A U.S. post office in Venice (the beach neighborhood in California, not the one in Italy) which includes an 1941 mural and began as a 1939 WPA building, has been purchased by Movie producer Joel Silver (“The Matrix,” “Lethal Weapon” and “Sherlock Holmes”). He plans to re-use the historic site as the new home of his Silver Pictures.

  • BeaverBeaver

    This was big news when I lived there, not Joel Silver buying it, but rather who would buy it. It’s a giant lot in the middle of Venice. The concern was condos sweeping in and overloading the area which has pretty small streets and lots of beach traffic.

    This is awesome though, I move away and all of a sudden the area is all gettin new shit and shit. The day I moved into my last apartment there  someone was shot in the head on my corner. 

  • RobDobbs

    WPA-era? Whassat?

    • Paul Renault

      It came after the WEP era.

      /I can’t believe I’m frist, even four hours later!

      /I’m wondering if, from now on, we’re supposed to call it the ‘Silv-era’…

  • EH

    What do the website meetings sound like where they say, “Then, after the user has been reading for a bit, code something to push all the content down by half a screen. Can we do this?”

  • MonkeyBoy

    That used to be my post office when I was a home owner years ago in Venice.

    The actual WPA building is rather small but as I recall had cool murals inside involving workers, Kennyy, and oil derricks. There were often “colorful” characters waiting in line there.

    From the Google Maps view (I hope I linked this correctly to be anaerial zoom) the WPA building is just the small part with the red tile roof. Around it is a much larger structure for mail handling and some of those parking lots were for PO trucks.

    That area was (and probably still is) one of the “hippest” parts of Venice. People probably wanted to use the property for restaurants, stores, or housing but the parking situation around there is so horrible that such plans couldn’t work.