[4K] LOS ANGELES🇺🇸 Saturday Night Drive - Driving Venice Beach, Abbot Kinney Blvd, Santa Monica

Saturday night driving Venice Beach, Abbot Kinney Blvd and Santa Monica #VeniceBeach#LosAngeles#SantaMonica When did Abbot Kinney build Venice? He spent his fortune building a replica of his favorite city, Venice, Italy. His “Venice-Of-America”, a cultural mecca and massive playground complete with canals, gondolas, pleasure piers, pools, piazzas and colonnades opened in 1905. ➡️Click to subscribe to the channel:    / mc75k   00:00 Preview 01:12 Santa Monica 12:17 Venice Beach 17:21 Abbot Kinney Blvd 19:43 Main St Starting Point: https://goo.gl/maps/JuCaBKJ3b73aw5L18 Filmed: March 26, 2022 #subscribe#like#share#comment Venice, originally called "Venice of America", was founded by wealthy developer Abbot Kinney in 1905 as a beach resort town, 14 miles (23 km) west of Los Angeles. He and his partner Francis Ryan had bought 2 miles (3 km) of ocean-front property south of Santa Monica in 1891. They built a resort town on the north end of the property, called Ocean Park, which was soon annexed to Santa Monica. After Ryan died, Kinney and his new partners continued building south of Navy Street. After the partnership dissolved in 1904, Kinney, who had won the marshy land on the south end of the property in a coin flip with his former partners, began to build a seaside resort like the namesake Italian city. When Venice of America opened on July 4, 1905, Kinney had dug several miles of canals to drain the marshes for his residential area, built a 1,200-foot-long (370 m) pier with an auditorium, ship restaurant, and dance hall, constructed a hot salt-water plunge, and built a block-long arcaded business street with Venetian architecture. Kinney hired artist Felix Peano to design the columns of the buildings.  Included in the capitals are several faces, modeled after Kinney and a woman named Nettie Bouck. Fireworks display over the lake at the old Venice Amusement Park around 1915 Tourists, mostly arriving on the "Red Cars" of the Pacific Electric Railway from Los Angeles and Santa Monica, then rode the Venice Miniature Railway and gondolas to tour the town. The biggest attraction was Venice's 1-mile-long (1.6 km) gently-sloping beach. Cottages and housekeeping tents were available for rent.[citation needed] The population (3,119 residents in 1910) soon exceeded 10,000; the town drew 50,000 to 150,000 tourists on weekends https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,... #venicebeach#losangeles#santamonica#california#drivingtour#nightdrive