Pictorial History of Venice, California, Coastal Beach community and suburb of Los Angeles. A documentary by Tom Sewell, a long term resident of Venice, Ca, Artist, Entrepreneur, etc.
A nice little video about the founding and early history of Venice. I was born and raised there in the middle of WW2 and by then Venice was rapidly declining. I graduated from Venice High School in 1961 and my mother graduated from VHS in 1930. Back then it was a community dominated by the working poor and the closer you lived to canals or the beach the cheaper the rent was. Originally it was called Venice of America. Growing up there back in the 40s and 50s we referred to my old hometown of where the debris meets the sea.
@ganguskan8 Are you asking when the footage is from, or when the documentary itself was made? The footage looks like it is from 1905-1920. The documentary looks like it was made in the 1970s or 80s. Does anyone else know when the documentary itself was made?
are those reels of the original venice beach canals? if so lost history that most people dont know about! did they get paved due to the great depression?
Very interesting, but it's too bad the music is so overbearing and the sound quality is so bad. I can tell by the graphics used for the title this was made in the early-70's. I would say 1973. Those letter graphics were very popular in 1973 and 1974.
