Venice Beach and Santa Monica Tours - Hearst's Father

http://venicebeachbustours.com/ --- HISTORICAL TOUR OF VENICE and SANTA MONICA - Come and explore Venice Beach and Santa Monica as we bring their rich histories to life and show you how they were Then, and as they are Now.
Our presentation includes video clips, still pictures and narrated descriptions of the amazing history of this beautiful ocean bay. You'll learn about an early movie studio on the beach, the amusement parks that preceded the Santa Monica Pier, the first full length comedy film, and the first radio evangelist to reach a mass audience.

Anecdotes of bigger-than-life personalities such as Cary Grant, Amiee Semple McPherson, Charlie Chaplin, Orson Wells, Marlena Detrich, Abbott Kinney, Marion Davies, Thelma Todd, The Keystone Kops, and the parts all these people played in the formation of this magical place. Included are features once central to life along the bay that have since receded into the past. The tour is 3-4 hours long with stops at Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica Pier, Venice and Muscle Beach. We'll walk where famous movies were filmed. For example, although "A Touch of Evil" with Orson Wells and Charlton Heston was filmed right next to the beach in Venice, you'd never know it from watching the movie because it was filmed with the cameras facing away from the ocean.

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