Shopping
Urban Country
Antiques and carnivalnalia.
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Urbanic Paper Boutique
Nice little paper boutique.
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Venice Beach Wine
Newish Rose Ave wine shop with great selection and thoughtful guidance.
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Venice Bike & Skate
Rent or buy bikes and blades at this longtime Venice beach business. Plenty of quality bikes to rent. And if you’re considering buying, they have some cool beach cruisers at affordable prices. The staff is warm and fuzzy. Okay, some are warm and fuzzy. Some are just fuzzy.
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Venice Boardwalk
When most people think of Venice, nowadays, it’s Ocean Front Walk — the boardwalk — they picture. A couple of miles of insanity, vanity and humanity with souvenir shops and tattoo parlors galore, street vendors and palm readers, more crazies than can shake sticks at you, sleaze, ocean breeze, street performers, nut jobs, tourists, posers…it’s all here, particularly on beautiful weekend days. Come prepared for a full immersion in life’s rich pageant. If you’re bringing a pygmy anaconda, please bring its sunblock. Actually, best to leave the pets at home unless you want to traumatize them for life.
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Venice Farmers Market
Get green Friday mornings from 8 to 11 at this long-running garden party. Orchids, seedlings, fresh fruit and vegetables, organic produce, meat and fish, nuts for you, flowers for the kids.
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Venice Originals Skateboard Shop
Skateboards and accessories from original Venice skaters.
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Vidiots
The indie place to go around these parts for DVD and video rentals. The staff are movie nerds, you can get pretty much whatever weird thing you’re looking for here—foreign films, cult movies, the odd book or two.
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Waraku
Japan cool on Abbot Kinney. Kicks and clothes from the East, West, Shibuya, Harajuku…
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ZJ Boarding House
The largest and busiest board store, gear and apparel spot in the Dogtown environs. Skateboards, snowboards, surfboards, set-ups and accessories, wetsuits and sportswear.
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