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THESE ARE ALL FROM MY FIRST ROLL OF BLACK AND WHITE

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Guest		30-Jun-2012 04:16
Always had the hots for him! Lorrie Brown

david w		11-Dec-2011 17:30
I remember Robin - he always seemed pretty gay-friendly, and I also remember going bodysurfing one morning at the break of dawn and seeing him jogging on the beach naked. the nude beach summer combined with the arrival of the roller skate rentals really spelled the begining of the end of the old venice magic.

Deb		18-Jan-2009 08:02
I remember it, I went topless on the other side of the wall until the wierdos started coming around.

Guest		16-Oct-2007 17:22
There was also the nude beach at Topanga. Topanga and Venice seemed entertwined to me somehow. I guess the same energy and vibe. We were always in Venice or Topanga

Guest		05-Oct-2005 17:39
I remember my mom, Prudy, passing out band-aids to all of the women so they could cover their nipples - you were not considered naked if your nips didn't show

flower		23-Aug-2005 23:51
My mom got arrested on that nude beach while she was pregnant with me!!

Guest		23-Aug-2005 16:03
Yeah I remember when the nude beach was really just us locals for awhile. Since I was a hippy beach kid it was normal to see "grown ups" naked, but as I got older (like around 7 or 8, latency age), I found it highly embarassing! I would wear my bathing suit while all the grown ups flopped around freely (gross!). Then all the "looky-loos" started coming and it got really annoying! Guys would come and stare at my mom who seemed oblivious. I would glare back at them and try to "vibe them out" (the beginning of a hardcore local attitude!). Then the cops started busting people and I was so worried my mom or other family would get hauled off to jail naked!!!! Before the law changed the cops started harrassing us by going up to butt-naked people on the beach and asking them for ID. If you didn't have it they might run a warrant check on you and then take you in. (Hopefully with your towel!). No one took their ID to the beach... And back then, everybody had warrants...

venicepix		22-Aug-2005 00:43
It never dawned on me that all you youngsters might not know about the nude beach. It all came about because a state court ruled that nudity was not, in and of itself, lewd and lascivious behaviour, and all the laws on the books were against L&L, not nudity per se. In most communities nothing much changed but in Venice, as soon as word got out, the lesbians started ditching their tops(Go Girls!!). At that point the small gay beach had moved from just South ot the ruins of POP to the stretch between Brooks and the Breakwater (actually the inland WEHO,[a term that had not yet been invented] upscale, [another term that had not yet been invented] gay folk still frequented Will Rogers Beach, down the street from the Friendship Tavern [gone but not forgotten sob!]) And then a funny thing happened: people started coming here...lots of people, to rent roller skates and to see all the unashamed nakedness. Imagine the Brooks jetty covered with tripods and telephotos, and the Venice sewers etc. had never been so well maintained...(the crews would take their lunch breaks on the beach, between Brooks and the wall) ...finally one would run into old guys (as old as I am now...urp!) walking back to their cars wearing black leather shoes, black socks, white undershirts.......did I say pants? I don't think I said pants! Yeah shoes, socks, undershirts..that's it! Well obviously, something had to be done.... Finally the county outlawed nudity on public parks and beaches, and there wasn't a lot of opposition to it. Most of us were fed up with the crowds and hoped that if people put their clothes back on it would all go away Obviously, we were wrong....

Guest		21-Aug-2005 20:32
Y'all see where that is, right there on Windward... And Venice was a nude beach for a quite awhile, between the Breakwater and RoseAve...

venicepix		20-Aug-2005 04:38
Robin was the first local to openly communicate with us on the beach. He came jogging by us one morning on the beach and totally surprised me by smirking and giving a little wave and grunt hello............he was totally naked at the time ( There was also the time when Allen Sarlo rode a long, naked, breakwater left on a crowded Sunday....and he was regular foot....