Identifier	post_00164
Title	A street scene at Venice, Cal.
Creator	unknown
Date Published	circa 1911
Subject (Topic)	Streets--California--Los Angeles; Central business districts--California--Los Angeles; Canals--California--Los Angeles; Boats and boating--California--Los Angeles
Subject (Name)	Ship Cafe (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Subject (Place)	Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.); Windward Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif)
Type	image
Form/Genre	Postcards
Physical Description	1 postcard : Color ; 9 x 14 cm.
Institution	Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University
Country of Creation	US
Copyright Status	public domain
Copyright Statement	http://library.lmu.edu/collections/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Publisher	Newman Post Card Co.
Place of Publication	Los Angeles, San Francisco
Language	eng
Description	A view of Windward Avenue in Venice, California with the grand lagoon in the foreground. Tourists dressed in early 20th century style clothing crowd the avenue and the bank of the lagoon. A boater rows a small boat on the lagoon. The mast of the Ship Cafe is visible in the distance.
Historical Background	Originally part of the Ocean Park district of Santa Monica, Abbot Kinney's vision of Venice in America was developed starting in 1904, complete with a canal system and singing gondoliers. Canal construction began in 1904, and in 1905 construction of an amusement pier began. Windward Avenue was a busy business district and thoroughfare in Venice, bounded on the East side by the Venice Lagoon and the South Side by Ocean Front Walk and the Venice Pier, and lined with arched colonnades. The Ship Hotel and Cafe was one of the original attractions of the Venice pier and was intended to be a replica of Juan Cabrillo's Spanish galleon. Venice formally disincorporated from Ocean Park in 1911, and in 1925, Venice was annexed to the city of Los Angeles. By 1929, many of the canals had been filled in and paved as roads due to health and engineering problems.
Additional Printed Matter	On back: "Venice, Cal., On the road of a thousand wonders."
Publisher's Identifier	Series number: No. F 202
Additional Notes	Approximate date from postmark.
Source	Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection