News of Venice, CA and Marina del Rey CA
Once again the mural at 1416 Abbot Kinney gets graffitied as reported by Stewart Oscars. The mural is still within the security camera eyes, July the mural was graffitied and vandals were caught on security cameras. Mural was cleaned and here it is today. Vandals have not been caught.
West side of hall.
East side of hall.
Abbot Kinney, the dreamer.
Abbot Kinney had a dream. So did Patrick Marston.
Kinney wanted a Venice. Marston wanted to depict the Kinney dream in a mural for Google.
They both succeeded. Local artist Patrick Marston won Venice Google’s challenge to do a mural for a long hallway in the binocular building on Main.
He envisioned the time setting of the 20th century that Abbot Kinney was dreaming his dream – telephone, radio, airplane, typewriter were all starting and “even basketball” according to Marston.
Marston had an open house Friday night to unveil the mural, which is in two pieces, lining both sides of a long hall. He also showed some of his other works. Marston said he worked the midnight shift to stay out of way of workers.
Denise Fast is giving him a gallery on Washington Blvd at Yale, below her office, to display his art.
Speedway and Washington. It is another Jonas Never creation or replica.
(Photo taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt and published in Life magazine in 1945.)
Jonas Never painted the famous “Kiss” on the wall at Speedway and Washington. He has that special way of capturing part of history that is “oh, so dear.” He does it in black and white and paints it like a photo or a story of yesterday.
The Kiss, which it is now referred to, went “viral” in the 40’s and is still hot. It is the classic photo taken in Times Square epitomizing the end of World War II and illustrating the jubilance expressed throughout the United States that V-J Day–14 August 1945.
The story behind the story is that no one knew the sailor. Several claimed the fame. The photographer was Alfred Eisenstaedt. Clarissa Cervantes contributed a story for Sandra Starr’s Silver Strand News that talks about photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. http://mdrsilverstrandnews.wordpress.com/. But the woman?
It was Edith Shain
The woman was then nursing student Edith Shain of New York Doctors Nursing School and later a resident of Santa Monica and West Los Angeles until she passed away in 2010. She was a kindergarten teacher in Hancock Park and Burbank for 30 years after getting a bachelors degree in education from New York University.
Leslie Dutton of Full Disclosure knew and was in business with Edith Shain in Marina del Rey.
Shain co-founded the Full Disclosure Public access show back in 1992 and was Director of the non-profit educational 501(c)(3) organization AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN that sponsored the Trademarked FULL DISCLOSURE and FULL DISCLOSURE NETWORK public affairs cable and Internet TV Program.
“Yes we re-inacted “the kiss” on V-J Day anniversary with Edith Shain and one of the fellows who claimed to be the sailor, ” wrote Dutton. “She passed away in 2010 after traveling all over the world honoring our Veterans in parades and major TV events.
“Edith stood 4’9” tall but was a giant of a woman who raised a family, as a public school teacher, and was a professional in medicine and TV producer. She also happened to be born in 1918 and lived through all the drastic social changes that took place in the last century.
“We miss her so, as she was full of life and enthusiasm right up till the end, when her sudden illness took her from us. Fortunately, I was there as she prepared to depart at 92 and she was telling jokes and reminding us of the person who once asked her: Who would want to live to be 100 years old? She responded, someone who is 98. And that is the way she felt about life and lived it to the fullest every day.
“She appeared in many of our early TV programs and will remain alive in our Archives forever.”
Announcement of her death 20 June 2010 by her family stated “Ms. Shain was a Registered Nurse, kindergarten teacher, public access cable television producer who became a world famous figure following her participation in the 50th Anniversary of V-J Day in August of 1995.
Edith Shain’s participation in Veteran Memorial events included:
. 60th Year Anniversary WW II to New York Times Square*
. 25 ft. statute next to the war ship in San Diego
. Grand Marshall of numerous parades
. Grand Marshall Veterans Day in NY City*
. Laid Down the wreath of WW2 Tundra Tomb Washington D.C.
. Numerous overseas appearances for Veterans Memorial event