Ah the good ol days of the 60’s & early 70’s when you could leave your garage door open all day long, leave the windows open all night long, take off in the morning to surf & skateboard and not return home till lunch or dinner and your parents never got worried, gawd damn I miss those days, good times in deed! 🇺🇸🤙🏼
Yes, like I remember Venice Beach used to be a really cool place back then. I was 16 years old in 1969 growing up in California. I would not change it for the world.
The soundtrack to part's one and two are phenomenal, I wish I had a time machine to go back to 1971 would have been 4 years old but to be a teenager back then 😊❤❤❤
I was 7 when this film was taken. Grew up going to Venice Beach in the late 70's & 80's & it still was nothing like it is now. Too many fucking people in Calif now & it's been destroyed! Moved to Tenn 4 years ago but will always be a So. Cal girl in my heart, even though it makes me sad how it's been ruined.😢😢😢
These videos made me cry , I'm so blessed to have lived the last glimmer of true venice Beach life. And it's my friend Tequila Mockingbird singing!¡!!❤😂
I'm not 100% on this observation but at 8.39 in this video I think l see a person who could possibly be Jim Morrison walking with friends. In the group of four people walking the second person from the left walks like him and it looks like the clothing he was photographed in before leaving for Paris, March, 1971. This guy certainly walks and flicks his hair back just like Jim did. From what i can make it the face features definitely look the same. Does anybody agree with me or is this just some random guy out for a walk. I'm a big Doors fan and traveled from Ireland to California twenty years ago to visit most of the doors locations and Venice was one of them.This film needs to be up scaled to 4k and that could help figure this one out. Please reply and tell me what you think. Am l pissing against the wind. This could be the last time Jim was filmed in America. Let us know.
i was only 3 when this was filmed but i well remember when venice still mostly looked like this. and these days when i watch this old footage i never get over how thin everybody was back then! my dad also had an 8mm camera and filmed constantly throughout my childhood which he eventually tansfered over to vhs. for various reasons that footage is now gone forever and there are no words to describe how much i wish i still had it.
Thoise were the best time's growing up in Venice, it's not the same anymore I visit 1 or 2 times a week and usually hang out on the pier listening to 60s music bring back memories. We'd spend a lot of time fishing on the pier I still see my old friends I fished with since we were teenagers. People from Venice have a strong bond that's called . VENICE PRIDE
Aloha Tequila. Loved the Dee Da Days, Texas Teri, Leslie Kanary, Bubble and the punk rock. Geri Lewis and I have been doing hella interviews for the Venice Surf A thon documentary. Prost.
I remember helping Green Power give out free food when Pig Tackaberry of the LAPD metro squad grabs the microphone to announce an unlawful assembly which caused 108 busts aven though there were 14,000 on Venice Beach on Sunday April 20, 1969… The order came when John Mayall was about to play
Fantastic footage! Did you shoot this??? I was looking closely to see if my family or I were caught on film as we lived on Rose at that time and played on the drain, and had family picnics to the left of drain-I thought the kid building the sand castle was me.
I was 11 at this point, wound up living in the Jim Morrison Motel at 14 Westminster in the 80's. Found myself outdoors in 85, went to Oregon in 86, built a modest career, got myself a home, and lived happy ever since. I would never go back, it's just not the same. I do miss the sea, the fog at night, and the breeze off the water, but here I have trees, deer in my yard and no cops up my hindquarters for no particular reason. The homeless and the gen Z types can have the place, my Native California doesn't exist anymore.
i'm envious. i'm 55 and on permanent disability but may very well have to leave L.A. county at some point simply because i will not be able to afford to rent anywhere.
its pretty much the same except instead of hippies and bikers, its gentrifiers and homeless skaters who used to live there before you had to be a millionaire. must have been cool to pay low rent and have neighbors like denis hopper.
