist areas and is one of the few historically African-American areas in West Los Angeles.


East of Lincoln

East of Lincoln is separated from Oakwood by Lincoln Boulevard. It extends east to the border with
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. Aside from the commercial strip on Lincoln (including the Venice
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and the Venice United Methodist Church), the area almost entirely consists of small homes and apartments as well as
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and (bordering Santa Monica) Penmar Golf Course. A
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, Lincoln Place Apartment Homes, built by the
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, is currently undergoing a $140 million renovation to add 99 new market-rate apartment homes and to update the remaining 696 existing homes. A new pool, two-story fitness center, resident park and sustainable landscaping are being added.
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, which acquired the property in 2003, had previously been in a legal battle to determine whether or not Lincoln Place could be demolished and rebuilt. In 2010, Aimco settled with tenants and agreed to reopen the project and return scores of evicted residents to their homes and add hundreds of units to the Venice area.


Venice Walk Streets

The Venice Walk Streets are three pedestrian-only residential streets. The streets are Marco Place, Amoroso Place and Nowita Place, located west of Lincoln Boulevard and east of Shell Avenue. Los Angeles recognizes a larger North Venice Walk Streets Historic District. “The walk streets, narrower than regular streets, are too small for regulation
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s," so the streets had a designated smaller-size street sweeper.


Subsections

According to the Venice Neighborhood Council, the area can be subdivided further into the following districts: * Ballona Lagoon West Bank * Ballona Lagoon (Grand Canal) East Bank * Silver Strand * Marina Peninsula * Venice Canals * North Venice * Oakwood-Milwood-South Venice * Oxford Triangle


Climate

Like much of the rest of coastal
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, Venice has a
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,Venice Beach climate info
/ref> with cool, wet winters and warm, dry summers. Temperatures are moderate all year, and the neighborhood boasts over 300 sunshine days per year. As a result of
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, fall is usually warmer than spring in Venice. Because of its coastal location, morning fog is a common phenomenon in May and June, but occasionally July and August, as well. Los Angeles residents have a particular terminology for this phenomenon: the "May Gray", the " June Gloom", "No-Sky July" and "Fogust"; during these events, the fog will usually burn off by noon, but the fog may also linger all day. The all-time record high of 110 °F (43 °C) was observed on September 27, 2010, while the all-time record low is 32 °F (0 °C), recorded on January 14, 2007. Venice is in
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10b.


Demographics

The 2000 U.S. census counted 37,705 residents in the 3.17-square-mile Venice neighborhood—an average of 11,891 people per square mile, about the norm for Los Angeles; in 2008, the city estimated that the population had increased to 40,885. The median age for residents was 35, considered the average for Los Angeles; the percentages of residents aged 19 through 49 were among the county's highest. The ethnic breakdown was 64.2%
Non-Hispanic White Non-Hispanic whites or Non-Latino whites are Americans who are classified as "white", and are not of Hispanic (also known as "Latino") heritage. The United States Census Bureau defines ''white'' to include European Americans, Middle Eastern Am ...
, 21.7% Latino (of any racial origin); 5.4% African American; 4.1% Asian, and 4.6% of other origins. About 22.3% of residents had been born abroad, a relatively low figure for Los Angeles; Mexico (38.4%) and the United Kingdom (8.5%) were their most common places of birth. Forty-nine percent of Venice residents aged 25 and older had earned a four-year degree by 2000, a high figure for both the city and the county. The percentages of residents of that age with a
bachelor's degree A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to si ...
or a master's degree was considered high for the county. The median yearly household income in 2008 dollars was $67,647, a high figure for Los Angeles. The percentage of households earning $125,000 was considered high for the city. The average household size of 1.9 people was low for both the city and the county. Renters occupied 68.8% of the housing stock and house- or apartment owners held 31.2%. Property values have been increasing lately due to the presence of technology companies such as
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(which in 2011 began leasing 100,000 square feet of space in Venice) and Snap Inc. (which formerly leased property on Market Street and Abbot Kinney). The percentages of never-married men (51.3%), never-married women (40.6%), divorced men (11.3%) and divorced women (15.9%) were among the county's highest. The percentage of veterans who had served during the
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was among the county's highest.


