Venice, Los Angeles Venice neighborhood as delineated by the Los Angeles Times Venice neighborhood as delineated by the Los Angeles Times Venice, Los Angeles is positioned in Western Los Angeles Venice, Los Angeles - Venice, Los Angeles City Los Angeles Venice is a residentiary, commercial and recreational beachfront neighborhood on the Westside of the Californian town/city of Los Angeles.
It was an autonomous town/city until 1926, when it consolidated with Los Angeles.
Today, Venice is known for its canals, beaches, and the circus-like Ocean Front Walk, a two-and-a-half-mile pedestrian-only promenade that features performers, mystics, artists and vendors.
8.4 Los Angeles County Lifeguards Venice, originally called "Venice of America," was established by tobacco millionaire Abbot Kinney in 1905 as a beach resort town, 14 miles (23 km) west of Los Angeles.
When Venice of America opened on July 4, 1905, Kinney had dug a several miles of canals to drain the marshes for his residentiary area, assembled a 1,200-foot (370 m)-long pleasure pier with an auditorium, ship restaurant, and dance hall, constructed a hot salt-water plunge, and assembled a block-long arcaded company street with Venetian architecture.
Tourists, mostly arriving on the "Red Cars" of the Pacific Electric Railway from Los Angeles and Santa Monica, then rode the Venice Miniature Railway and gondolas to tour the town.
In 1923 Charles Lick assembled the Lick Pier at Navy Street in Venice, adjoining to the Ocean Park Pier at Pier Avenue in Ocean Park.
When it was proposed that Venice be took in to Los Angeles, the board of trustees voted to hold an election.
Annexation was allowed in the election in November 1925, and Venice was formally took in to Los Angeles in 1926.:8 Los Angeles had took in the Disneyland of its day and proceeded to remake Venice in its own image.
Los Angeles had neglected Venice so long that, by the 1950s, it had turn into the "Slum by the Sea." The Venice Shoreline Crips and the Latino Venice 13 (V-13) are the two chief gangs active in Venice.
According to a Los Angeles City Beat article, by 2003, many Los Angeles Westside gang members resettled in the town/city of Inglewood. Author John Brodie challenges the idea of gentrification causing change and commented "...
Project of the Los Angeles Times, Venice is adjoined on the northwest by Santa Monica, on the northeast by Mar Vista, on the southeast by Culver City, Del Rey and Marina Del Rey, on the south by Ballona Creek and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. On the east the boundary runs north-south on Walgrove Avenue to the neighborhood's easterly apex at Zanja Street, thus including the Penmar Golf Course but excluding Venice High School.
The City of Los Angeles official zoning map ZIMAS shows Venice High School as encompassed in Venice, as does Google Maps. on Venice Boulevard at Venice Way. 72 Market Street Oyster Bar and Grill was one of a several historical footnotes associated with Market Street in Venice, one of the first streets designated for commerce when the town/city was established in 1905.
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 industrialized petroleum derricks that were once ubiquitous in the region on the other side. Senior curator of American Art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Ilene Susan Fort, said this is one of the better New Deal murals both artistically and historically.
(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.
Venice Beach, which receives millions of visitors a year, has been labeled as "a cultural core known for its eccentricities" as well as a "global tourist destination." It includes the promenade that runs alongside to the beach (also the "Ocean Front Walk" or just "the boardwalk"), Muscle Beach, the handball courts, the paddle tennis courts, Skate Dancing plaza, the various beach volleyball courts, the bike trail and the businesses on Ocean Front Walk. Along the southern portion of the beach, at the end of Washington Boulevard, is the 'Venice Fishing Pier'.
The Venice Breakwater is an acclaimed small-town surf spot in Venice.
It is positioned north of the Venice Pier and lifeguard command posts and south of the Santa Monica Pier.
In late 2010, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors 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 positioned in the town/city of Los Angeles, the county is responsible for maintaining the beach under an agreement reached between the two governments in 1975. The Oakwood portion of Venice, also known as "Ghost Town" and the "Oakwood Pentagon," lies inland from the tourist areas and is one of the several historically African American areas in West Los Angeles; Latinos now constitute the overwhelming majority of the residents.
According to Los Angeles City Beat, "In Venice, the transformation is...
In 2012, an article in the Los Angeles Times predicted that the wine shops, cafes, restaurants and other businesses opening on Rose Avenue adjoining to Oakwood would soon lead to the other streets of Venice being transformed into upmarket areas. Xinachtli, a Latino student group from Venice High School and subset of MECh - A, refers to Oakwood as one of the last beachside communities of color in California.
