• Brief article, mostly pics, about Gold's Gym in Venice:
• https://venicebeachca.com/blog/gold-s-gym.html

Photo of a sunset at Venice Beach, California using my phone.

Bentonville Film Festival will screen the world Premiere of “Street Smart” on June 18. There will be a Q&A with director Catherine Hardwicke.

The film “follows a lively group of street kids in Venice Beach help each other chase their dreams — with humor, street-smarts, and Robin Hood larceny.”

• This is from the post where I made the mistake of saying Lincoln and Rose instead of Lincoln and Venice Blvd.
• I have already deleted a few duplicate comments.
• https://www.reddit.com/r/VeniceBeach/comments/1tbzmua/gas_prices_chevron_lincoln_and_rose/
• I feel like I'm missing something. I can understand commenting on a post title that links to an article that the redditor didn't read. Not that I'm saying it's good that a redditor does that, but I can see how the redditor thinks they know what the article is about based on the title and want to vent about it.
• But taking the effort to post a comment without bothering to see if the comment has already been made when there are only a few comments, seems so odd I feel like I'm not understanding something about human nature.
• It's like reading a review of a product on Amazon.com and the review is "I just received the package in the mail and haven't opened it yet." Why would someone bother posting that? They add nothing to the conversation.
• What is going on for people that post the comment that's already been made?

• Great, roads closed.
• Last race, I was at Cow's End and wanted to get to Westminster dog park. Pacific Ave to get to Westminster was closed and the only way to get there was to go down Washington Blvd to Sepulveda, get on Santa Monica Blvd and head back only to find that road closures at Rose Ave and Pacific prevented the same access.
• This can't be good for businesses. There's a huge walkway called the boardwalk aka Ocean Front Walk that would require no closures, be perfect for spectators and great for businsesses.
• Why not have these races on the boardwalk?
• https://runvenicebeach.com/venicebeachhalf/race-day

• Chamberlain Coffee has opened. The owner is a 24 year old influencer. Geez!
• Went in to Abbot's Pizza Factory. Menu has no pricing. The reasons why it would have no pricing do not bode well for the biz. I give the place a year before it closes.
• New shop, Lil Sweet Treat. Bins full of candy you scoop into a bag and pay by weight.
• A lot of entrepreneurs have their tables/vans full of goods at the curb. I was always pleased to see them until a shop owner told me they take up parking spaces that would go to a customer. It looks like Birkenstock is fighting fire with fire, getting their own customized van to park in front of their store.
• Pleased to see the tuxedo rabbits mural is still intact throughout the many changes of the store it is in front of.
• Wasn't there a plaque on top of the stands at the rainbow crosswalk? Wonder what happened to them.
• I don't understand the business model of food trucks. It seems like the food should cost less as they don't have the overhead that a brick and mortar restaurant has. Low cost comfort food I thought would be their selling point. But they charge the same, if not more. GamGam burger, for example. $11 for a burger, $7 for fries and $3 for a drink. I guess it's for tourists with disposable income that happen to walk by and have no idea or care about the price. But every food truck every where has crazy pricing.

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Jim Morrison office space and

The Doors event space