Editing Venice, Los Angeles (section)

===Neglect===
After annexation, the city of Los Angeles showed little interest in maintaining the unusual neighborhood. Most of the canals were filled in and paved over, and the former lagoon became a traffic circle. The neighborhood lacked the automobile-centric, homogeneous character that the city sought to cultivate in the post-World War II era, and was perceived as a dated, obsolete remnant of earlier decades' land speculation.<ref>{{Cite web|date=March 3, 1939|title=FHA Area Description of South Venice|url=https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=13/33.984/-118.454&city=los-angeles-ca&area=D26&adview=full&adimage=3/76.08/-148.184|website=Mapping Inequality}}</ref>

Los Angeles had neglected Venice so long that, by the 1950s the neglect had led to the area being labeled the "Slum by the Sea". With the exception of new police and fire stations in 1930, the city spent little on improvements after annexation. The city did not pave Trolleyway (Pacific Avenue) until 1954 when county and state funds became available. Low rents for run-down bungalows attracted predominantly European immigrants (including a substantial number of [[Holocaust]] survivors) and young [[counterculture]] artists, poets, and writers. The [[Beat Generation]] hung out at the Gas House on Ocean Front Walk and at Venice West Cafe on Dudley.<ref name=venicewest />