Horst Schmidt-Brümmer Venice, California: An Urban Fantasy, Grossman Publishers: NY, (English trans., Feelie Lee) 1973 (Original German Text Verlag Ernst Wasmuth: Tubingen, 1972), 108 pp., 1950s
"It was only in the early fifties when the oil sources stopped-and Venice for the first time was going dry-that the first indications of a new life, of a growing neighborhood, appeared and developed into a community that offered an alternative way of life to that of Los Angeles."