Jeffrey Stanton Founding of Ocean Park, Web Document, April 6, 1998, 1904,
"The partners finally agreed to dissolve their partnership and divide their holdings based on the flip of a coin. They met at the company's offices for one last time in late January 1904. One of the partners tossed a coin high in the air. Kinney called "Tails" and the coin landed on the floor tails up. The three partners contemplated what they would do with their mostly worthless water logged land.
*Kinney examined the coin carefully in his hand. It was a decision that he had previously thought about long and hard. "I'll take the salt marshes," he replied. His partners gasped in amazement and smiled in relief. Kinney, always the dreamer, would build his Venice of America on that seemingly worthless land.