Mexican government granted a region called LA Ballona that included the southern iparts of Venice to Machados and the Talamantes family.

Tabacco Millionaire and Real Estate Developer Abbot Kinney and Francis G. Ryan Purchased a 1.5 mile-long strip of beachfront land located south of Santa Monica

Venice Annexed by the City of Los Angeles

Abbot Kinney split from his buisness partners to establish his own community resort community. the seasside resort community was named “Venice of America.

California Statehood

1800 1850 1900 1910 1920 1930

Year 1839

El Pueblo de Los Angeles was founded

Year 1850Year 1781

Year 1904-1905

Year 1925

Year 1891

Los Angeles City Hall was constructed

LA hosts Olympic Games. Later Athelestes cottages are placed on the beach as a summer resort.

California Coastal Commission is formed

Los Angeles Civil UnrestVenice Pavillion opens.

1940 1950 1970 1980

Year 1926

The Local Coastal Program was adopted

Current Venice Community Plan was adopted

1990 2000

Year 1999

Year 2000Year 1958 Year 1992

Year 1932 Year 1972

HISTORICAL TIMELINE OF THE COMMUNITY PLAN AREA

1960 2020

VENICE

1700 1900

Ocean Park Resort Community was established

Year 1898

Hawaiian George Freeth puts on world’s first surfing exhibitions and starts Venice’s Lifegaurd service.

Year 1907

African Americans began to locate into Oakwood as manual laborers and servants to wealthy white residents.

Year 1910

Venice of America disincorporates from Ocean Park, becomes City of Venice.

Year 1911Stock Market Crash.

Oil wells on the Venice Peninsula began production.Provide much needed financial relief during the Depression.

Year 1929

Venice Canals were filled in.

Year 1929Venice made an attempt at incorporation, but was unsuccessful.

Year 1935

US Congress Passess National Housing Act, and created Federal Housing Administration.

Year 1934

Pearl Harbor bombed, US enters World War II

Year 1941The “Beats” sett-led into Venice. They emphasized on “Bohemian lifestyles”.

Year 1958

As WW II began, hundreds of Japenese residents were rounded up and sent to internmrnt camps.

Year 1942

End of World War IIYear 1945

Urban Renewal Program leads to demolition of 550 buildings.

Year 1962-1965

Watts RiotsYear 1965

The start of the influence of the Flower children.

Year 1967

Arnold schwarzenegger starts working at the Gold Gym

Year 1968

California Coastal Act Adopted

Year 1976

Jeffery Rosenberg open Cheap Skates, starting the craze for roller skating

Year 1976

The Architecture Gallery opened.

Year 1979

LA hosts Olympic Games

Year 1984

Venice Canals refurbished.

Year 1995

2010

Local Community members recreate the ‘Venice Sign’.

Year 2007

Venice Skatepark opened.

Year 2009

Abbot Kinney named “coolest block” in America by GQ.

Year 2012

Silicon Beach Expands into Venice.

LA voters approve Measure JJJ

Year 2015-16