Nora Marshall's recollection, told to Kelyn Roberts 04/29/05, 2005b
Nora Marshall, a Venice High graduate from the 1930s told me at Santa Monica Emeritus College where we are both volunteers that the high school students from Ocean Park who attended Venice High had special Red Cars to ride unlike students from other areas of Venice.
She remembers going to the Lick Pier and that many high schoolers were employed on the rides on the pier. No one thought that POP was all that interesting compared to the other piers.
Santa Monica was the place to go if you needed to shop.
Her husband-to-be took her to the Santa Monica Arena on their first date, buying a seat in the front row where you could see the sweat and blood. This was before wrestling was televised.