Tom Moran and Tom Sewell Fantasy by the Sea Peace Press: Culver City, CA, 1980 (1979) (Originally published by Beyond Baroque Foundation with a grant from the Visual Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts) 1911
The City
"When it was incorporated as a "sixth class city" on February 15th, 1904, Venice was named Ocean Park. It was overseen by a five-member Board of Trustees. The trustees, the city clerk, recorder, treasurer and school board members were all elected officials.
"But there was also a separate "Ocean Park" section in the neighboring city of Santa Monica to the north, and of course Kinney's popular resort within the municipal limits of the incorporated city of Ocean Park was called Venice. Because of the confusion, the name was officially changed to Venice by popular vote in 1911."