Arts and culture

Venice has been known as a preferred location for creative artists. In the 1950s and 1960s, Venice became a center for the Beat generation and there was an explosion of poetry and art, which continues today. Major writers and artists throughout the decades have included Stuart Perkoff, John Thomas, Frank T. Rios, Tony Scibella, Lawrence Lipton, John Haag, Saul White, Robert Farrington, Philomene Long, and Tom Sewell.


Architecture

Originally established as a planned city imitating Venice, Italy, Venice is home to a large number of early 1900s buildings built in to emulate Italian renaissance architecture. Particularly along Windward Avenue, where an arched arcade covers the sidewalks on portions of both sides of the street. Similar buildings originally formed a continuous arcade from the boardwalk to the former lagoon (now the Windward traffic circle) but these were condemned by the City of Los Angeles after annexation. Only through the efforts of local preservationists were the few buildings that remain able to be preserved, although many were substantially modified. Designers
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had their offices at the Bay Cities Garage on Abbot Kinney Boulevard from 1943 on, when it was still part of Washington Boulevard; Eames products were also manufactured there until the 1950s. The brick building's interior was redesigned by Frank Israel in 1990 as a creative workspace, opening up the interior and creating sightlines all the way through the building.Eve Bachrach (May 3, 2013)
Touring 3 of Venice's Modern Arch Gems of the '70s and '80s
''Curbed LA''.
Originally located at the Venice home of
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–winning architect and
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founder
Thom Mayne Thom Mayne (born January 19, 1944) is an American architect. He is based in Los Angeles. In 1972, Mayne helped found the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), where he is a trustee and the coordinator of the Design of Cities po ...
, the Architecture Gallery was in existence for just ten weeks in 1979 and featured new work by then-emerging architects
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, and
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. Constructed on a long, narrow lot in 1981, the Indiana Avenue Houses/Arnoldi Triplex was designed Frank Gehry in partnership with artists
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and
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.
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has designed several well-known houses in Venice, including the Jane Spiller House (completed 1979) and the Norton House (completed 1984) on Venice Beach. In 1994, sculptor Robert Graham designed a fortress-like art studio and residence for himself and his wife, actress
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, on Windward Avenue.


Art

In the 1970s, performance artist
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created some of his early, groundbreaking work in Venice. Other notable artists who maintained studios in the area include
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Jean-Michel Basquiat Jean-Michel Basquiat (; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside ...
,
John Baldessari John Anthony Baldessari (June 17, 1931 – January 2, 2020) was an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lived and worked in Santa Monica and Venice, California. Initially a painter ...
, Larry Bell,
Billy Al Bengston Billy Al Bengston (June 7, 1934 – October 8, 2022) was an American visual artist and sculptor who lived and worked in Venice, California, and Honolulu, Hawaii. Bengston was probably best known for work he created that reflected California's " ...
,
James Georgopoulos James Georgopoulos (born 1966 in Manchester, New Hampshire) is a Greek-American visual artist. Georgopoulos works with painting, sculpture, and video installation to address a relationship between highly skilled production techniques, pop culture ...
,
Dennis Hopper Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker and photographer. He attended the Actors Studio, made his first television appearance in 1954, and soon after appeared in '' Giant'' (1956). In the next ten year ...
, and
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. Organized by the
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over the course of one weekend in 2012, the open-air Venice Beach Biennial (in reference to the
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in Italy) brought together 87 artists, including site-specific projects by established artists like Evan Holloway,
Barbara Kruger Barbara Kruger (born January 26, 1945) is an American conceptual artist and collagist associated with the Pictures Generation. She is most known for her collage style that consists of black-and-white photographs, overlaid with declarative captio ...
as well as boardwalk veteran Arthure Moore. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Venice Beach boardwalk became a mecca for street performances, turning it into a popular tourist attraction. Chainsaw jugglers,
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rs, acrobats and comics like Michael Colyar could be seen on a daily basis. Many performers like the
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got their start on the boardwalk.


