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In the Old Days:
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In the Old Days:
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In the Old Days:
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In the Old Days:
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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
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Scott Shellstrom
Venice art
Dale Hartman
snapshots
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by
Pat Hartman
Ehrlich buildings
Homage to Old Venice
Unpainting the Town:
lost murals
Helen K. Garber photos
Art at the Rose Cafe'
New Venice Sign
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 Painting
by Pat Hartman
Postmarked 1914
1934 ad