Landmark
Abbot Kinney Boulevard
Abbot Kinney Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Mile-long shopping street of boutiques and galleries born from a coin-flip land deal over marshland.
This guide to Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice starts with a 1902 coin toss between cigarette millionaire Abbot Kinney and his business partners over a stretch of marshy coastline, and the fantasy beach city of canals and gondolas he built on the half everyone else considered worthless. It follows Kinney's tobacco fortune, his death in 1920, and the decades of decline that followed for the neighborhood he founded. The road itself was once just a plain service street called West Washington Boulevard.
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