Venice Boardwalk murals

The Venice Beach boardwalk area is known for its many famous murals by local artists, including Rip Cronk, Jonas Never, and Levi Ponce. The following is a list of the most notable and iconic boardwalk murals: * ''Venice Kinesis'' (2010) by Rip Cronk revision of earlier Venice Reconstituted (1989)* ''Homage to a Starry Knight'' (1990) by Rip Cronk * ''Endangered Species'' (1990) by Emily Winters * ''Venice Beach'' (1990) by Rip Cronk * ''Morning Shot'' (1991) by Rip Cronk (portrait mural of musician
Jim Morrison James Douglas Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer, poet and songwriter who was the lead vocalist of the rock band the Doors. Due to his wild personality, poetic lyrics, distinctive voice, unpredictable and err ...
) * ''Touch of Venice'' (2012) by Jonas aka "Never" * ''Arnold Schwarzenegger'' (2013) by Jonas aka "Never" (portrait mural of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger in bodybuilding pose. * ''Luminaries of Pantheism'' (2015) by Levi Ponce (depicts pantheism supporters, including Albert Einstein, Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Tesla, W. E. B. Du Bois, Du Bois, and others)


Venice Public Art Walls

The Venice Art Walls were built in 1961 as part of the Venice Pavilion, a recreation and performing arts facility. It was a popular hangout spot for locals owing to its proximity to the beach and large number of concrete tables. The central area of the pavilion, known as "the pit" was surrounded by flat concrete walls that made for ideal painting surfaces. The pit became a hotbed of the growing Graffiti in the United States, graffiti movement in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s, with many prominent artists and graffiti crews painting elaborate pieces on the pavilions walls. The area's thriving counterculture and arts scene, along with law enforcement's general neglect of the area made it an ideal location for artists to paint. Thirty-eight years later the Venice Pavilion was torn down but some of the walls, along with two large, conical concrete structures, were maintained. They were restored in 2000 as part of a renovation of the beachfront park area at the end of Windward Avenue, and ever since artists have been allowed to paint there freely and legally.


Music

Venice was where rock band The Doors were formed in 1965 by UCLA alumni Ray Manzarek and
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. The Doors would go on to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Morrison being considered one of the greatest rock frontmen. Venice is the birthplace of Jane's Addiction in the 1980s. Perry Farrell, frontman and founder of Lollapalooza, was a longtime Venice resident until 2010. Venice in the 1980s also had bands playing music known as crossover thrash, a hardcore punk/thrash metal musical hybrid. The most notable of these bands is Suicidal Tendencies. Other Venice bands such as Beowülf, No Mercy (metal band), No Mercy, and Excel (band), Excel were also featured on the compilation album ''Welcome to Venice''.


Recreation and parks

The Venice Beach Recreation Center comprises a number of facilities. The installation has basketball courts (unlighted/outdoor), several children play areas with a gymnastics apparatus, chess tables, handball courts (unlighted), paddle tennis courts (unlighted), and volleyball courts (unlighted). At the south end of the area is the muscle beach outdoor gymnasium. In March 2009, the city opened a sophisticated $2 million skate park, the Venice Beach Skate Park, on the sand towards the north. The Graffiti Walls are on the beach side of the bike path in the same vicinity. The Oakwood Recreation Center, which also acts as a Los Angeles Police Department stop-in center, includes an auditorium, an unlighted baseball diamond, lighted indoor basketball courts, unlighted outdoor basketball courts, a children's play area, a community room, a lighted American football field, an indoor gymnasium without weights, picnic tables, and an unlighted soccer field. The Westminster Off-Leash Dog Park is located in Venice.


