"One Wednesday when I am out tallying all the construction sites for this story, I see Ray Chavez carrying his baby daughter on a walk around the neighborhood, enjoying yet another warm winter day in our beloved community by the sea. It occurs to me that his little girl will have to learn about the old Venice from her father's stories.
"He'll tell her about growing up here, how parents all let their kids roam the town with the only restriction that they be back in time for dinner. And he'll tell her how much her grandfather paid for the house she lives in, and she'll laugh at the impossibility of it."
Martin L. Jacobs in The Argonaut discusses the "mansionization" of East Venice.
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