Editing Venice, Los Angeles (section)

===Amusement pier===
{{main|Abbot Kinney Pier}}
[[File:1917.07.19 Venice Vanguard.jpg|thumb|Special edition of the ''Venice Daily Vanguard,'' dated July 19, 1913. A female figure labeled "Prosperity" is gesturing toward the [[#Amusement pier|Venice Amusement Pier]] at bottom left.]]
[[File:Several people stroll by the Dance Hall on the Amusement Pier at Venice Beach, ca.1900-1920.jpg|thumb|right|People strolling by the dance hall on the amusement pier, {{circa}} 1900–1920]]
[[File:Crowds outside at the Venice Beach Amusement Park in Venice, between Seventeenth Street and Thirty-fourth Street along the ocean front, ca.1900-1920 (examiner-m3800).jpg|thumb|right|Crowds between 17th and 34th streets, with roller coaster in background, {{circa}} 1900–1920]] For the amusement of the public, Kinney hired aviators to do aerial stunts over the beach. One of them, movie aviator and Venice airport owner [[B. H. DeLay]], implemented the first lighted airport in the United States on DeLay Field (previously known as [[Ince Field]]). After a marine rescue attempt was thwarted, he organized the first aerial police force in the nation. DeLay performed many of the world's first aerial stunts for motion pictures in Venice.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}

Attractions on the Kinney Pier became more amusement-oriented by 1910, when a [[Venice Miniature Railway]], Aquarium, Virginia Reel, Whip, Racing Derby, and other rides and game booths were added. Since the business district was allotted only three one-block-long streets, and the City Hall was more than a mile away, other competing business districts developed. Unfortunately, this created a fractious political climate. Kinney, however, governed with an iron hand and kept things in check. When he died in November 1920, Venice became harder to govern. With the amusement pier burning six weeks later in December 1920, and [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]] (which had begun the previous January), the town's tax revenue was severely affected.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}

The Kinney family rebuilt their amusement pier quickly to compete with Ocean Park's [[Pickering Pleasure Pier]] and the new [[Sunset Pier]]. When it opened it had two roller coasters, a new Racing Derby, a Noah's Ark, a Mill Chutes, and many other rides. By 1925, with the addition of a third coaster, a tall Dragon Slide, [[Fun House]], and Flying Circus aerial ride, it was the finest amusement pier on the West Coast. Several hundred thousand tourists visited on weekends. In 1923, Charles Lick built the [[Lick Pier]] at Navy Street in Venice, adjacent to the Ocean Park Pier at Pier Avenue in Ocean Park. Another pier was planned for Venice in 1925 at Leona Street (now Washington Street).