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  Venice, Los Angeles, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Venice Beach is understood to include the beach, the promenade that runs parallel to the beach ("Ocean Front Walk" or just "the boardwalk"), Muscle Beach, the tennis courts, the numerous beach volleyball courts, the bike trail and the businesses and residences that have their addresses on Ocean Front Walk.
Venice is today a vibrant area of Southern California and it continues a tradition of progressive social change involving prominent Westsiders.
Venice Beach is the headquarters of the Los Angeles County Lifeguard Division of the Fire Department.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Venice,_California   (1273 words)

  
 Venice, California
Welcome to Venice, California Venice began as a residential community in the 1910's and 20's, but has since developed into a Pacific Playland and is both a resort town and residential community.
Venice, as its name implies, was originally adorned with the style and unique flair you would find when traveling to Venice Italy, complete with miles of water filled canals, gondolas and of course the architectural styling of the Venetial Renaissance.
Venice California originally was to be a copy of Venice, Italy, canals and all, but only a few of the original canals remain today.
movinginfo.us /California/Venice   (132 words)

  
 Travel Guide - Venice Whaler, California   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Venice offers excellent public recreational facilities including paddle tennis courts, not quite Wimbledon, though it seems to attract quite a lot of sweaty bodies, basketball courts for white men to practice jumping and that great Irish sport of handball at the beach.
The Venice fishing pier is a great place for anglers to spend a weekend afternoon, and if the catch is slim, they can rehearse their tall tales so when the reach the Venice Whaler, they are only red faced from the sun.
For those who find themselves in Venice after a traumatic separation from their armchairs, as in natural born spectators, there are volleyball, paddle tennis, handball and fitness competitions, plus skateboarding exhibitions and a host of other events as in LA's foremost pastime "people watching" on the famous Venice Beach boardwalk.
www.venicewhaler.com /travelvenicebeach.htm   (642 words)

  
 travel Venice Beach pictures and a virtual tour guide
Venice California was a one man's dream of a place to resemble Venice, Italy.
At first Venice was a romantic network of canals but Kinney's idea never really worked, and with the arrival of cars and freeways to LA the canals were abounded.
Venice Beach is mostly famous for its boardwalk featuring unique and unusual street performers, palm readers, shops and restaurants, a basketball court, a playground and of course "muscle beach".
www.skylightweb.com /losangeles/venice.html   (478 words)

  
 Venice Venice, California (Cities)
Venice, California is a great beach resort to live in or visit.
Venice is located in Los Angeles County on the western city limits of Los Angeles between Santa Monica and Long Beach along Highway 1 near the Santa Monica Bay and the Pacific Ocean.
Venice is part of the Los Angeles-Long Beach, California metro area.
www.ohwy.com /ca/v/venice.htm   (144 words)

  
 Reviews Venice California Hotel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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www.netreviews.info /Hotel/Trader-Hotel/Venice-California-Hotel.cfm   (744 words)

  
 Venice Beach, California photos of Beach, Canals, shops
Venice, California may bare the name of an Italian city but comparing it to that European location is like comparing apples and oranges.
Though the California beach community located in the Santa Monica Bay between Marina del Rey and Santa Monica has canals and was created as the Venice-of-America in 1905, it is Southern California to the core.
There is pay parking at the Venice Pier lot at the end of Washington Street, limited street parking and also shuttles that travel regularly from remote lots to the beach.
www.beachcalifornia.com /venice.html   (843 words)

  
 Venice Real Estate and Homes for Sale in Los Angeles County, California
Venice is a small beach community with a big history.
Venice offers a wide and diverse range of housing opportunities, from stately turn-of-the-century craftsman-built homes and California bungalows to avant-garde contemporary homes and loft-style residential studios.
Venice’s real estate is built up of many beautifully landscaped communities offering a wide selection of both condominiums and single-family homes.
www.venice-homes-for-sale.com   (599 words)

  
 Venice California History Web Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Venice California was considered the "Coney Island of the Pacific" during the first half of the 20th Century.
It was a town built to resemble Venice, Italy and with its network of canals, business district built in Venetian architectural style, and its two huge amusement piers, it became the finest amusement resort on the America's West Coast.
The 43 modern color photographs used to illustrate the 1996 Venice Map are postcards sold at several stores and at Stanton's weekend table on Venice's Ocean Front Walk.
naid.sppsr.ucla.edu /venice   (645 words)

  
 Venice California City Guide ... All About the Venice Beach Community
Venice is a small beach community located west of downtown Los Angeles between Santa Monica and Marina del Rey.
Much of the social scene of Venice centers around the art/creative community with many art shows/openings, little theater and night spots featuring local talent.
Venice's many small vintage clothing, artist's galleries, and custom furniture and antique shops are a haunt for designers and trendy entertainment types.
www.cjcole.com /cm   (263 words)

