Fascinating! I lived there for a few years, not far from Rose in what was inappropriately called Ghost Town, when I worked at MGM (I used to ride my bike to the studio), and of course as a kid was driven through there every Saturday when we went to Topanga Canyon to visit my half-sister. The glimpse of POP up one of the streets . . . the murals . . . we didn't like the beaches because of the huge tar smears that would attach to our feet and were so hard to scrape off. But Venice itself was cool.