Departures is KCET's hyper-local web documentary, community engagement tool and digital literacy program about the cultural history of Los Angeles' neighborhoods.
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From the early days of Kinney’s Venice of America to the grand opening of the millennial Skate Park, the beach in Venice has come to represent one of LA’s most generous and eccentric public spaces. Like the boardwalk, the beach makes room for all and seldom discriminates. Although some commercial forces that are trying to homogenize and privatize the public experience, beach goers that frequent the recreation center, muscle beach, tides, piers, and sands will not let go, because Venice beach, is all encompassing.
Index
8 Sunshine:
The list of accomplishments linked to Ruth Galanter during her 15-year stint as a councilwoman in Venice are astonishing.
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Dance marathons became the thing to do is Los Angeles during the 1920s and nowhere was this more popular and visible than in Venice.
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Rudnick's Venice Oceanarium, at the Venice Pier is a makeshift presentation on a portable table with over 25 years' worth of collected speciemns.
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The Venice Pavilion originally built as recreation facility in the 1960's has played a multitude of roles based on its many contributing forces.
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The Venice Recreation Center is a place for many forms of exercise. Its facilities include a weight pin, a skate park, basketball, handball, and paddle tennis courts and the famed muscle beach.
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Muscle Beach is an outdoor gym frequented by spectating tourists and some of the world's best bodybuilders.
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Professor and lifeguard Arthur Verge is equal parts storyteller and encyclopedia when it comes to the history of lifeguarding.
8 Sunshine:
From the early days of Kinney's Venice of America to the grand opening of the millennial Skate Park, the beach in Venice has come to represent one of LA's most generous and eccentric public spaces.
Funders and Partners
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