  
 Venice Beach in Los Angeles - Guide to Los Angeles's Venice Beach
Venice Beach has the usual staples of a California beach: sun, sand, and the vast expanse of Pacific Ocean.
Venice Beach is located in the coastal area of Los Angeles, south of Santa Monica, in the city of Venice, CA.
It is accessible from the 405 freeway and the Pacific Coast Highway (the 1).
losangeles.travelape.com /attractions/venice-beach   (718 words)

  
 Venice Beach, Marina del Rey Nightlife, Nightclub, Bars and Parties ­ PubClub.com!
Venice possesses a quirky atmosphere, colorful seaside performers and a laid-beach life with a bit of Harley and Hollywood sprinkled in – in short the entire outdoor experience that defines Los Angeles.
Venice is also a good place to pick up tickets to tapings of TV shows.
Venice is located adjacent to Marina del Rey, home of the world's largest man-made marina.
www.pubclub.com /losangeles/venice.htm   (1068 words)

  
 California Beach Cities Vacation Travel Guide
is California's largest county with a population of approx.
It is one of the nine counties in the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area with a population close to 1,003,900.
The sixth mission in California was established here by Padre Junipero Serra on October 9, 1776, and was named Mission San Francisco de Asis a la Laguna de los Dolores (Saint Francis of Assisi at the Lagoon of Sorrows).
www.beachcalifornia.com /cities.html   (1155 words)

  
 Venice California - 'Coney Island of the Pacific' history book.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Venice California is 100 years old in 2005.
Venice and adjoining Ocean Park in their heyday formed the nucleus of a gigantic amusement complex, the Disneyland of its day.
Venice's success as both a town and resort came from its ability to attract millions of free spending tourists to its beach and amusement piers each year.
naid.sppsr.ucla.edu /venice/articles/bookstore.html   (1135 words)

  
 Brick on the Venice Ocean Front Walk?
Two architects made the bold suggestion to resurface the Venice boardwalk with clay bricks instead of asphalt and the great Venice brick debate was born.
Jeffrey Stanton, author of the book, Venice California, Coney Island of the Pacific, said the boardwalk actually had boards in 1905, but they were replaced with concrete a year or two later.
Venice resident Steve Oles is disappointed that the commission delayed the renovations to continue the debate
www.feinstein.org /smoutlook/veniceofwbrickornot.html   (1746 words)

  
 Venice Beach is Calling You   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Venice is, after all, second only to Disneyland as the top tourist destination in L.A. And it aint got no publicist.
Kinney indulged his penchant for big, ungainly dreams in every detail of his “Venice of America,” dredging 16 miles of canals, importing genuine gondoliers to sing in Italian, constructing arched bridges and ornate facades and building a massive pier that featured a wild amusement park and a dance hall that held 600 Jazz-era swingers.
Today, Venice is home to the most diverse population of any part of L.A. — and they are not what you would call shy.
www.brntwdmagazine.com /jan.feb.02/venice/venice-2.html   (1675 words)

  
 Venice Beach
VENICE BEACH * The Video *- Raw, pure, uncesored, unrated tapestry of the essence of the Venice Beach experience at the beginning of the 21st Century.
Venice Beach, California- Visit the most comprehensive directory to Venice Beach.
Venice Beach- Photos of the latest artists in venice and a live venice beach cam.
www.photo.net /ca/venice-beach   (241 words)

  
 Venice Garden Tour - Benefitting NYA's Las Doradas Children's Center and Learning Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Venice Garden Tour is an annual event in Venice, California that showcases unusual and delightful gardens that exemplify the creative and original tastes of their owners, as well as the talents of local landscape designers.
The Garden Tour was conceived by Venice landscape designer Jay Griffith and Venice community leaders Linda Lucks and Jan Brilliot as a fundraising event to benefit the Neighborhood Youth Association's Las Doradas Children's Center and Learning Center.
NYA was founded in 1906 by the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles and has enhanced the lives of thousands of "at risk" children.
www.venicegardentour.org   (168 words)

  
 History of Playa del Rey California
During the late 1880's land boom in Southern California, one visionary named Moye L. Wicks saw the potential of Playa del Rey as a harbor.
After the Santa Fe Railroad broke the Union Pacific's railroad monopoly in Southern California by building a line north from San Diego, they were searching for a major ocean terminal near Los Angeles for the markets of the Orient.
Tide gates, which maintained high water in the lagoon, had to be dynamited during a heavy winter rainstorm because nearby Venice and the vast flat ground between became flooded.
www.playadelrey.com /history.html   (1218 words)

