home page table of contents writings paintings Venice in print other media poets nobody leaves Venice Venice music virtual boardwalk visual arts JJ JJ Fortuenti

Artists Roster

In the Old Days:
Night Scenes

In the Old Days:
Canals, Bridges

In the Old Days:
Gondolas

In the Old Days:
Lagoon and Midway

In the Old Days:
Miniature Railroad

In the Old Days:
Market Street

In the Old Days:
Mecca Buffet

In the Old Days:
Scenic Railway

In the Old Days:
1921 Amusements

In the Old Days:
Cabrillo Ship Cafe'

In the Old Days:
Venice Pier

Arielle Haze
Venice Photos

Arielle Haze views
Beach Art

Scott Shellstrom
Venice art

Dale Hartman
snapshots

Jack Chipman

Venice Paintings by
Pat Hartman

Ehrlich buildings
Homage to Old Venice

Chris Burden

Unpainting the Town:
lost murals

Helen K. Garber photos

Jeff Verges

Lance Diskan

Avid Brickman

Art at the Rose Cafe'

New Venice Sign

Robbie Conal

Venice-based Art

 

 

 

In the Old Days

Windward Avenue

Looking from the lagoon end of Windward toward the ocean end.

Looking from the Lagoon, which later was filled in to become the traffic circle, toward the ocean. The mast of the Cabrillo ship cafe is straight ahead, the Bandstand is the pointy roof just to the right of it. In the right foreground is the Lagoon Bathhouse.

Looking toward the Lagoon. St. Mark's Hotel is on the near left. The south side of Windward was not filled in with buildings until around 1915
Around 1908, this card misidentifies the view as looking west. Actually, it looks toward the Lagoon.
Postmarked 1912

Postmarked 1922

Ground was broken for St. Mark's Hotel on December 5,1904. It was one of Venice's original buildings. It was demolished in 1964. (The Venice Hotel was demolished in 1965.)
This card misidentifies Windward Ave. as the Midway
"Holiday Crowd"
 

 

Postcard copyright 1906
Postmarked 1907

WINDWARD
AVENUE

In 1905, the founding year of Venice, it was two blocks long, stretching between the canal system and the pier, lined with hotels that featured hot salt water in every room.

Postmarked 1909


Free Venice Beachhead
articles about Windward


Windward Avenue Sketches


Windward Avenue Painting
by Pat Hartman

Postmarked 1914

Painting by Pat Hartman

1934 ad

© 2004 - 2008 Pat Hartman

If any animations, pop-ups or other weird things show up, they were inserted by an evil third party, and I'd like to hear about it.

To report website malfunctions, please email webslave@virtualvenice.info

To receive VirtualVenice e-mail news: send a blank email with "subscribe" in the subject line

"Table of Contents" or site map here it is

Google
WWW http://www.virtualvenice.info