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., 1966, 1925
"In 1925 Venice was incorporated into the City of Los Angeles. Thomas H. Thurlow, the last mayor of Venice, commented . . . in an interview with the Los Angeles Times in 1966: "We committed suicide. That's what we called it, and that's what it was."