  
 Venice California Real Estate
Venice is one of California’s most interesting places to live.
Considered the "Coney Island of the Pacific" during the first half of the 20th Century, Venice was originally designed to resemble Venice, Italy.
The beach is in many cases is the lifeblood of Venice.
www.relocate-america.com /states/CA/cities/venice.htm   (392 words)

  
 Betsy Goldman Sells Venice Beach California ... in real estate and as a way of life
Venice, whose origin began with a flip of a coin, is an eclectic beach community...
Developed by Abbot Kinney in 1905, it was patterned after Venice Italy with Italianate buildings and a canal system, and was known as Venice-of-America.
Venice has gone through many transformations through the years 3; once seedy enough to be used as Tijuana in Orson Bean´s "A Touch of Evil" to multi-million dollar homes today.
www.betsysellsvenice.com   (422 words)

  
 Venice Beach, CA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Venice Beach, California Summer 2002 Venice Beach photos by Richard Strauss, 17- 28th Ave #107, Venice, CA 90291 (Click for larger image) Daryl Bacon and Tarot Stephens Lilly Bartmasser, Cyrus...
Venice Beach, CA back A hundred years ago a developer created the town to resemble Venice, Italy, including a network of canals lined with elegant homes a few...
Following a trail that went from Venice, Italy to Venice Beach, CA, he talked to a number of her contemporaries, her family, and friends to come up with an...
www.caoutdoors.com /Venice_Beach_CA.htm   (3887 words)

  
 Maps of Venice Beach California
A simple fl and white street map of the neighborhoods from Venice Beach inland (from CJ andJay Cole Realty).
Venice Beach begins on the left of that harbor and the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is located to the right of tha harbor (from GeSource.ac.uk).
A 22 x 27 inch detailed topographical map of Venice, California is available from the Aliens on Earth Bookstore.
www.skatelog.com /countries/us/ca/venice-beach/maps.htm   (273 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Guaicuri Indians
A group of small tribes, speaking dialectic forms of a common language, probably of distinct stock, formerly occupying part of Lower California.
After Salvatierra, who died in 1717, the most prominent name associated with these missions is probably that of Father Ugarte, who first explored the Gulf of California in a ship of his own building.
The mission day began with Mass and a short recitation of a catechism in the Indiana language, followed by breakfast, after which the workers scattered to their daily tasks.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/07044b.htm   (813 words)

  
 Berkeley California.com: Hotels - Real Estate - History
Berkeley California is one of the most unique and exciting cities in the world.
Another aspect of Berkeley's diversity and appeal is its close physical proximity to the general San Francisco bay area and to the greater Northern California region.
In addition to fabulous Berkeley hotels and restaurants, the city is also home to numerous lush, beautifully preserved park areas featuring a broad scope of recreational facilities, family activities, and serene, undisturbed settings.
www.berkeley-california.com   (334 words)

  
 Venice California / Santa Monica
He was the man who "build" Venice as "Coney island from the pacific".
During the sixties Venice and the canals were a haven for hippies and musicians, and in a way it still is. A few of the "hippies" from that period you can still find on the boulevard of Venice these days.
When in Venice you must not forget to visit this workout studio, where people like Arnold Schwarzenegger use to work out.
www.xs4all.nl /~alexcity/venice.htm   (222 words)

  
 Beach bars, entertainment, Los Angeles - Venice Whaler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Located in Washington Square at Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California.
The Venice Whaler Bar and Grill was established in June of 1999.
Opened only since early summer of 1999, this two-story corner tavern at the foot of the Venice Pier is a convenient stop for Venice's famed rollerbladers, cyclists, add bikini-clad sun worshippers, along with the seasonal influx of sightseers...."
www.venicewhaler.com   (327 words)

  
 Luxury Venice Beach Suites Hotel Rentals Near Marina del Rey.
Experience the historic and eclectic charm of the Venice Beach Suites and Hotels, offering fully-furnished studio suites right on exciting Venice Beach and the world-famous Venice Beach Ocean Front Walk.
Conveniently located on the Venice Beach Ocean Front Walk, our stylish hotel is steps from Venice Beach, the Venice Beach Boardwalk, the Venice Bike Path and Venice Pier.
Enjoy A Lively Trip To Venice Beach and Los Angeles, California.
www.venicebeachsuites.com   (393 words)

  
 The Venice Suites - better than a Hotel! (310) 566-5224 - your dream vacation in California
Guests will find the world-famous Venice Beach and the bohemian charm of Venice Beach Boardwalk accessible from their front door, and Santa Monica’s Main Street and many other Southern California coastal attractions within walking distance.
Venice Suites, with its wide selection of rooms, offers short-term furnished rentals & extended stay packages for business, holiday & vacation travelers.
Venice Suites is one of a trio of vacation rentals and residences that borders on Venice Beach and Santa Monica in Southern California.
www.venicesuites.com   (398 words)

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