Tom Moran and Tom Sewell Fantasy by the Sea Peace Press: Culver City, CA, 1980 (1979) (Originally published by Beyond Baroque Foundation with a grant from the Visual Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts) 1906
Midway-Plaisance
" . . . opened January 13th, 1906. It featured a long row of exhibits, amusement and freak shows that had lined the entranceway to the world's fair in St. Louis and Portland's Lewis and Clark Exposition. Under the management of Gaston Akoun, the tawdry "trail shows" found a permanent home in Venice."
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt returned to the Venice Beach seven years (1913) after her Venice Pier appearance in 1906, and rented an entire floor of the King George Hotel."
The Beach
The King George Hotel, later the Ocean View Hotel . . . "