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Description:: Boys kneeling in sand with dog in front of umbrella on Venice Beach.
Date Created:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Gamblers sit and play tango, a bingo-like game. Gambling was allowed in the amusement zones of Venice beach. Gambling parlors could be found in hotels and speakeasys.
Date Created:: 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Five boys play in the water as a German Shepherd looks on. A pier is visible in the background.
Date Created:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Homes and palm trees underwater in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles. After heavy rains lasting more than 36 hours, between 1200 and 1800 homes in the Venice area were underwater on January 1, 1934.
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: PROBLEM: Photo is not of flood in Venice as written on sleeve.
Date Created:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A crowd gathers on the sand at Venice Beach the day after Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared from the same beach. The crowd stands across the mid-ground, and most face towards the left. All wear jackets at the beach. A woman in the foreground at right sits on the beach next to a pile of sand. At left, a man in a suit walks towards camera. Behind and to the right of him, a few kids play in the sand. Buildings rise behind the throng of people in the distance at center. On one of the buildings it reads, "HOTEL CADILLAC."
Date Created:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: ANSWER: This is the Grand Canal of Venice--Venice, Cal. Photograph of this section of the beach city's long-abandoned--and now revived--idea to emulate Venice, Italy, with a system of canals, was made looking south of the N Venice Blvd. bridge over the Grand Canal.
Date Created:: 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

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