Abbott-Kinney is a small stretch of three blocks in Venice Beach–the “Westside” of LA. I don’t know the entire history of the area, but it was originally founded by tobacco millionaire Abbott Kinney and called Ocean Park in 1905. In 1911, the name was changed to Venice, and in 1925…
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Rebekah Sager is a nationally published journalist.
Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Playboy, and The Hollywood Reporter, to name a few. Her feature story for VICE was the most shared/aggregated story on the site to date. It was also referenced on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and featured on NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me.”
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