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), 1940s
Prelude to War
"America was slowly seeing its way out of the Depression by 1942 . . .
[p. 81 black and white photo ; the WPA Edward Biberman's Venice Postoffice Abbot Kinney Mural]
" . . .
"Sewage from the Los Angeles outfall at Playa del Rey to the south had polluted the ocean water and signs along the Venice beach declared it off-limits to swimmers. . . ."