Sebastian Cadenas » Venice of America http://sebastiancadenas.com The personal blog of Sebastian Cadenas Mon, 14 May 2012 12:58:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Awesomely close to the beach http://sebastiancadenas.com/2010/07/05/awesomely-close-to-the-beach/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=awesomely-close-to-the-beach http://sebastiancadenas.com/2010/07/05/awesomely-close-to-the-beach/#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:20:33 +0000 scadenas http://sebastiancadenas.com/?p=2106 Since middle of April I’m living in Los Angeles. For the first few months I stayed with two friends in Korean town and couple days before I flew to Argentina, last week, I moved, with one of them, to a new apartment in Venice. We live awesomely close to the beach, in a 10 units building where the fire alarm sounded two times before I decided to disconnect it.

Los Angeles is a crazy city, there are more than 14 million people and almost one car per person, there is traffic all around the city and the public transportation is the worst of the country. A high percentage of the population is Latina and there are lot of people who moved to Los Angeles to became part of the ¨entertainment industry” what means lot of cultural activates but a little of superficiality in some of those people.

Venice of America was a neighborhood created by Abbot Kinney, who was an influential businessman and politician, who was fluent in 6 languages. His purpose to create Venice was to share his interest in art and culture and he had the dream of creating a great cultural Mecca in America. Walking the channels is a must to do if you stop by.

If you are from LA, or you have plans to come I want to recommend you two links that a friend sent me after I moved:

  • http://www.good.is/series/walking-in-la/
  • http://www.good.is/post/behold-a-freeway-system-for-cyclists-in-los-angeles/
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