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LAist Featured Photos contributer Jonathan Alcorn talks about this photo he took in September. "The Venice sign has returned to Windward Avenue after being taken down in the 1940's. It is a copy of the historical Venice sign that hung across Windward Avenue, a block from the entrance to Venice Beach. The effort to bring back the sign was secured by a beautification grant from the City of Los Angeles for the project in 2004 and began the Venice Sign Restoration Project."
Photo by Jonathan Alcorn (sundogg) via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr
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This is a great picture! The story of Venice is fascinating, and also sad. I often teach a short excerpt in one of my classes called "Slum by the Sea" by Lawrence Lipton about Venice in the 1950s. What's also fascinating about Venice's bad rap at that time was that it led to skateboarding culture as we know it today.