Government

Venice is a Neighborhoods in Los Angeles, neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles represented by Los Angeles City Council District 11, District 11 on the Los Angeles City Council. City services are provided by the city of Los Angeles. There is a Venice Neighborhood Council that advises the LA City Council on local issues.


County, state, and federal representation

The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services SPA 5 West Area Health Office serves Venice. The United States Postal Service operates the Venice Post Office at 1601 Main Street and the Venice Carrier Annex at 313 Grand Boulevard.


Education

The schools within Venice are as follows:
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*Broadway Elementary School, LAUSD, 1015 Lincoln Boulevard *Animo Venice Charter High School, 820 Broadway Street, which opened in August 2002 with 145 students, adding a freshman class of 140 every year until 2006, when it reached its full capacity of approximately 525 students. The school moved in 2006 to the former Ninety-Eighth Street Elementary School campus, which had been occupied by the Renaissance Academy. *Venice Skills Center, LAUSD, 611 Fifth Avenue *Westminster Avenue Elementary School, LAUSD, 1010 Abbot Kinney Boulevard *Coeur d'Alene Avenue Elementary School, LAUSD, 810 Coeur d'Alene Avenue *Westside Leadership Magnet School, LAUSD alternative, 104 Anchorage Street * Venice High School, LAUSD – The City of Los Angeles includes Venice High School in Venice, as does Google Maps, although
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places it in Mar Vista.


Infrastructure


Public libraries

The Los Angeles Public Library operates the Venice–Abbot Kinney Memorial Branch.


Fire department

The Los Angeles Fire Department operates Station 63, which serves Venice with two engines, a truck, and an ALS rescue ambulance.


Police

The Los Angeles Police Department serves the area through the Pacific Community Police Station as well as a beach sub-station.


Los Angeles County Lifeguards

Venice Beach is the headquarters of the Los Angeles County Lifeguards of the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is located at 2300 Ocean Front Walk. It is the nation's largest ocean lifeguard organization with over 200 full-time and 700 part-time or seasonal lifeguards. The headquarters building used to be the City of Los Angeles Lifeguard Headquarters until Los Angeles City and Santa Monica Lifeguards were merged into the County in 1975. The Los Angeles County Lifeguards safeguard of beach and of coastline, from San Pedro in the south, to Malibu, California, Malibu in the north. Lifeguards also provide paramedic and rescue boat services to Santa Catalina Island, California, Catalina Island, with operations out of Avalon and the Isthmus. Lifeguard Division employs 120 full-time and 600 seasonal lifeguards, operating out of three sectional headquarters, Hermosa, Santa Monica, and Zuma beach. Each of these headquarters staffs a 24-hour EMT-D response unit and are part of the 911 system. In addition to providing for beach safety, Los Angeles County Lifeguards have specialized training for Baywatch rescue boat operations, underwater rescue and recovery, swiftwater rescue, cliff rescue, marine mammal rescue and marine firefighting.


Notable people

*Fiona Apple, singer-songwriter, pianist. *Jay Adams, professional skateboarder *J.C. Barthel, Venice postmaster and commissioner of supplies, 1920s, president of Chamber of Commerce *Charles Benefiel, artist *Charles Winchester Breedlove#Controversies, Charles Winchester Breedlove, Los Angeles City Council member, 1933–45, supported legalized tango games *Bryan Callen, stand-up comedian, actor, writer and podcaster *Brun Campbell, folk ragtime musician *Emilia Clarke, actress *John J. Coit, builder and operator of
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*Zack de la Rocha, musician *John Doan, classical guitarist *Tom Felton, actor, musician *Sky Ferreira, singer-songwriter, model, actress *C.H. Garrigues, journalist, ''Venice Vanguard'' *The Lennon Sisters, Lennon Sisters, singers *John Lovell (Los Angeles grocer), John Lovell, businessman, member of Los Angeles Common Council"Lovell Funeral Today", ''Los Angeles Times'', September 20, 1913, page II-9
/ref> *John Lydon, "Johnny Rotten", lead singer of the Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd *Helene Machado, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player, born and raised in Venice *Milo Manheim, actor who stars as Zed in the Disney Channel Original Movies, Zombies (2018 film), Zombies and Zombies 2 *Ian McShane, actor *Betty Miller (pilot), Betty Miller, first female pilot to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean, born and raised in Venice *Berniece Baker Miracle, author and half-sister of Marilyn Monroe *Casey Neistat, filmmaker, vlogger, YouTuber *Anna Paquin, actress *James Edwin Richards, crime activist and citizen journalist, editor and publisher *Ronda Rousey, mixed martial artist, judoka, actress, and professional wrestler *Karl L. Rundberg#Beach noise, Karl L. Rundberg, Los Angeles City Council member (1957–65), opposed Venice beatniks *Lila Shanley, stage name Lila Finn, stuntwoman, stunt double, and women's volleyball player *Joanie Sommers, singer *Teena Marie, singer-songwriter, producer


