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Rick Davidson Number 1, December 1, 1968 VENICE, California Copyright 1968 10, 000 copies FREE to Venice residents x EDITORIAL v This paper is a p>oem. It is Our subject this issue is Any reader cah contribute in the first of a series. Your par­ Venice. Our purpose is to ere- some way to our next poem. Any ticipation will decide how often ate a community. Venice resident may join-in our we appear. We would like to give you a collective staff decisions by This paper is a poem for the new poem every day. We hope to rowing to our next work meetin people. We decided not- to sell do it, for now, every two weeks. on Sunday, December 8, 8 p.m. à*t 1727 W. Washington Blvd. To vol­ it to some of you, but to give * • it to all of you. It is a poem Beachhaa.d is a non-profit en­ unteer by phone, call 399-7681. .for all the people. terprise produced entirely by The next poem you read may be It is also a paper made -by volunteer workers. Every resi^ your own. people who love to make poems dent of Venice is invited to and dig doing a newspaper which join our endeavor and help tcT de­ is also a poem. cide the outcome of each issue. Free Venice1. Venice, 1924, looking down the canal which is now Main Street. VENICE-OF-AMERICA ^ by JANE GORDON the La Ballona Township (now they broke ground on August 15. called Santa Monica, Ocean Park, 1904.. He conceived and built Venice, Del Rey, Palms, Culver all the unique Venice Features — • Next time you're in the Post City, etc.) was inhabited .by a the canal system, the Venice Office -- standing in line at 10 lot of sheep and U17 humans. Pier with its.auditorium and its of 5, right? " With half of Ven­ Santa Monica was developed roller coasters, .the St. Mark's ice lined up ahead of you, like first, and Kinney was one of man- Hotel, the Ship.Hotel and Restau­ you're- sure they'll clang the y businessmen responsible for rant. At the same time, he was» window shut just as itl^ about its rapid growth around the turn just as thorough in planning pun- your turn, the hand clutching of the century. He also did a lie facilities for his city- the unstamped letter narrowly es lot for Ocean Park, conceived streets, electric lightings com­ caping the guillotine — so the and built the Sawtelle Soldiers' plete pas and water systems, next time you're standing there Home (now the V.A.), and laid schools, p^rks, hospitals, etc? in line,Nfantasizing, check out the way for the P.E. Fed Cars to It werçt up, incredibly fast. the man on the wall. Not-em thé come out to the ocean. People stopped laughing, and Wanted poster; the^-orre in the mu But nobody was ready for his started buying in. Statistic: ral up on the "1^-ft-hand side as Venice-of-America. He envisioned in a period of 2 weeks in Novem­ you come in. His name is Abbott a sea-side resort, just like the ber (still '190«O,' $386,.000 were Kinney, and he's our Founding Fa one in Italy, complete with ca­ spent for. lots in the Venice ther. The first man to do "his nals and colonnades, singing gon­ area. own thing" in Venice. And he doliers and all manner of de­ Kinney lavished his city wit really did the whole' thing. lightful divertissements. They amuWments and attractions. A • called it "Kinney's Dream*" and 3efore Kinney began doing Ven were sure^-it /wéuld never come miniature railroad.ran through ice, the whole, area was empty off. C • rain part of town, there WAS marshland. • As a matter of fact, the "Race Thru e Clouds" ride, in 1880, the year he first came So he took* his men and mules, foe" eniçe Midway (along ücee to California, this arexa and all his vision and 8 fortune, and Con zed ba: ">age y X * v. v VENICE SÜRVIVÄt COMMITTEE \ . by JOHN HAAG in the future in dealing with "^ ,, \ , r A ., "The only real The Ve/iice Survival Committee public servanervantt s who think they ^"'^/f^Rcft Love is the love was formed on February 7, 1968, are our masters. It is also a for God- " after a meeting of about 150 Ven­ sign, as is this newspaper, that ice residents heard descriptions the Venice community finally isi - , . of violence, insults and unjusti­ emerging and getting itself to-f^i' &ce*nhr*nt k/*.lk fied arrests by Los Angeles Met­ gether. ro Squad officers called in to Meher Baba augment the regular L.A.P.D. for­ &2->&? Bookstore ces that occupy our community. A 2700 Pacific Ave demonstration at the Venice po­ Venice beach. lice station and police observa­ Jvrniliift, tion • patrols by VSC members caused the withdrawal of the Met­ ro SqjfSKi and a temporary reduc­ tion/of police harassment.