Monday, November 27, 2006

Where in LA?**corrected**

Today, LA Frog posts about "Santa Monica's Muscle Beach." Well, there must be some confusion. Santa Monica doesn't have a "muscle beach"; Venice does. So, the image being referenced must be either in Venice or not at Muscle Beach.

Note: LA Frog is written by a Parisian transplant to LA, so I guess it could be confusing.

Note after posting: See Eric's comments below. I stand corrected. (To err is human, after all.)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Incorrect. Santa Monica was home to the original Muscle Beach and the area south of the pier pays homage to that today. Though I hate citing Wikipedia, the entry there gives a basic history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_Beach

LA City Nerd said...

Eric-
If I ever die or become unable to do this whole blog thing - I'm turning the reigns over to you! Thanks for the clarification.

The coastline is not my general expertise expertise, but I know for sure that Venice (in the City) has a Muscle Beach.

I'll leave this meager post up to allow others to see this City Nerd's humanity, as much as I hate to be wrong.

Anonymous said...

I've made many a "D'oh" type post. LA's too big for someone to know all of it.

I only know the Muscle Beach bit because I used to pretend to be able to do the rings at the Santa Monica one (and by pretend I really mean I would make it a good two or three rings out) and encountered that same question of "Wait, I thought Muscle Beach was Venice?"