Venice California
Author | : Jeffrey Stanton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.) |
ISBN | : 9780961984939 |
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Author | : Jeffrey Stanton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.) |
ISBN | : 9780961984939 |
Author | : Elayne Alexander |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738569673 |
Author | : Blake Nelson |
Publisher | : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2014-06-03 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316230472 |
Robert "'Cali" Callahan is a teen runaway, living on the streets of Venice Beach, California. He's got a pretty sweet life: a treehouse to sleep in, a gang of surf bros, a regular basketball game...even a girl who's maybe-sorta interested in him. What he doesn't have is a plan. All that changes when a local cop refers Cali to a private investigator who is looking for a missing teenager. After all, Cali knows everyone in Venice. But the streets are filled with people who don't want to be found, and when he's hired to find the beautiful Reese Abernathy--who would do anything to stay hidden--Cali enters a new world filled with mysterious characters, dangerous choices, and his first chance at real love.
Author | : John O'Kane |
Publisher | : Booklocker.com |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2013-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781626464001 |
This book is a reminiscence that celebrates Venice, California's heyday as an alternative community and what survives from it in the present. Many wonder how much longer this city's creative state of mind can persist as gentrification threatens to transform this legendary bohemian Mecca into merely another beach resort for the propertied. The author discusses these threats, but finds in the consciousness of remaining alternative residents a spirit of resistance to these pressures.
Author | : John Arthur Maynard |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813519654 |
In this fascinating book, John Arthur Maynard tells the story of the poets and promoters who invented the Beat Generation and who, in many cases, destroyed themselves in the process. In this look at the least remembered (but in its time, most publicized) beat enclave, Maynard focuses on two of Venice's most newsworthy residentsÐÐLawrence Lipton and Stuart Z. Perkoff. Lipton began as a writer of popular detective stories and screenplays, but was determined to be recognized as a poet and social critic. He eventually published The Holy Barbarians, which helped to create the enduring public image of the beatnik. Stuart Perkoff was a more gifted poet; with fascination and horror, we follow his failed attempts to support his family, his heroin addiction, his first wive's courage and mental fragility, his sexual entanglements, his imprisonment, and the development of his own writing. Other characters who move in and out of the story are Kenneth Rexroth, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg, as well as lesser-known poets, artists, hangers-on, and the many women who were rarely treated as full members of the community.
Author | : Celia Bonaduce |
Publisher | : Kensington Publishing Corp. |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2013-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1601831226 |
The Rollicking Bun--Home of the Epic Scone--is the center of Suzanna Wolf's life. Part tea shop, part bookstore, part home, it's everything she's ever wanted right on the Venice Beach boardwalk, including partnership with her two best friends from high school, Eric and Fernando. But with thirty-three just around the corner, suddenly Suzanna wants something more--something strictly her own. Salsa lessons, especially with a gorgeous instructor, seem like a good start--a harmless secret, and just maybe the start of a fling. But before she knows it, Suzanna is learning steps she never imagined--and dancing her way into confusion. 68,000 Words
Author | : Gabriel Morris |
Publisher | : John Hunt Publishing |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2012-06-29 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1846948509 |
Following My Thumb follows the wandering, rambling, bumbling travels of Gabriel Morris from 1990-2000. In the summer of 1990, at the age of 18, he sets off to Europe with his over-sized backpack, thumb guiding the way. He hitchhikes the entire length of Great Britain, sleeps in barns, on bridges and beaches and under benches, explores the Greek Isles, sneaks into a Parisian movie theater, spends a night at the center of the Place de la Concorde roundabout, and more. In Part 2 of the book, he spends the bulk of the mid-1990s as a wandering traveler back home in the United States, searching for something elusive: a place to call home, a community, love, adventure, meaning, purpose. He both finds and loses all to varying degrees as he attends tribal Rainbow Gatherings in the woods, falls in and out of love on the road, lives on farms and communes, and spends several months in an idyllic valley, far from civilization in the Hawaiian rainforest. The book culminates with his amazing and thought-provoking travels in the mystical land of India. ,
Author | : Dotan Saguy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2018-05 |
Genre | : Beaches |
ISBN | : 9783868288421 |
A photo documentary about the amazing but endangered culture of Venice Beach
Author | : William Mark Habeeb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2021-07-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781578690619 |
Venice Beach is a coming-of-age story about a thirteen-year-old boy who flees an abusive household for the lure of sunny California in 1968.
Author | : Pat Hartman |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2004-11-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1462812503 |
Visit VirtualVenice.info Pat Hartman´s first book, Call Someplace Paradise, was concerned with the public face of Venice, California - the boardwalk and boutique Venice visited by between one and two hundred thousand tourists each weekend. Ghost Town is about the other Venice. There is a book genre described by Russ Rymer as "inspecting America´s racial trauma through the lens of private experience, as it plays out in the daily difficulties of particular persons in one or another microcosmic place." Here the microcosm is Oakwood, a hotbed of diversity and danger called Ghost Town by its own citizens. The particular persons are a white single mother, age 30, and her 11-year-old, half-black daughter, along with a stellar cast of roommates, boyfriends, and neighbors. Ghost Town: A Venice California Life is a psychological adventure story that takes place in a challenging environment where many people would never consider trying to live. Much has been said and written about racial dynamics by people who, however well-informed and well-intentioned, may talk the talk but haven´t walked the walk. Whether by lack of inclination or of opportunity, many experts on race relations have never actually lived in a racially mixed neighborhood, let alone where their own group is a minority. In an environment that forces thought about race issues every single day, it´s a different world. How are attitudes about race formed? Why is it that even the most willing participants of the melting pot sometimes can´t take the heat? These and other questions are precisely as relevant now as they were in the period covered here, 1978-84. Unfortunately the subject of race will probably continue to be relevant into the next millennium and beyond, given that the human race as a whole is still around that long. Despite being burglarized, mugged, vandalized, menaced, caught in the black/chicano crossfire, and visited by men in suits who travel in pairs, the author found existence in Oakwood rewarding and positive an many ways. (Film director Barbet Schroeder, who lived in Oakwood during the same time period, told an interviewer it was "the best year of my life so far.") Like the diary of Samuel Pepys in London, like Alexander King´s memoirs of Greenwich Village, Ghost Town is a record of a fascinating and frightening urban environment through the eyes of an articulate and meticulous observer. Visit VirtualVenice.info