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July Beachhead - pdf file

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CONTENTS

PAGE ONE

Happy Birthday Venice - July 4, 1905

• Photo: Postcard of Lagoon, mailed Oct. 3, 1916
• Photo: Post Office Grand Opening, Dec. 9, 1939
• Photo: Poster Advertising July 4 Parade
• Photo: Rally to Save the Venice Post Office, 2012

PAGE TWO

Staff Box, Mission Statement, Sustainers, Subscription rates

Thanks for your generous donations

Letters:

• Thanks for the Metaphors - Jim Smith
• Inspired - Cory Shumaker
• Response to Patrick Frank - Alan Arch

PAGE THREE

Post Office Goes Private? - Jim Smith

• Photo: Post Office Grand Openning , Dec. 9, 1939

Lincoln Place Cats Need a Home - Barbara Eisenberg

Not Born on the Fourth of July - Ronald McKinely

PAGE FOUR

Bud Van Osdall Dies in His RV - Peggy Lee Kennedy

The Life and Death of Mikey - Ian Dean

• Photo of Michael Lee Samuelson
• Art: Passion of the Punk

PAGE FIVE

The Prospects for Venice Cityhood - Jim Smith

• Photo: The Great Venice Assembly

PAGE SIX

Beach Curfew Violates Law

• Photo: Moon over Venice

Sun Exposure: Benefits and Cautions - Marissa Peck

Ad: Pilates on Venice

PAGE SEVEN

Nuch says Uber Alles to Public Safety - Greta Cobar

• Photo: VNC Meeting, June 19 - Greta Cobar

Cannabis is in the Weeds - Anne Alvarez

• Graphic: Medical Marijuana - Nature's Best & Safest Medicine

PAGE EIGHT

The Hammer Museum's Venice Beach Biennial

• Photo: Logo
• Photo: Artist Arthur Moore - Greta Cobar

Juan's new hat

• Photo: Greta Cobar

Ad: Abbot's Habit

Ad: Dale Newman Design

PAGE NINE

4th of July in Venice, 1905 - Vanessa Cabello

• Postcard: Street Scene at Venice, Cal.

Ray Bradbury, Martian and Venetian:
Gone with the Transit of Venus

• Photo: The Transit of Venus Across the Sun
• Photo: Chuck Bloomquist and telescope

PAGE TEN

Swami X Speaks

• New photo by Ray Rae

Introducing: The Venice Symphony Orchestra

• Photo: Violinist

Fundraiser for Venice Poetry Walls

• Photo - Venice Paparazzi

Ad: electric lodge

PAGE ELEVEN

Poetry

• Transition - Jim Smith
• For Jim - Hillary Kaye
• Stream of Consciousness - Heather Freed
• What - Ronald K. Mc Kinley
• Memorial: The decades roll away
• Oh Beautiful For Spacious Skies From Sea...To Shining Sea! - Tina Catalina Cochran
• Venice Desderada - Cameron Prior
• Guevara - Nadja Tesiich
• Mitt: Don't Run (With Scissors) - Hal Bogotch
• the sound of cabrillo - paul tanck

PAGE TWELVE

Ray Bradbury - continued from page 9

• Photo: Ray Bradbury on the Venice Canals, 1963
• Sidebar: Ray Bradbury and the Free Monorail System

The Life and Death of Mikey - continued from page 4

• Photo: Mikey

PAGE THIRTEEN

"Make all those poor people go away, Daddy!" - Mary Getlein

Summer Brings Glimmer of Hope to Venice Skills Center - Charles Thomas

• Photo: Building at Venice Skills Center

Political Cartoon: California schools - Monte Wolverton

PAGE FOURTEEN

Evicted Family Camps Out At Former Home - CJ Gronner

Photo: Venice, 1924 - Looking north from the Lagoon (also appeared in the first Beachhead, Dec. 1968)

Ad: Sinners & Saints

Ad: Nutritional Warehouse

PAGE FIFTEEN

Calendar

PAGE SIXTEEN

Photo: New mural of Stuart Perkoff and Philomene Long - by Jim Smith

Photo: Cafe Collage before the White Out

Ad: Cairo Cowboy

Ad: 4th Annual Summer Fest, July 28-29