Letters
• What a surprise - Lynne
Bronstein
• CRISES IN HOUSING - Cynthia
Fenton
• Forced Out - Charles
Kruger
• LINCOLN BLVD. - Ray
Bianco
• SCRATCH BACK - Bruce
Harrison
• ONE VENICE BLVD. - Susanne
Chilton
• Response from Carol
Fondiller
Dear Beachhead Collective of
2002,
What a
surprise (although I had seen a poster
announcing the benefit) to see the Beachhead again! And it looks somewhat the
same, although the typesetting has
improved.
But there's the enjoyment
of again being able to read Carol's Harpie rants, with the added bonus of seeing
how long they take to download! Don't write brief 500 word articles just because
you can, Carol. The Internet is
infinite!
I look forward to seeing
more issues-and while it's a comfort to know I can read them online if I can't
find them elsewhere, it does
feel
strange to be "logging on" to the
Beachhead. I never thought I would see
it.
Good
luck,
Lynne
Bronstein,
Collective Member
1979-1983.
tanysare@earthlink.net
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CRISES
IN HOUSING
There must be tremendous
crisis in housing when you have people willing to pay close to a million dollars
to live in the Oakwood section of Venice. You have 24 hr. foot traffic, drug
dealers, taxi cabs all night, crime, not to mention shopping cart people looking
for cans in the wee hours of the morning. A million dollars to live here.
Wow!
Cynthia
Fenton
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Forced
Out
Dear
Friends:
I was delighted with the September
2002 isue of the Free Venice Beachhead. It is of conspicuously high quality.
I am a former Venetian who was forced
out by an intimidating landlord who assured me that that my Lincoln Place
Apartment would soon be unavailable to me and that I'd better take a $3000 bribe
and hit the road. This was intimidation as the apartment is still empty.....
I am happy in my new Long Beach home,
but a piece of my heart belongs to
Venice.
Charles
Kruger
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LINCOLN
BLVD.
I could not agree more with
“Living on Lincoln by Jim Smith in the September
Beachhead.
I would like to call your
attention to a small community of transit advocates who share your view:
http://boards.eesite.com/board.cgi?boardset=ExpoLine&boardid=Green&thread=20&spec=4622967
I
have expressed similar sentiments to Los Angeles City Council members and the
Los Angeles Board of Supervisors. Don Knabe has passed along my comments
to his appointees on the Lincoln Blvd. Transit Task
Force.
Yours are ideas worth raising
great visibility.
No doubt, with
all the redevelopment occurring on Lincoln from Santa Monica to LAX, there is
certainly an opportunity to fix years of zoning and
planning neglect.
Kind
regards,
Ray
Bianco
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SCRATCH BACK
Never before has
one single man with his administration so gutted the American constitution and
destroyed many years work in producing wise environmental laws. Eisenhower
warned of a military industry complex takeover 42 years ago in his farewell
address.
We round the corner on one
year of 9/11 and I was asked to help with a peace gathering. I will, but much of
me feels at war. It is a pencil war at this time. While Washington's pencil
scratches away at my freedoms and homeland in the name of running my gas guzzler
6 more months, or chasing elusive Bin Ladens, I scratch back with small handfuls
of people writing Washington. Anyone remember Bin
Laden?
Why do I feel we are
loosing our freedom to fight with pencils? We live in a time when individual
enlightenment has reached an apex. Thanks to many Authors we have been able to
study and explore the last frontier, our inner selves. But in these strong
studies of the self we have begun to forget that we are still a collective whole
capable of mapping our collective future. Apathy has set in because it seems
futile because the percents are so low in participation and
voting.
But how will we feel if we
lose this possibly last chance to fight for our rights with pencils? Are we
dooming our children to have to fight with physical violence to regain these
freedoms because we won't click the
pen?
How far into the future will
it be before someone like me sets on remote island as a detainee for writing
this terrorist letter against the government? Having been given the "fair
military trial by judge only".
Is
the media telling you how many people are being detained now? U.S. District
Court Judge Gladys Kessler gives the Fed. Government 15 days to release the
names of 1000 detainees secretly held. All Muslims with minor visa
infractions.
Many of you will
remember Skip and Doreen that for many years were rangers at the West Water
put-in. Skip recently took on one of his passions about the added fees in the
Parks and went to Washington for
two
weeks. His amazement was how happy
the Senators were to see and hear
someone.
I am not asking anyone to
drive to Washington. Just pick one of the issues -Just one!- that you feel
passion about and click your bic.
The War on Iraq? Call the President at 202-456 1111 or 202-456-1414. Fax 202-
456- 2461 Email:
president@whitehouse.gov
Congress
can be reach through
<http://www.congress.org>.
Bruce
Harrison
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ONE
VENICE BLVD.
Hello from an aging
activist residing at One Venice here in
Venice!
While in total agreement that
Carol Fondiller is, indeed, a "worldwide treasure" (and I've known her since
1970--even typed some of her seventies columns for The Beachhead), I was
terribly chagrined to note her lack of specificity when summarizing the "Crises
in Housing" (Sept. 2, issue No. 255).
We here at One Venice are quaking in
our boots while awaiting our opt-out fate, and I would have loved to see us
pointed out via Venice identification rather than merely as one of "at least
three buildings in Los Angeles" affected by the City Council's 8/13 unanimous
authorization to the City Attorney's office to call a halt to our being evicted
out onto Ocean Front Walk.
Suggestion:
in your archives, you possess an article written by Arnold Springer (in itself
historical) in which he interviewed the builder and still part owner of One
Venice. The man's name is Jim Anthony.
In this interview, Anthony is
portrayed as the New Redeemer of Venice, because of his sensitivity to the needs
of seniors wanting to live beside the ocean here. I wish I had photocopied this
article, which was dated in about 1979 and was a celebration of this "Second
Coming". The neighbor here in the building who showed the article to me has
fortunately passed away and did not live to see the way in which Mr. Anthony's
manager is treating those whom he was purporting to Arnold Springer to be so
redemptive.
It would be just great to
see a reprint of this article, conjoined with a couple of interviews with
today's residents of One Venice, some of whom were here when our building was
built and the Beachhead article was written.
I would personally purchase copies of
such an edition of The Beachhead, and would see that Mr. Anthony received a copy
in order to refresh his
memory.
Speaking of memory, thanks for
all the memories of times gone by...and a very warm welcome back to each and
every one of you, including the "worldwide
treasure"!
Affectionately, Susanne
Chilton,
old venetian crone still trying to
survive
••••••
Response
from Carol Fondiller:
Dear
Susanne,
Thanks for the trip down
Memory Lane. So why don’t you return my calls? Write us an article,
ol’ chum!
Love,
Carol
Posted: Tue - October 1, 2002 at 06:44 PM