Meals on Wheels West

Meals on Wheels West has been serving Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Marina Del Rey, and Venice since 1974. They deliver meals to people of all ages who are unable to shop or cook for themselves. People who can’t make their own food generally suffer from...

Venice Family Clinic

The Venice Family Clinic has served for over fifty years as a community health center in the Venice region. The clinic was started by Philip Rossman, MD and Mayer B. Davidson, MD in 1970. In the old days, care was provided through a borrowed dental storefront in...

Venice Japanese American Memorial Monument

Have you visited the Venice Japanese American Memorial Monument lately?  It sits on the northwest corner of Venice and Lincoln Boulevards, and pays tribute to the 1000+ Japanese Americans in the Los Angeles area who were deported to the Manzanar internment camp...

Friends of the Venice Library

Former United States President John F. Kennedy once wrote: “If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries.” This is just as true in...

Venice Coin Toss

View post on imgur.com Did you know the birth of Venice was the result of a coin toss gone awry?  We owe it all to a land developer who was a transplant from New Jersey and had a unique vision for a city by the sea. January 1904, Los Angeles: Abbot Kinney, land...