Have to admit that when I got my first decent job in the 80s it was in West Los Angeles. Read a ton of Raymond Chandler, who wrote about hard boiled detectives

Have to admit that when I got my first decent job in the 80s it was in West Los Angeles. Read a ton of Raymond Chandler, who wrote about hard boiled detectives in the 1930s. Surprisingly, Venice and many of its people were recognizable from his descriptions.