PC-002-840

Venice by night, Venice, California

 

 

 

 

This "Venice by Night" card, in contrast to PC-002-837, appears to be in daylight. A beacon shines out to the ocean from the Venice Auditorium just to the right of a lighted boardwalk on the far left, and all the lights appear to be lit on the Abbot Kinney Pier and that area, but there are bathers on the beach on the far right. In about the center just below the vertical middle what looks like a ship is actually the Ship Cafe, built as a restaurant and hotel to look like Juan Cabrillo's Spanish galleon. Beyond it are the rides and other amusements of the Pier, extending back to the shore. The number 6900 appears in the lower left corner. This is a fuzzy colored version of a photograph used by the Edward Mitchell Company with the same number and cropped in the same way, using the same wording and font. The photograph was for sale on the CardCow Web site in November of 2014. This card would have been produced between 1907 (divided back) and 1920, when this original Pier burned down. On the back of the card are scrawled some pencil marks that might be 4 AM F737V (or checkmark).

Venice, California; Ship Cafe; Venice Auditorium; Venetian Gardens; Auditoriums; Auditoria; Cafes; Hotels; Restaurants

 

California - Venice - Waterfront

 

 

MS-0008

 

Cardinell-Vincent Company, San Francisco/Los Angeles, California

Postcard

3.5 inches X 5.5 inches

No

PC-002-837

 

 

Image

TIFF

20.73 MB