By Carol Fondiller This is a re-print from the July 1969 edition According to the long-term tenants, some of whom have lived at the Ellison for over 15 years, 15 of the […]
Bed and Beer
Get That Filthy Rag Out Of My Yard!
By Carol Fondiller This is a re-print from the April 1978 100th edition The Free Venice Beachhead. My funny Valentine. Your columns not so straight. Shaky grammar. Earnest, pompous, sincere, mistaken, precise, […]
Invasion of the Afflu-Hip
This is a reprint from the December 1974 edition Washington Blvd. was renamed Abbot Kinney Blvd. in 1990 By Carol Fondiller About a year ago at a meeting between the affluent residents […]
OH RATS!
By Carol Fondiller According to the weekly newspaper The Argonaut, May 22, 2003, the Catellus Development company has devised a plan for evicting long-term residents of a 45-acre site situated on a […]
And Further Out
(This is a re-print from the December 1983 Beachhead 15th Anniversary issue) By Carol Fondiller Write about the Free Venice Beachhead. Easy, I thought. Well, it hasn’t been. Something inside me skitters […]
The Case of the Disappearing Benches
By Carol Fondiller Reprinted from the October 1983 issue At one time there were sixty of them. They were double benches. That is, one could sit and face the west and watch […]
A Beach Head Write About the Beachhead
By Carol Fondiller Frankly, I feel as if I’m viewing the decades of the Free Venice Beachhead’s existence on old celluloid film. Jumping and bumping with splats, cracks and flashes. Cutting through […]
The More Things Change…Carol Fondiller Strikes Back from the Archives, March 1985 – Wombs: Property of the State?
By Carol Fondiller I’m holding a picket sign again, my feet hurt again, and people look past the sign that I picked up from a pile of signs, something about abortion being […]
Not Just The Rich Can Live At The Beach
By Carol Fondiller Years ago, shortly after the earth cooled, I became interested in housing matters. It was a matter of self-interest. During the late ‘60s there was a real estate boom, […]
Billy’s Apartment
Carol Fondiller died last Jan. 9 after working most of 41 years on the Beachhead. Here are her comments from March, 2005: By Carol Fondiller The voice on the other end […]
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