Keaton filmed many scenes from The High Sign and The Balloonatic within a small area of Venice.

Start at the northwest corner of Ocean Front and Market (1). On the beach at this corner lies the former site of the Venice Plunge which appeared in The Cameraman.

Continue down Ocean Front to Windward (2). A few remaining buildings along Windward appear in the background as Keaton replaces a cop's gun with a banana in The High Sign.

A bit further down Ocean Front, at the northeast corner of 17th (3), marks the site of the former White House restaurant, featured in The High Sign where Keaton unfolds the enormous single sheet of newspaper.

Continue down Ocean Front until reaching 1811 (4), the place where the cop pulls a banana out of his holster while confronting the towering bad guy.

Continue down Ocean Front and turn left (east) on 19th, until you reach Speedway. Turn left (north) up Speedway until you reach 18th (5). The northeast corner of 18th and Speedway appears in The High Sign. The Seaward Apartments were located one house east from this corner.

Continue up Speedway back to Windward, and turn right (east) until reaching Pacific (6). The building at the northeast corner of Windward and Pacific appears in The Balloonatic. Across from this corner, east of Pacific and between Windward and Venice Way, lies the site of the entrance to the former Race Thru The Clouds roller coaster that could be seen down the street behind the Seaward Apartments.

Turn south down Pacific a bit, and look down Venice Way (7). This marks where Phyllis Haver climbs into her car in The Balloonatic.

This concludes the Venice Tour. If it were the 1920s, you could now stop in at the new Ship Cafe, a popular hangout with Buster and other "movies".

All vintage maps and postcard views of Venice are copyright Jeffrey Stanton, author of "Venice
California - Coney Island of the Pacific.". Be sure to visit his Venice History site at http://naid.sppsr.ucla.edu/venice/