A gondolier glides across the lagoon at the end of the Grand Canal in Venice of America, Los Angeles, 1912

Posted on May 28, 2018 by

A gondolier glide across the lagoon at the end of the Grand Canal in Venice of America, Los Angeles, 1912When I look at this photo, I can almost hear the gondolier singing “La Donna È Mobile.” I doubt any of the gondoliers who plied their trade along the Grand Canal in what was then “Venice of America” but we now call Venice Beach actually sang like their Italian counterparts, but their gondolas sure looked authentic. This photo was taken in 1912 on the Grand Canal, which was subsequently paved over and renamed Grand Boulevard. What a shame – I’d rather like to take a gondola ride even though the gondolier would probably be a Venice hipster playing Pavarotti on Spotify via his iPhone.

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2 responses to “A gondolier glides across the lagoon at the end of the Grand Canal in Venice of America, Los Angeles, 1912”

  1. Al Donnelly says:
    November 21, 2021 at 8:16 pm

    This shot’s throwing me. It’s an awfully big fish pond compared to that inlet canal across the ways. And that structure looks sort of like the oddball hotel on the northwest side of the lagoon at Playa del Rey, although with houses around it here. Did one of these canals reach the south to the lagoon through the wasteland that became the Marina? Or can this be pinpointed to reveal what that building was?

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