In popular culture

Venice has been the location of numerous movies, TV shows, and video games. Common locations for filming include the piers, skate park, restaurant, canals, boardwalk, and the schools. Some productions include the following: *1914: ''Kid Auto Races at Venice'' (Charlie Chaplin—first appearance of the "Little Tramp" character) *1920: ''Number, Please? (1920 film), Number, Please?'' (Harold Lloyd) *1921: ''The High Sign'' (Buster Keaton) *1923: ''The Balloonatic'' (Buster Keaton) *1927: ''Sugar Daddies'' (Laurel and Hardy) *1928: ''The Circus (1928 film), The Circus'' (Charlie Chaplin) *1928: ''The Cameraman'' (Buster Keaton) *1958: ''Touch of Evil'' (Orson Welles) – shot entirely in Venice except for one indoor scene, selected by Welles as a stand-in for a fictional run-down Mexican border town. *1961: ''Night Tide'' (
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, Linda Lawson, written and directed by Curtis Harrington)—Shot entirely in Venice and shows the deteriorated nature of the area in the 1950s. *1972: ''One Pair of Eyes – Reyner Banham loved Los Angeles'' – architectural critic Reyner Banham explores Los Angeles in 1972. *1976: ''The Witch Who Came from the Sea'' (Millie Perkins, directed by Matt Cimber) *1979: ''CHiPs'' Roller Disco (Episodes 1 and 2 of season 3. Directed by Ron Weiss. Aired September 22, 1979) *1979: ''Roller Boogie'' (Linda Blair, directed by Mark L. Lester) *1988: ''Colors (film), Colors'' *1991: ''The Doors (film), The Doors'' (Val Kilmer, directed by Oliver Stone) *1992: ''White Men Can't Jump'' *1993: ''Falling Down'' *1994: ''Speed (1994 film), Speed'' (Keanu Reeves) *1997: ''Romy and Michele's High School Reunion'' *1998: ''The Big Lebowski'' *1998: ''American History X'' *2001: ''Dogtown and Z-Boys'' *2003: ''Thirteen (2003 film), Thirteen'' (Holly Hunter) *2004: ''Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas'' as Verona Beach *2005: ''Lords of Dogtown'' *2006: ''Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny'' *2007: ''Californication (TV series), Californication TV series'' *2010: ''Billionaire (song), Billionaire'' Billionaire (song), (Travie McCoy) *2011: ''Wilfred (American TV series), Wilfred'' *2012: ''Amazing Race (French TV series), Amazing Race'' *2013: ''Grand Theft Auto V'' as Vespucci Beach *2013: ''Sugar (2013 film), Sugar'' *2013–2014: ''Sam & Cat'' *2009–2015: ''American Ninja Warrior'' *2014: ''Alex of Venice'' *2015: ''The Amazing Race 27'' *2016: ''Flaked'' *2017: ''Once Upon a Time in Venice'' *2017: ''Ingrid Goes West'' *2018: ''Humility (song), Humility'' *2020: ''Scoob!''


See also


References


Further reading

* * * Street art pictorial works. * History of Venice with 367 historic photographs.


External links

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