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Two gondolas from Naples, a Long Beach, California neighborhood built on three islands, were rented to take passengers on the Venice Canals as they had in 1906. The Venice Canals celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the restoration with another party in 2003. [citation needed]
Venice is a neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles within the Westside region of Los Angeles County, California, United States. Venice was founded by Abbot Kinney in 1905 as a seaside resort town. It was an independent city until 1926, when it was annexed by Los Angeles.
The Lagoon in its present configuration is a narrow elongated area covered by very shallow water and is separated from the ocean by a strand or bar of beach sand. Its entire length lies within 1,000 yards (910 m) of the ocean. It connects to the Venice Canals to the northwest and to the ocean channel entrance to Marina Del Rey on the southeast.
Ship Cafe (Venice, California) Shulamit Nazarian; Silicon Beach; Snap Inc. ... Venice Canal Historic District; Venice celery strike of 1936; Venice Fishing Pier;
The canals have since become an expensive residential section and many large, modern houses have been built. The Venice Canal Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. The Venice Pier's demise came in 1946 when the city did not renew the lease on the tidelands.
Venice of America may refer to the following places: Original name of Venice, Los Angeles and the Venice Canal Historic District, in California; Nickname of Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Nickname of Cape Coral, Florida; Nickname of Holyoke, Massachusetts, particularly its downtown, which contains the Holyoke Canal System; Nickname of Lowell ...
The Governor Edmund G. Brown California Aqueduct is a system of canals, tunnels, and pipelines that conveys water collected from the Sierra Nevada and valleys of Northern and Central California to Southern California. [4]
[1] It is within the larger neighborhood of Venice on the westside of Los Angeles, California. The area is noted as an "important example of African-American life in Southern California during the early 20th century". [2] The neighborhood has alternately been referred to as "Ghost Town", [3] "Dogtown" [4] and the "Oakwood Pentagon". [5]