¶ … battle for Santa Monica Bay
In the history of our nation, few battles have take place on our soil. The oceans which boarder our country also protect it from outsider who would attempt to over through our nation. However, battles are not always military. Currently, numerous cultural battles are taking place in the public arena. Battles over right and wrong, or over what society will allow, and what society considers as disruptive or harmful to our continuance are often more contentious than a military conflict fought on a foreign soil. The case of the Battle for Santa Monica Bay falls into this latter category. The willingness of the state of California to become a center of gambling, with the social maladies which tend to follow the gambling industry was the source of what is referred to as the Battle for Santa Monica Bay.
During the Gold Rush, and for the decades immediately following, California became known as the Land of New Beginnings.
The prospect of unfound gold in the ground created a rush to the West. It seemed as if the entire country was turned on its edge, with the east coast in the air and the West coast sitting at the bottom of the hill. Everything, and every person which was not firmly settled into their own community, and those seeking to start over again migrated to the west, in order to find gold, riches, or possibly prey off those who were not as fortunate.
These events began the culture war for the attitudes and hearts in southern California, which continued into the depression. In the beginning of the 1930's, the depression had taken much of the money out of the leisure economy, and prohibition had taken much of the fun out of dining out. As a result, during the Prohibition years, (1920-1933) Canadian liquor was smuggled into Venice from off-shore rumrunners by high-powered motorboats. They docked beneath the pier in the dead of night, and the mobster
Prohibition bootlegger Tony Cornero built a working agreement with Chicago mobster Johnny Roselli.. Cornero was a San Francisco cabbie before Prohibition. When the laws tried to eliminate alcohol consumption in the country, he turned to smuggling booze from Canada and Mexico up and down the California coast in tugboats. Roselli was an associate of Al Capone who had come West in 1924 to work a variety of rackets with Jack Dragna, who was organizing mob activity in sunny southern California
Tony Cornero rose to economic power to run the operation. Underground tunnels used by utility companies which ran along the alleys which came to and from the waterfront proved handy to the smugglers who delivered to illegal bars in the basements of the business district. Newspaper recorded the police engagements in shoot-outs with rumrunners along the beach near the oceanfront.
When prohibition ended, and Tony Cornero was released from a short internment for Prohibition violations, the lure of easy money in the entertainment industry still held his attention. Like most mobsters, any time the law could be circumvented in order to gain a financial advantage, Tony immediately saw the profit potential for gambling ships. Because the state has passes a number of laws successively restricting gambling on land during the 1930's, the state unknowingly created popularity of the offshore gambling boats. A fleet of these boats began in 1929, and one of the most famous was the Tango. This luxury gambling boat was anchored five miles directly west of the Venice Pier in Santa Monica Bay. Water taxis operated between the piers, and would deposit gamblers at these floating casinos that offered entertainment and dancing in addition to crap tables and roulette.
In 1938 Tony Cornero converted a 41-year-old boat into a gambling ship. The craft was given no motor, as its permanent home was anchored just off shore in the Santa Monica Bay. It had a superstructure which was especially designed as a luxury gambling...
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