View Venice Canal L A
by Joseph Hollingsworth
Title
View Venice Canal L A
Artist
Joseph Hollingsworth
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Photograph - Digital
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Venice of America was founded by tobacco millionaire Abbot Kinney in 1905 as a beach resort town. When Venice of America opened on July 4, 1905, Kinney had dug several miles of canals to drain the marshes for his residential area and bring a taste of Venice to America. He also built a 1,200-foot long pleasure pier with an auditorium, ship restaurant, and dance hall, constructed a hot salt-water plunge, and built a block-long arcaded business street with Venetian architecture. The pier burned a decade later but the canals became a neighborhood that people both lived in and took gondola rides down. It was Kinney’s attempt to bring the beauty of Venice to Southern California.
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September 28th, 2017
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