\ IZ77 */• - VENICE At the trial of one of those PEACE arrested in February, a Metro AND "Squad officer said under oath FREEDOM that his orders were to "clean PART up the hippies." The Venice po­ lice still have those orders and 7 West have called in the Metro Squad ashington Blvd. several times recently to help. Venice, Ca. 90291 In August Venice police of­ (213) 399-7681 ficers increased their harass­ ment and intimidation along the meets 8 p. m. Ocean Front Walk. As a result, Wednesdays the VSC was reactivated. The VSC printed membership cards for use V^ïpoc*£T as identification in encounters with the police and distribute a . pamph.le— t explainir som• e of t:«e laws and practices most of­ ten uVe^d by jrolice- for harass­ ment purposes. ~ Renewed attacks by the Metro THE POT SHOP, COLUMN RIGHT Squad on the Venice commuait - 324 Sunset Ave. Venice PHIL CHAMBERJUf^ TRIP demonstrated how little prepared CHRISTMAS SALE This firLt column is dedicat­ the Survival Committee was to Dec. 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15 ed to Jim Cayton, who turned me cope with the problem. Meetings Noon to 9 pm 396-3303 on to the meaning of art in Ven­ with the police proved to be a Mugs, Casseroles, ice. The day I met him he was waste of time. On the other hand, Bottles, etc. resting on a boulder. He'd been active recruiting has trou it in stoneware digging holes in his lot at Park VSC membership to more than 'ßQ and the Boardwalk, in which he'd persons, and a first meeting of sunk logs more or less vertical­ attorneys and law students pro­ NORÄGAS BAIL BONDS ly. Elsewhere, lengths of log duced the beginnings of a pool weri» mounted horizontally. As I of legal talent available to the watched him resting the handle Committee. y PRO>**T A CONriDCNTIAL of his shovel between his legs,I \ ^HABLA E6PANOL The VSC is now collectif) re­ realized the category of activi­ ports "of police abuse, including ty that had arrested my trip a- illegal entry, searches without HOUR long fhe ocean front was ''sculp­ warrants, threats with puns, in­ tor at rest." I got him into a sults, beatings, false arrests rap in which he revealed to me and thefc of property for "evi­ L DELIVER TOO! his source of materials, and the dence." Anyone who knows of- such price of his lot, but not a peep incidents should pet in touch could I coax from him by'way of with the VSG. The reports will* Pizza. „Dogs. , an over-all explanation of his be used to document.' lawsuits a- Burgers Sandwiches meaning. Naturally, I split gainst the police. call for complete menu wonderinp about the guy. Was he Forty members of the Survive] serious? Does his creation have Committee met on November l*»th A k W Root lieer artistic meriu? My wonderings and demanded that Captain Robert on the beach led to raps with other artists killings, Commander of the Ven­ 3015 Ocean Front Walk -Venice who crossed my path, raps in ice police "cease at once his* • which the subject of the "Park practice of c^llinp in the Me tn This issue of Beachhead is ded­ Sculpture" inevitably switched Squad" or face a VSC .demand for icated to all our departed Drothers, to the need for. the painter»in his transfer out of Venice. The livmg and dead, who have loved Venice to bring his own work in­ VSC also demanded access to the enice, and in particular to Abbott to the out-of-doors, where, like police blotter; access tje^ny Kinney, Ron Boise, Stuart Perkoi'f, the Park Sculpture, it could be member who is jailed and jiames Maurice Lacey, John Thomas and experienced., Hence was it that of all police persoi>nel- ancf paid Jimmy Morris. To those who read, I conceived sculptural happening agents irr the Venice area. Ex­ greetings! '.»re would welcome you and hit on him with a proposal: pecting no response to its de "Could we use your Tot for an mands", the VSC is preparinp to- art show?" Without a flinch he carry out its program Without po­ drawled, "jf course. It*s an ex­ lice cooperation. cellent idea." The sound of his A VSC meetinp on *iovr er 21, voice seemed to imply I had attended by about 55.persons, de­ found the meaning of his work. cided to sponsor a December 1st More about the show next edition.
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