Flashback
Flashback: Venice-Nokomis High Students, 1946
At the beach in 1946.

Image: Venice Museum and Archives
Do you know any of these young bathing beauties, captured on an idyllic day at Venice Beach back in the 1940s? They are, from left, Beverly Lanier, Mary Ann Lanier, Gladys Underwood, Ruby Rigby, Miriam Smith and Virginia Bowden. The meaning of the bow and arrow in Beverly’s hand? A minor mystery.