Venice, Cailfornia Sights
Ballerina Clown
Looming over the intersection of Rose & Main…
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One person’s nightmare is another person’s dark night of the soul. And then there’s Jonathan Borofsky’s Ballerina Clown, which is…well…both.
Chiat/Day Office Building
340 Main St.
Venice, CA 90291
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Chiat/Day Office Building: Frank Gehry, Binocs: Claes Oldenburg. I’d hoped for an electron microscope but buggers can’t be choosers.
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.
Edgemar Center for the Arts
2415-2449 Main Street
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Phone: (310) 313-5166
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Architecture Buff Alert:
Edgemar Center for the Arts is an ’80s Frank Gehry joint.
Former Eames Studio
Abbot Kinney Blvd.
Venice, CA 90291
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One-time home of Charles and Ray Eames‘ design studio.
Historic Venice Sign
The historic Venice sign “replica” now lighting the Dogtown night at Windward & Pacific is such a success the city is now hoping to raise the money to install an acid-dropping Jim Morrison impersonator in a squalid Westminster Avenue flat.
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Jadis
2701 Main Street
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Phone: (310) 396-3477
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Storefront shop where you rent props for Frankenstein movies. Blucher!
Morrison Apartments
12 Westminster Ave.
Venice, CA 90291
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The Lizard King slept here.
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.
OMD (Office of Mobile Design)
Office of Mobile Design
1725 Abbot Kinney Blvd
Venice, CA 90291
Phone: 310-439-1129
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Map of OMD Showhouse Location
Cool prefabs and green, too.