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Venice, originally called "Venice of America", was founded by wealthy developer Abbot Kinney in 1905 as a beach resort town, 14 miles (23 km) west of Los Angeles. He and his partner Francis Ryan had bought 2 miles (3 km) of ocean-front property south of Santa Monica in 1891.
Wagon Wheel is a densely populated, planned neighborhood of Oxnard, California at the intersection of U.S. Route 101 and Oxnard Boulevard. [1] The neighborhood was originally developed as an office, motel, and restaurant complex named Wagon Wheel Junction with a convenient roadside location near the historic community of El Rio.
Venice Beach may refer to: Venice, Los Angeles; Venice Beach, the actual beach in Venice, which includes: Venice Beach Boardwalk; Venice Beach Skatepark;
Gordon Biersch Brewing Company has won several American awards. At the Great American Beer Festival, they won gold in the category of Bohemian-style pilsner in 2004, [9] and in the category of German Style Schwarzbier in 2007, [10] and the Rauchbier brewed at the Gordon Biersch Restaurant in Annapolis, Maryland, won gold in 2014. [11]
[6] [7] [8] Starting in the 2000s, a group of Venice locals, headed by Jesse Martinez, organized an effort to build the Venice Beach Skatepark. [1] In April 2020, the park was covered in sand to discourage gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic. [9] Venice Skate Park filled with sand during pandemic, April 2020.
Replica of Inspiration (model, Myrna Loy) in front of Venice High School. The school was established in 1911 (then called "Venice Union Polytechnic High School") when classes were held in an old lagoon bathhouse two blocks from the beach. It moved to a new neo-romanesque structure at its present 29-acre campus two miles inland a decade later.
The Venice Art Walls are murals along the Venice Boardwalk [1] in Venice, Los Angeles, in the U.S. state of California.. According to David J. Del Grande of the Arizona Daily Star, "Venice Art Walls offers graffiti writers a place to paint and tag, with their creations curated by local graffiti production company Setting the Pace.
The area that is now Venice was originally the home of Paleo-Indians, with evidence of their presence dating back to 8200 BCE. [11] As thousands of years passed, and the climate changed and some of the Pleistocene animals that the Indians hunted became extinct, the descendants of the Paleo-Indians found new ways to create stone and bone weapons to cope with their changing environment.