Carolyn Elayne Alexander Images of America: Venice, Arcadia: San Francisco, CA 2004 (1999), 128 pp., 1920, 1917, 1914, 1903
[p. 41] "In 1917, Cesare La Monica took up the baton for the Venice Band, whose members were Italian immigrants. La Monica was a well-known and loved musician in the Santa Monica Bay district, but when World War I was declared, he was arrested as a "slacker." He explained that he had not known about enlistment and immediately volunteered."