“Piers” will be the lecture subject of Domenic Priore, author and historian, at the next Venice Historical Society (VHS) meet 19 August at 7 pm at SPARC, 685 Venice Blvd.
He will discuss will discuss the legendary amusement park piers of the Pacific – Venice-of-America and Ocean Park Piers, including Fraser’s Million Dollar Pier and Pickering Pleasure Pier, also the little-known Crystal Pier. Once they graced the beaches from Santa Monica to Playa del Rey.
Domenic will be talking about those legendary amusement park piers, the movies filmed there, the celebrities who visited, and, a highlight will be the showing of very rare film clips of Mary Pickford and Mabel Normand taken by the piers. The film clips are around 1910-1915.
Admission will be $5 for VHS members and $8 for non-members. Refreshments will be available.
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