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Remembering Ray Manzarek: Doors Keyboardist Believed Venice Beach Helped the Band Find Its Sound
May 21, 2013
Ray Manzarek, the keyboard player for the Doors, was the first rock star I ever interviewed. I'd just started writing about music, and one morning my editor called me up and asked if I'd like to...

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Venice Beach Is The Perfect Spot For Fun And Recreation
May 16, 2013
Enjoy all that Venice Beach has to offer. For fun in the sun there is nothing like a trip to the most famous beach in the country.

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Visit The Canals Of Venice Without Leaving The Golden State
May 15, 2013
You can get a taste of the famous Venice Canals right in the middle of California. Take a trip to the Venice Canals for a very special romantic outing.

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Mr.No's Poster Shop
Located just south of Breeze on the Venice Boardwalk, this deceptively small entrance leads to a huge array of well cataloged posters.  You may be able to get posters for less somewhere more


Site News:

About This Site
Mar 18, 2005

This site will be a repository for profiles of various Venice Beach residents, artists, businesses, and boardwalk vendors.  We plan on profiling each entity on their own page, eventually making this a bit of a virtual Venice from a local perspective.  We hope to have fun and meet a lot of great people along the way.  Stay tuned.

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Articles Mentioning Venice:

Ray Manzarek, Doors keyboardist, dies
May 21, 2013
Ray Manzarek, Doors keyboardist, dies Ray Manzarek, the founding member and keyboard player for the Doors whose haunting and sweetly melodic organ riffs loomed large in the psychedelic rock era, died Monday at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany. Formed in 1965, when Mr. Manzarek had a chance encounter with aspiring poet and film student Jim Morrison at Venice Beach, the band went on to sell ...

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The Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek dies
May 21, 2013
The Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek dies

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The Doors keyboardist dies
May 21, 2013
Ray Manzarek, co-founder of legendary 1960s group The Doors and creator of their signature organ sound, died Monday after a long battle with cancer, his manager said. He was 74.

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Clearview Treatment Programs Clinical Director to Present on DBT and Substance Abuse at WCSAD
May 21, 2013
Dr. Alina Gorgorian will discuss how Dialectical Behavior Therapy helps those struggling with both Borderline Personality Disorder and addictions on June 1, 2013. (PRWeb May 21, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10752049.htm

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Remembering Ray Manzarek: Doors Keyboardist Believed Venice Beach Helped the Band Find Its Sound
May 21, 2013
Ray Manzarek, the keyboard player for the Doors, was the first rock star I ever interviewed. I'd just started writing about music, and one morning my editor called me up and asked if I'd like to...

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The Venice Beach Lottery
Mar 21, 2005

Below is a link to a paper I wrote about the Venice Beach lottery....I've since learned some new facts and the paper isn't entirely accurate as I think I got the name of the guy who does the political billboards wrong.  As well, I now realize that some of the spaces are a different size than others, though I don't think it affects the larger point about space flexibility.  Since that time, I've heard a lot of stories about businesses getting spots to specifically keep them empty and I've seen a lot more empty spaces on the boardwalk.   Anyways, here is the paper.....

http://www.aboutvenicebeach.com/uploads/commpsychfinal2.doc

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