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    Column: The Venice Heritage Museum tackles a complicated subject — the beach town's reinventions

    History is a complicated subject in a place that embraces reinvention as strongly as Venice Beach, and you can tell by the neighborhood's murals. There's Jim Morrison of the Doors; the cigar magnate Abbot Kinney, widely thought of as Venice's founder; and Teena Marie, a white soul singer from Oakwood, Venice's historic Black community. But there's also Chester the Cheetah, the Chinese ...
    by Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times May 17, 2024 3 minutes
    Venice Heritage Museum Creative Director and Board Member Michael Murphy stands inside the new museum that features vintage photographs, postcards, videos and other historic artifacts.

    History is a complicated subject in a place that embraces reinvention as strongly as Venice Beach, and you can tell by the neighborhood's murals.

    There's Jim Morrison of the Doors; the cigar magnate Abbot Kinney, widely thought of as Venice's founder; and Teena Marie, a white soul singer from Oakwood, Venice's historic Black community. But there's also Chester the Cheetah, the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, Albert Einstein and what feels like one young Arnold Schwarzenegger per block.

    One mural even steps on this column's theme: "Venice Kinesis" features a roller skater posed like the Roman

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