Along the Big Lagoon, built an amusement park, surrounded by chetyrehkilometrovoy railway, exhibition halls, shops and booths freak-show. Money flowed so quickly that soon the next two-kilometer beach lined with summer cottages, built an aquarium, a hippodrome, and two piers with amusement. But the great depression and the fires, the perpetrators have been homeless, have turned the resort into wasteland. She was chosen by vagrants and drug addicts, because of what Venice Beach even got a new name of "slum by the sea." Demand for local real estate has fallen so much that after World War II settled here mostly immigrants from Europe, attracted by the cheap bungalows. And at the end of 1950 they were joined by beatniks, staged a beach cafes performances of "Jazz and Poetry." Their main theme was the rebellious romanticism of slums - the one that has a significant influence on American culture and to this day. The glory of the main habitat beat Venice can not claim - the largest of their colonies were located in San Francisco and New York. But the laurels of Venice Beach and the nearby Santa Monica as the homeland of skateboarders do not encroach no. It was here 1970 - Group E tousled boys. United in the team now legendary Z-Boys, invented a flying-turns on a skateboard, who later became a classic skateboarding. Z-Boys "was used for their Exercise everything that came under his feet, and their followers to set aside at the beach a skate park in which they hone their skills until dark.
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