Stuff To Do
AMF Bayshore Lanes
234 Pico Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Phone: (310) 399-7731
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Cold Bud in bowling pin bottles. Questions?
Beach Volley Ball Nets (Ocean Park)
Ocean Front Walk from Hollister to Ocean Park Blvd.
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If your serving arm goes dead on weekends there’s usually a pick-up roller-hockey game across the bike path.
Beach Volleyball Nets (Santa Monica Pier)
You’ll find these public volleyball nets on the beach just south of the Santa Monica Pier.
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Words of Warning: Do not come here if you’ve got a problem with lithe lifeguards frolicking in the near nude.
Drum Circle On-Deck Circle
Ocean Front Walk & Breeze Ave.
Venice, CA 90291
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In the hours leading up to a full-fledged drum circle there’s often a warm up—a drum circle on-deck-circle—taking place on a beach-side grassy knoll near Ocean Front Walk and Breeze Ave.
Exhale Center for Sacred Movement
245 South Main Street
Venice, CA 90291
Phone: 310.450.7676
Exhale
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Sacred franchise…with, it must be noted, some of the most experienced and accomplished instructors in this city or any other: Eric Schiffman, Saul David Raye and Seane Corn, to name a few.
Gold’s Gym
360 Hampton Drive
Venice, CA 90291
Phone: (310) 392-6004
www.goldsgym.com
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If you can’t get your pump on at Gold’s maybe you just don’t deserve to be called gym bunny anymore. Joe Gold’s original Ocean Park gym is history. But this Venice replacement still boasts some of the biggest bodies in body-building.
International Chess Park
Ocean Front Walk (just south of Santa Monica Pier)
Santa Monica, CA 90405
International Chess Park
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Washington Square Park west, at the beach with an ocean breeze. And within steps of Hot Dog Stick. Geek heaven.
Muscle Beach Venice
Venice Beach Recreation Center
1800 Ocean Front Walk
Venice, CA 90291
Phone: (818) 922-4626 (Joe Wheatley Prod.)
Muscle Beach
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Muscle Beach Venice is located two blocks north of Venice Blvd, on Ocean Front Walk, Earth. Where many of its over-buff denizens hale from is a matter for the Star Council.
Oakwood Recreation Center
767 California Ave
Venice, CA 90291
Phone: (310) 452-7479
Oakwood Recreation Center
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Good for the ‘wood, from jungle gyms and kiddy swings to sports fields with bright lights for night games. Popular hang for a lot of Oakwood kids.
Original Muscle Beach
Ocean Front Walk (just south of the Santa Monica Pier)
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Original Muscle Beach
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The epicenter of the American fitness movement in it’s salad days, the original Muscle Beach is now a veritable cornucopia of sturdy exercise apparatuses and playground equipment.