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Santa Monica Community Garden

doglord — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:26:47 +0000

Main Street and Strand Street
Santa Monica, CA
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Bucolic block of public plots is a crazy quilt of cornucopiation.

Venice Beach Canals

doglord — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:32:09 +0000

Venice California between Ocean and Pacific Avenues and Venice and Washington Boulevards.
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Quaint little theme park of a neighborhood, though its bungalows are rapidly being replaced by battleship-style McMansions. The humanity. Nice stroll, though watch out for duck poop. Keep you eyes peeled for Snowy Egrets, old hippies and publicity-shy Hollywood types.

OMD (Office of Mobile Design)

doglord — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:22:50 +0000

Office of Mobile Design
1725 Abbot Kinney Blvd
Venice, CA 90291
Phone: 310-439-1129
OMD
Map of OMD Showhouse Location
Cool prefabs and green, too.

Venice Pier

doglord — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:51:15 +0000

Ocean Front Walk & Washington Blvd
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Reopened after severe storm damage a decade ago, the fishing pier’s toilets were blasted off the end by huge waves in December ‘05. Gnarley…though no one was in them at the time.

Venice Boardwalk

doglord — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:39:39 +0000

The insanity stretches from Navy south to North Venice Blvd.
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It’s in that stretch that the cream-of-the-characters sets up shop. That stretch is also the economic engine of the Chinese-crap-for-sale industry.

Edgemar Center for the Arts

doglord — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:22:11 +0000

2415-2449 Main Street
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Phone: (310) 313-5166
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Architecture Buff Alert:
Edgemar Center for the Arts is an ’80s Frank Gehry joint.

Drum Circle On-Deck Circle

doglord — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:13:42 +0000

Ocean Front Walk & Breeze Ave.
Venice, CA 90291
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In the hours leading up to a full-fledged drum circle there’s often a warm up—a drum circle on-deck-circle—taking place on a beach-side grassy knoll near Ocean Front Walk and Breeze Ave.

Original Muscle Beach

doglord — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:05:33 +0000

Ocean Front Walk (just south of the Santa Monica Pier)
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Original Muscle Beach
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The epicenter of the American fitness movement in it’s salad days, the original Muscle Beach is now a veritable cornucopia of sturdy exercise apparatuses and playground equipment.

Venice Beach Roller Disco Slab

doglord — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 03:59:40 +0000

Ocean Front Walk & Windward
Venice, CA 90291
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Not the scene these days that Central Park’s roller disco spot is. Still, hosts plenty of dedicated roller boogie-oogiers, particularly on weekends. The only real question is: Are you phreak enough to disappear down this hip-hop roller-disco rabbit hole? Un-huh, un-huh…

Muscle Beach Venice

doglord — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:59:22 +0000

Venice Beach Recreation Center
1800 Ocean Front Walk
Venice, CA 90291
Phone: (818) 922-4626 (Joe Wheatley Prod.)
Muscle Beach
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Muscle Beach Venice is located two blocks north of Venice Blvd, on Ocean Front Walk, Earth. Where many of its over-buff denizens hale from is a matter for the Star Council.