Venice in the 60s

Here's an excerpt from our Travel Columnist's gorgeous memoir.

In the late 1960s, one of the hippest places in Los Angeles was Venice, especially the area known simply as “The Canals.” Small wooden houses fronted on the waterways and backed on narrow alley-like streets.

My parents rented a small apartment near the school where I started the first grade. With her new curvaceous figure, my mom got a job as a cocktail …