East Venice is a racially and ethnically different residential neighborhood of Venice that is separated from Oakwood and Milwood (the region south of Oakwood) by Lincoln Boulevard, extending east to the border with the Mar Vista neighborhood, near Venice High School and Santa Monica Municipal Airport.
Aside from the commercial strip on Lincoln (including the Venice Boys and Girls Club and the Venice United Methodist Church), the region almost entirely consists of small homes and apartements as well as Penmar Park and (bordering Santa Monica) Penmar Golf Course.
A housing project, Lincoln Place Apartment Homes, assembled by the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles is presently undergoing a $140 million renovation to add 99 new market-rate apartment homes and to update the remaining 696 existing homes.
Enumeration counted 37,705 inhabitants in the 3.17-square-mile Venice neighborhood an average of 11,891 citizens per square mile, about the norm for Los Angeles; in 2008, the town/city estimated that the populace had increased to 40,885.
The median age for inhabitants was 35, considered the average for Los Angeles; the percentages of inhabitants aged 19 through 49 were among the county's highest. Venice is known as a hangout for the creative and the artistic. In the 1950s and 1960s, Venice became a center for the Beat generation.
Originally positioned at the Venice home of Pritzker Prize winning architect and SCI-Arc founder Thom Mayne, the Architecture Gallery was in existence for just ten weeks in 1979 and featured new work by then-emerging architects Frank Gehry, Eric Owen Moss, and Morphosis. Constructed on a long, narrow lot in 1981, the Indiana Avenue Houses/Arnoldi Triplex was designed Frank Gehry in partnership with artists Laddie Dill and Charles Arnoldi. Frank Gehry has designed a several well-known homes 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 Anjelica Huston, on Windward Avenue. In the 1970s, prominent performance artist Chris Burden created some of his early, groundbreaking work in Venice, such as Trans-fixed. Other notable artists who maintained studios in the region include Charles Arnoldi, Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Baldessari, Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, James Georgopoulos, Dennis Hopper, and Ed Ruscha. Organized by the Hammer Museum over the course of one weekend in 2012, the open-air Venice Beach Biennial (in reference to the Venice Biennale in Italy) brought together 87 artists, including site-specific projects by established artists like Evan Holloway, Barbara Kruger as well as boardwalk veteran Arthure Moore. In the 1980s and 1990s Venice Beach became a mecca for street performing turning it into a tourist attraction that rivaled many of southern California's other destinations.
Venice was where legendary modern band The Doors were formed in 1965 by UCLA alums and Venice bohemians Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison.
The 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 outside basketball courts, a children's play area, a improve room, a lighted American football field, an indoor gymnasium without weights, picnic tables, and an unlighted soccer field. Venice is a neighborhood in the town/city of Los Angeles represented by District 11 on the Los Angeles City Council.
City services are provided by the town/city of Los Angeles.
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. Forty-nine percent of Venice inhabitants aged 25 and older had earned a four-year degree by 2000, a high figure for both the town/city and the county.
First Lutheran School of Venice, private, 815 Venice Boulevard The Los Angeles Public Library operates the Venice Abbot Kinney Memorial Branch. The Los Angeles Fire Department operates Station 63, which serves Venice with two engines, a truck, and an ALS rescue ambulance.
The Los Angeles Police Department serves the region through the Pacific Community Police Station as well as a beach sub-station. Venice Beach is the command posts of the Lifeguard Division of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
The command posts building used to be the City of Los Angeles Lifeguard Headquarters until Los Angeles City and Santa Monica Lifeguards were consolidated into the County in 1975.
The Los Angeles County Lifeguards safeguard 31 miles (50 km) of beach and 70 miles (110 km) of coastline, from San Pedro in the south, to Malibu in the north.
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.
Rundberg, Los Angeles City Council member (1957 65), opposed Venice beatniks Charles Winchester Breedlove, Los Angeles City Council member, 1933 45, supported legalized tango games Dozens of movies and hundreds of tv shows and even video games have used locations in Venice, including its beach, its pleasure piers, the canals and colonnades, the boardwalk, the high school, even a particular hamburger stand. Some of them are: 1972: One Pair of Eyes - Reyner Banham loved Los Angeles architectural critic Reyner Banham explores Los Angeles in 1972.
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