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Thursday, October 7, 2010 – 15 Rose

Whimsy – the hotel at 15 Rose Avenue in Venice Beach, a few steps from the sand – the place was built in 1908 by Abbot Kinney, the founder of Venice Beach, and was turned into a hotel in the twenties, the Venice Rose Hotel – and it's been a hotel on and off since then. Kinney's canals are pretty much gone – a second Venice, in Southern California, might have been a bad idea – as are the amusement pier and dance halls and all the rest. But here it's 1908 again.

In a hidden garden next door –

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