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WEB PAGE UPDATED:
Thursday, August 4, 2022
Updated/New Items:
08-04-22: Crime Log below for July 29, 30 and 31
07-29-22 : Tidal Gate Schedule for August 2022
CRIME LOG
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Report on the Canals and Immediate Ajacent area. Recent Crime Report are displayed in Yellow
07-31-22 : 6:00 p.m. Theft from Vehicle - Grand - 28th @ Clune Ave.
07-30-22 : 11:50 p.m. Theft - Petty - Washington Blvd. @ Pacific Ave.
07-29-22 : 12:01 a.m. Rape, Forcible - Pacific Ave. @ 24th Place
07-22-22 : 2:00 p.m. Theft - Petty - 4XX Sherman Canal
07-14-22 : 12:00 p.m. Theft - Grand - 23XX Grand Canal
VENICE CANALS’ HISTORY
“L.A. YOU MAY NOT KNOW" - THE VENICE CANALS
Click on Web Address. Turn on the video sound.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/on-air/la-you-may-not-know-venice-canals_los-angeles/11194/
PHOTOS FROM 1926 TO PRESENT, including
the Canal Restoration Project 1991-1993
Short Line Beach Venice Canals Subdivision No. 1 - 1926
HISTORIC “RED CAR” VENICE SHORT LINE TOUR
Click on Photo for the story and photos of the Venice Short Line Tour
Pacifc Electric “Red Car” on the historic Grand Canal Bridge in the public parking lot on N. and S. Venice Blvd. between Pacific and Dell Aves. The bridge was torn down to the water line and rebuilt during the 1991- 93 Venice Canals Renovation.
If you missed the Venice Canals program on "Lost LA" KCET Channel 28 program,
you can watch the episode on your computer and/or phone, etc.
For direct access click on LA
SECURITY
Messages from the Canal's LAPD Senior Lead Officer Monique Contreras
The Venice Canals are in Car No. 14A11, subsection1441. Monique's full area is along the coast including the Venice Canals
L.A. IS BIG! WATCH IT GROW FROM FIVE TO 470 SQUARE MILES
IN THE YEARS 1850 TO THE PRESENT
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WHAT WE DO!
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THE ENVIRONMENT
Our Monarch Butterfly Garden
29th Ave. between Pacific Ave. and Strongs Drive
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How Butterflies Find Their Way
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Caring for the Saltbush Safety Barrier Plants
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COMMUNITY INFORMATION
PAST VENICE CANALS COMMUNITY
EVENTS and PROJECTS
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2019
39th Venice Canals Annual Holiday Boat Parade, Sunday, December 15th - Photos
2018
37th Venice Canals Annual Holiday Boat Parade, Sunday, December 9th - Photos
2017
36th Venice Canals Annual Holiday Boat Parade, Sunday, December 10th - Photos
16th VOC Annual Holiday Party and Bridge Lighting, Sunday, December 3, 2017 - Photos
2016
35th Venice Canals Annual Holiday Boat Parade, Sunday, December 11th - Photos
15th VOC Annual Holiday Party and Bridge Lighting, Sunday, December 12, 2016 - Photos
4th of July 2016, Linnie Canal Downwind Regatta - Photos
2015
34th Venice Canals Annual Holiday Boat Parade, Sunday, December 13th - Photos
14th VOC Annual Holiday Party and Bridge Lighting, Sunday, December 6, 2015 - Photos
Jaya Mural Clean-Up and Re-coating, Tuesday, July 28, 2015
4th of July 2015, Linnie Canal Downwind Regatta - Photos
9th VOC Annual "DeTox Sunday," April 31, 2015
2014
33rd Venice Canals Annual Holiday Boat Parade, Sunday, December 14th - Photos
13th VOC Annual Holiday Party and Bridge Lighting, Sunday, December 7, 2014 - Photos
AN EARLY MORNING PRESENT
Good Morning Venice Canals Neighbors!
My friends Egrets, Herons, Pelicans, and Cormorants came by to see you
Birds
A Viewer's Response
I am sure you are besieged by the myrad of nature lovers responding to the freshness and endearing pictures of Mother Nature in all its glory. Only a professional painter could perhaps paint the tenderness of group gatherings of innocent winged friends forging for food. You have capture the real and friendly part of our lives with your extra ordinary shutter skills. Keep up the good work. You purged my day of reading the nothing Times Newspaper and replaced it with a smile after viewing the duck dive party.
- Doug DuFay -
LOST WORDS OF OUR YOUTH
Heavens to Murgatroyd!
Would you believe the email spell checker did not recognize the word murgatroyd?
Lost Words from our childhood: Words gone as fast as the buggy whip! Sad really!
The other day a not so elderly (65) (I say 75) lady said something to her son about driving a Jalopy and he looked at her quizzically and said "What the heck is a Jalopy?
OMG (new) phrase! He never heard of the word jalopy!!
She knew she was old but not that old.
Well, I hope you are Hunky Dory after you read this and chuckle.
About a month ago, I illuminated some old expressions that have become obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology.
These phrases included "Don't touch that dial," "Carbon copy,"
"You sound like a broken record" and "Hung out to dry."
Back in the olden days we had a lot of moxie.
We'd put on our best bib and tucker to straighten up and fly right.
Heavens to Betsy!
Gee whillikers!
Jumping Jehoshaphat!
Holy moley!
We were in like Flynn and living the life of Riley, and even a regular guy couldn't accuse us of being a knucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill.
Not for all the tea in China!
Back in the olden days, life used to be swell, but when's the last time anything was swell?
Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys and the D.A.; of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes and pedal pushers.
Oh, my aching back. Kilroy was here, but he isn't anymore.
We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say, well I'll be a monkey's uncle! Or, This is a fine kettle of fish! We discover that the words we grew up with, the words that seemed omnipresent, as oxygen, have vanished with scarcely a notice from our tongues and our pens and our keyboards.
Poof, go the words of our youth, the words we've left behind We blink, and they're gone. Where have all those phrases gone?
Long gone: Pshaw, The milkman did it.
Hey! It's your nickel.
Don't forget to pull the chain.
Knee high to a grasshopper.
Well, Fiddlesticks!
Going like sixty.
I'll see you in the funny papers.
Don't take any wooden nickels.
It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter has liver pills.
This can be disturbing stuff !
We of a certain age have been blessed to live in changeable times. For a child each new word is like a shiny toy, a toy that has no age. We at the other end of the chronological arc have the advantage of remembering there are words that once did not exist and there were words that once strutted their hour upon the earthly stage and now are heard no more, except in our collective memory. It's one of the greatest advantages of aging.
See ya later, alligator!
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"Frequently Asked Questions" on the Community Alerts page. Information for Barking Dogs, Graffiti Removal, Holiday Trash Collection Days, Bulky Trash Collections, Dead Animal Collection, Pothole and Other Street Repairs, and Replacing Trash Containers.
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