Mon - December 1, 2003

Anna Ricci Haag - 1937 - 2003


Godmother Muse Lady Queen
Take your Pick

By Carol Fondiller

The last time I saw her before she died she looked good.

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Tales of the Nude Beach and other strange events - 35 Years of Venice and the Free Venice Beachhead


Marcia Stone and Paul Tanck both individually moved to Venice in the summer of 1974. They met in 1978, and have lived together on Rialto Avenue since 1980.

Paul - hi. this is us. and we’re gonna talk about our first days in venice.

Marcia- i know that mine was in september of 1974. and i know that i moved in on a saturday. and the day was so involved with the moving -

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Venice Envisioned – Community looks at Lincoln Blvd.


By Sheila Bernard

Economic growth based on legal and fiscal desperation has led to assaults on stable neighborhoods in our city, as well as serious environmental degradation.

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

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Out of the Litter Box


by Ali Katz

Grey fade to Schwarz

After his investiture, and the promise to cut the 300% car registration fee, guess what our new gobernator proposes?

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Trammell Crow project rejected by Neighborhood Council Board


By Jim Smith

The Grass Roots Venice Neighborhood Council rejected a committee’s recommendation for approval of the 298-unit Trammell Crow project in the Oxford Triangle neighborhood.

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


There have been a number of changes in the GRVNC lineup since last June’s hotly contested election.

Here’s the collateral damage:

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**GRVNC STAKEHOLDERS ENCOURAGED TO COMMENT ON THE PLAYA VISTA PHASE TWO DRAFT EIR** DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING!


Playa Vista Phase Two Environmental Impact Report (“EIR”)
Case No. ENV-2002-6129-EIR

The Grassroots Venice Neighborhood Council (GRVNC) Land Use and Planning Committee (LUPC) has created an ad hoc subcommittee which will work together with the GRVNC Conservation Committee to gather comments on the Draft EIR (DEIR) from GRVNC stakeholders.

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THE PARKING GANGS OF VENICE


By John Davis

As the Coastal Commission pretends to act as a legitimate regulatory authority of the State, local interests such as the County and City of Los Angels are exploiting this failure of due process in an orgy of greed.

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Meet Fannie Chappel


by Lydia Poncé

She’s lived in Venice since 1973. Fannie has been picking up litter on Broadway Ave. and surrounding streets for more than 30 years. You can find her as early as 7 AM, Monday through Saturday, volunteering and collecting the unthinkable, to depose of it properly. I stopped to interview her . She’s really quite shy and is the most humble person I’ve met.

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Community Opposition Rising - Lincoln Center NOT Moving Forward


The following preliminary response from Envision Venice to the Lincoln Center project (proposed for California and Lincoln) was presented at the Nov. 26 Neighborhood Council meeting and at the Dec. 1 Land Use Committee meeting by Laura Silagi.

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Where it started - 35 years of the Free Venice Beachhead


By John Haag

The California Peace and Freedom Party qualified for the ballot in time for the 1968 elections. Three P&F candidates ran: Bob Nieman for State Senate, myself for Assembly and Sherman Pearl for U.S. Congress.

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THE FREE VENICE BEACHHEAD and Me - 35 years of the Free Venice Beachhead


By Chuck Bloomquist

My first contact with Venice was in 1951 when some fellow Marines and I came here to have a last night of revelry before shipping out to Korea. What a great party; what a great place!

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THE BEACHHEAD and Moe - 35 years of the Free Venice Beachhead


By Moe Stavnezer

I wasn’t there at the birth, but I fell in love with the baby, spittle, poops and all. As befits a doting, now turning senile, grandfather, I can’t remember the first time I saw the tyke though I admired its spunkiness, its zaniness and most of all the honesty in its eyes. Oh yes, its eyes. Because it was the eyes of Venice, intense, glinty, often bloodshot but true and warm and caring.

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THE FREE VENICE BEACHHEAD Today - 35 years of the Free Venice Beachhead


By Jim Smith

During the 1990s, many of the Venice organizations declined in activity, or stopped functioning altogether. This included the Beachhead, Peace & Freedom Party and the Venice Town Council.

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Venice 1959


By Bill Fleeman

Long hair, beard, looking like Raskolnikov ‘bout to kill his landlady, back in Baltimore I didn’t fit. I read “On the Road” in ‘58, “The Holy Barbarians”early ‘59. Then I read a U.S. highway roadmap. Broke, no car, I bummed money from a friend and a ride out of town to I 94 West.

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The Bookstore on Dudley


By Kittly Bratton

It seems like all the important events of my life were on or near the boardwalk of Venice.

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Venice Step Team


by Lydia Poncé

Coach Benson and her daughter Trina have volunteered their choreographic talents and services since 2001. Trina created this dance group as an alternative to cheerleading offered at Venice High School.

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