December
2003

#270

35th Birthday Edition
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PAGE ONE

This issue is dedicated to the memory of Anna Haag, one of the founder of the Beachhead and proprietress of the Venice West

Anna Ricci Haag, 1937 - 2003
Godmother Muse Lady Queen - Take your Pick
- Carol Fondiller

35 Years of Venice and the Free Venice Beachhead - Tales of the Nude Beach and other strange events - Marcia Stone and Paul Tanck

Venice Envisioned – Community looks at Lincoln Blvd.
- Sheila Bernard

PAGE TWO

Staff Box, Mission Statement, Sustainers, Subscription rates

Letters

  • Support the Grocery Strikers - Shannon D. Donato
  • Ring in the New Year - Hans Etter
  • Happy Birthday - Howie Siegel
  • The Old Safeway - Bryan Rogers
  • Lincoln Blvd. - Stephanie Denyer

PAGE THREE

Out of the Litter Box - Ali Katz

Trammell Crow project rejected by Neighborhood Council - Jim Smith

Venice Neighborhood Council - Who's Out, Who's In?

PAGE FOUR

Public Service Announcement: GRVNC Stakeholders encourage to comment on Playa Vista Phase Two Draft EIR

Meet Fannie Chappel - Interview and Photo by Lydia Poncé

More Letters:

  • Santa Monica Airport - Joan Winters
  • Homeless in Venice - Ray Packard

The Parking Gangs of Venice - John Davis

Missing Beachheads - The Collective is looking for issues 72, 88, 89, 107, 142, 144, 178, 188, 189, 222.

PAGE FIVE

Lincoln Center NOT Moving Forward

  • Envision Venice Report by Laura Silagi
  • Do Not Let This Happen - Jerry Jaffe
  • Land Use Committee Reconsiders Support for Lincoln Center
  • Side view of proposed Lincoln Center

PAGE SIX AND SEVEN

35 Years of the Free Venice Beachhead

  • Where it started - John Haag
  • The Beachhead and Me - Chuck Bloomquist
  • The Beachhead and Moe - Moe Stavnezer
  • The Beachhead Today - Jim Smith
  • Photo: Carol Fondiller and John Haag receiving Chee Wah Wah Free Venice Beachhead Awards for Service to the Community - Photo by Lydia Poncé
  • Photo: BEACHHEAD COLLECTIVE, CIRCA 1979: Arnold Springer, Gerry Goldstein, Olga Palo, Joan Friedberg, Chuck Bloomquist, Lynn Bronstein, Brenda Harney, Emily Winters, Wendy Reeves

PAGE EIGHT

Anna Haag Remembered - Photos, newsclippings

PAGE NINE

Venice 1959 - Bill Fleeman

The Bookstore on Dudley - Kittly Bratton

Photos: Gas House and vicinity, early 60s - Shanna Baldwin

Photo: Manuella Theiss, Milton Bratton, and Shanna Baldwin...Milton owned the bookstore next to the Venice West Cafe. Courtesy of Shanna Baldwin.

PAGE TEN

Peace in Palestine/Israel – two views

  • Peace in Jerusalem - Pano Douvos
  • Peace of the conqueror, or peace with justice? - The Beachhead Collective

Party - Thanks to those who helped with the Beachhead Birthday Party, Nov. 22

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE BEACHHEAD! The following readers have given the Beachhead a gift as well as their congratulations. MANY THANKS and CHEE WAH WAH!

PAGE ELEVEN

Poetry

  • the holy three - Frank T. Rios
  • Poem for the Poets, Stuart, Jimmy, John, Bill and Tony - Shanna Baldwin
  • Remembrance - Hillary Kaye
  • Memories of Venice, 1956 - Christine Fulbright
  • FREE! FREE! FREE! - Lydia Poncé

Photo: Eastern Canal - Jim Smith

Ads:

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  • Stroh's Gourmet

Beyond Baroque - workshops

PAGE TWELVE

Beachhead Archive, March 1975 - Nude Venice Lives

Ad: Channel One Video

PAGE THIRTEEN

A Place I Call Home - Barbara Berner

Big Turkey Day in Iraq on Thanksgiving - Jim Smith

Val's Pharmacy - Photo by Jim Smith

Children, Youth, Families, Meeting at the Vera Davis Center, 7-9 PM, Jan. 29

Ad: William B. Leaf Automotive

PAGE FOURTEEN

Venice Step Team - Article and Photo by Lydia Poncé

Ad: Eviction Defense Network

PAGE FIFTEEN

Listing - Venice Organizations

Community Events

  • Diversity Fest - Dec. 7, 7 PM - Venice Center for Peace & Justice with the Arts, 2210 Lincoln Blvd.
  • Venice 2000 and The Nation Of Islam Present
    UNITY IN THE COMMUNITY, Dec. 11, Oakwood Rec. Center
  • Film Showings - Sponto Gallery and Midnight Special
  • Spanish Classes

Picket Line Healing

Ads:

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  • Free Venice T-Shirts

PAGE SIXTEEN

Poster - Watercolor by Ray Packard