Venice Beach

Venice Beach, California  is a location in the Timekeeper Saga. It is the opening setting to the novel Haunted. In the real world, Venice Beach is a bustling beachfront neighborhood within the city of Los Angeles.

History
Venice is located in Los Angeles County in the city of Los Angeles, which is located in the state of California. The city was founded in 1905 as a seaside resort and remained an independent city until around 1926, when it merged with the city of Los Angeles. It is considered to be a fairly large neighborhood, with the populating being reported at 40,885 in 2008 according the U.S. Census Bureau. Ironically, the neighborhood shares it's name with Venice, Italy.

Venice is well known for being a culture-rich district for the artistic and the creative. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was the epicenter for the Beat generation, who mainly consisted of artists and poets. By the 1970s, there was a surge in more artists building studios in the city. Between the 1980s and 1990s, the city became a mecca for street performing, which essentially turned the neighborhood into a tourist attraction.

Haunted
Venice Beach is where Chloe lived with her mother for two years after moving out of her father's apartment in New York City at age 14. She stayed until her mother's untimely death when she was 17, which is when she had no choice but to move to Rochester to live with her grandparents.

The house in Venice Beach that her mother lived in was sold after her death, but not before Chloe requested that the last of her belongings be shipped to Dixon Mansion in Rochester, New York.

Chloe never goes back to Venice Beach after her mother and her grandparents' deaths, but she doesn't dare get rid of the photographs her mother took of the colorful boardwalk or the trinkets she acquired while living there.