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Old 02-12-2021, 12:00 PM
 
Location: West Los Angeles and Rancho Palos Verdes
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This is what Venice was like before it became a slum for druggies:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bACK...ture=emb_title
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Old 02-17-2021, 07:39 PM
 
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I love the GAP band. Nice to see old LA.
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Old 02-17-2021, 07:40 PM
 
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This is what Venice was like before it became a slum for druggies:
Watch the movie Breakin' if you haven't already. There's cool scenes of folks breakdancing at Venice.
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Old 02-17-2021, 09:25 PM
 
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This is what Venice was like before it became a slum for druggies:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bACK...ture=emb_title
Venice has always been the run down beach area full of weirdos and freaks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17lkdqoLt44
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Old 02-17-2021, 10:01 PM
 
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When did it start to become filled with the homeless like it is now?

I know in the 90s they filled the show Pacific Blue there. I loved that show. They should do a remake.
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Old 02-18-2021, 09:14 AM
 
Location: Ca expat loving Idaho
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This is what Venice was like before it became a slum for druggies:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bACK...ture=emb_title
It used to be so fun to walk the Venice boardwalk. The guy that said “all aboard” in the first scene was the roller skating Swamy. He was always there
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Old 02-18-2021, 11:28 AM
 
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R.I.P. Adolfo aka Shabba Doo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt6-F11LZsQ&t=7s
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Old 02-18-2021, 11:29 AM
 
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Classic scene and song


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y15DS1LKh4g
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Old 02-18-2021, 11:32 AM
 
Location: West Los Angeles and Rancho Palos Verdes
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Venice has always been the run down beach area full of weirdos and freaks.
Not true. I went there often in the early 90's and it was not as you're characterizing it. Do you live in L.A.?
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Old 02-19-2021, 12:20 AM
 
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Not true. I went there often in the early 90's and it was not as you're characterizing it. Do you live in L.A.?
Currently? No. I live in OC. I grew up in Pasadena, own apartments in Long Beach, wife works at UCLA, and my best friend had an apartment literally on the Ocean Front Walk so I used to hang out there all the time.

Venice has absolutely attracted counterculture weirdos going back decades.


After annexation, the city of Los Angeles showed little interest in maintaining the unusual neighborhood. Most of the canals were filled in and paved over, and the former lagoon became a traffic circle. The neighborhood lacked the automobile-centric, homogeneous character that the city sought to cultivate in the post-World War II era, and was perceived as a dated, obsolete remnant of earlier decades' land speculation. Los Angeles had neglected Venice so long that, by the 1950s the neglect had led to the area being labeled the "Slum by the Sea". With the exception of new police and fire stations in 1930, the city spent little on improvements after annexation. The city did not pave Trolleyway (Pacific Avenue) until 1954 when county and state funds became available. Low rents for run-down bungalows attracted predominantly European immigrants (including a substantial number of Holocaust survivors) and young counterculture artists, poets, and writers. The Beat Generation hung out at the Gas House on Ocean Front Walk and at Venice West Cafe on Dudley.

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