July
2004

#276

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PAGE ONE

Chain Stores in Venice? - Artistic rendering of Abbot Kinney Blvd. by Eric Ahlberg

Big Election Win for Progressives - By Jim Smith

St. Mark's Hotel

PAGE TWO

Staff Box, Mission Statement, Sustainers, Subscription rates

Letters

  • Racism in Venice? - Camille Jacks
  • Beat Bush - Moe Stavnezer

Talk of the Town

Ad - GlenCrest B.B.Q.

PAGE THREE

Daniel Freeman Hospital: Still Fighting for Its Life - Theresa Hulme

Ad - Massage Therapy and Healing Arts

Ad - DJ Le Spam & The Spam AllStars

PAGE FOUR

Election Day Photos by Lydia Poncé

Neighborhood Council Election Results

PAGE FIVE

Interview with new Venice Neighborhood Council PresidentSuzanne Thompson

Trends in Foreign Elections - Faramarz Nabavi

Ads - JJ Chill

    PAGE SIX

    Venice celebrates its 99th or 100th anniversary

    The man who built the Venice Trailer Park and turned the swamp into a boat harbor - Linda L. Schmidt

    Photo: Venice in 1940

    Venice Club Building Condemned: Site May be Park - Herald Express - 1946

    PAGE SEVEN

    From the Beachhead Archives - FVB #2 - Dec. 1968
    Venice of Los Angeles - Jane Gordon

    U.S. Navy attacks the Whales - N.G.

    Photo: Windward Arcade

    What's Your Bumper Say? - Andy Manoff and Frank Dorrel's bumpers.

    PAGE EIGHT

    An Insider's View of the Grocery Strike - Interview by Hillary Kaye

    Photo: The Great Supermarket Strike & Lockout of 2003-04

    Ad - Beachsites.com

    PAGE NINE

    Poetry

    • The Phantom - Hillary Kaye
    • Moore Electric - shanna moore
    • A Place to Park - Fast Eddie
    • Cowpoke Memory (Elegy to Ronald Reagan) - Hal Bogotch
    • requiem for a light weight - Rex Butters

    Thought for the Month (Frederick Douglass)

    PAGE TEN

    The Sheriff of Hollywood: Michael Moore and Fahrenheit 9/11 - John Davis

    Ads:

    • Protect the coastal environment - Smith for Assembly
    • William B. Leaf Automotive
    • Findelity Educational Press
    • Metro Cab Co.

    PAGE ELEVEN

    Calendar

    A Eulogy for Our Marlon Brando

    PAGE TWELVE

    FAHRENHEIT 9/11 Poster