Venice Politicians

While the greater Venice area is known for arts, culture, food, and beautiful beaches, Venice has ties to many effective and charismatic politicians on the city, state, and national level. These leaders take many different approaches to the issues of the day, but...

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...

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...

Google Binocular Building

If you’ve ever walked down Venice’s Main Street, you might have noticed a pair of giant binoculars facing west on the facade of a building just south of Rose Avenue.  If you are a longtime westsider or Venice local, you might be aware that behind these giant...