By Daily Press staff
Step back in time by visiting a new photo exhibit highlighting life in Venice before it became the beach resort town it is today.
The Venice Historical Society has a new exhibit at the Venice Library, 501 South Venice Blvd. The historic, on-going exhibit features oversized photographs of old Venice, including a 1906 scene from the Colonnades on Windward Avenue; a typical Venice beach scene from the early 1900s; kids fishing from the canals in the 1920s, before they were filled in; a flooded Venice Boulevard in the 1920s; and various Venice Canal scenes when Venice was only a few years old.
All photographs are courtesy of the Venice Historical Society. For more information, call (310) 967-5170, or log onto www.veniceofamerica.org.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 4, 2006. Read the original PDF.