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) 1924, 1932
Aquatics
" . . . Wallace O'Connor . . . won gold and bronze medals in both the 1924 and 1932 Olympic games."
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Ku Klux Klan
"The California branch of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan listed Venice as its headquarters when it applied for incorporation in 1924.
"The Klan's doctrines of racism, supra-patriotism, xenophobia and evangelical fundamentalism had been revived following the 1915 motion picture, "The Clansman." While the greatest appeal remained in the southern states, supporters existed in small towns throughout America.
"An initiation ceremony at Ocean Park Heights [now Mar Vista], near the Venice High School, claimed 2,000 new Klan members, instances of Klan visits to local churches were reported.
"An investigation by Los Angeles District Attorney Thomas Lee Woolwine implicated several Venice officials and prominent merchants as possible Klan members or associates. The county Grand Jury reported Klan involvement in the Venice Police Department and alleged that 19 Klan members had been sworn in as special deputies."
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"Thornton Kinney tried to have the canals filled in 1924 but was enjoined by canal-area residents. Venice Mayor C. Gordon Parkhurst . . ."