The roller skaters of Venice Beach, 1979

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In the seventies and eighties, Venice Beach was considered a place of peace, love and roller skates. Venice, originally called “Venice of America”, was founded by wealthy developer Abbot Kinney in 1905 as a beach resort town, 14 miles (23 km) west of Los Angeles. Los Angeles had neglected Venice so long that, by the […]

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