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Santa Monica Update
Beach walking in Santa Monica - 1 June 2020- 2:25 pm
Strange day. Santa Monica beach was open but eerily silent with no people in sight.
Pretty much all stores on the Venice Boardwalk were open -- except restaurants with indoor seating -- but weren’t doing any business. A fair amount of people were about but all seemed to be locals, not tourists. No street performers or art booths on the Pacific side of the walk.
The Marina channel was also empty. I saw one sailboat, one surfer standing on his board paddling with an oar, and one person fishing from shore.
Abbot Kinney looked unscathed by last night’s mischief, but stores were closed. There were a fair amount of people around but most appeared to be looking after their property. I counted 37 stores boarded with plywood, and another 12 in the process of boarding up. Everyone seemed to think the balloon was up for tonight.
The CVS pharmacy on Rose and Main got hit last night, apparently by looters cruising in cars for targets of opportunity while police were occupied elsewhere.
Main Street was unscathed, but here I counted 33 boarded stores and another 3 in the process of boarding up. The boarded include The Firehouse, Wells Fargo, and Bob Dylan’s old recording studio where he recorded Street Legal in 1977.
I’m told curfew started at one pm today but have not confirmed that.
Strange day. Santa Monica beach was open but eerily silent with no people in sight.
Pretty much all stores on the Venice Boardwalk were open -- except restaurants with indoor seating -- but weren’t doing any business. A fair amount of people were about but all seemed to be locals, not tourists. No street performers or art booths on the Pacific side of the walk.
The Marina channel was also empty. I saw one sailboat, one surfer standing on his board paddling with an oar, and one person fishing from shore.
Abbot Kinney looked unscathed by last night’s mischief, but stores were closed. There were a fair amount of people around but most appeared to be looking after their property. I counted 37 stores boarded with plywood, and another 12 in the process of boarding up. Everyone seemed to think the balloon was up for tonight.
The CVS pharmacy on Rose and Main got hit last night, apparently by looters cruising in cars for targets of opportunity while police were occupied elsewhere.
Main Street was unscathed, but here I counted 33 boarded stores and another 3 in the process of boarding up. The boarded include The Firehouse, Wells Fargo, and Bob Dylan’s old recording studio where he recorded Street Legal in 1977.
I’m told curfew started at one pm today but have not confirmed that.
