Les Storrs Santa Monica Portrait of a City Yesterday and Today, Santa Monica Bank: Santa Monica, CA, 1974, 67 pp., 1880
"By 1880 . . . in a deep depression. The 1880 census showed a population of only 417, and this included the entire township of La Ballona, now Ocean Park and Venice. The bottom fell out of property values . . .
"Residents blamed the Southern Pacific, and the Outlook led the way . . .