Marina del Rey Historical Society Gets New Home

MARINA DEL REY — Where do you go in Marina del Rey to see photos of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on a road bike, or evidence that actress Sally Field wasn’t so much a flying nun as she was a woman strapped to the end of a boom? Or Jacques Cousteau pondering life on a hotel balcony? The answers lie in the hundreds of photos that cover the walls of Marina del Rey Historical Society’s first permanent home at Fisherman’s Village. Thousands and thousands of photographs that span the birth of the swampy seaside city to the small craft mecca that it has become will be available for viewing and purchase from the new location beginning, Thursday, April 10, when the society will hold its grand opening. “Before now everything was mobile,” said Howard Wenger, site manager for the organization. “[We would be] displaying photos at booths at farmer’s markets and public events.” Now in addition to the mobile displays that the society will continue to present, they’ll have a small building that features a series of old photos which were almost exclusively taken or collected by the organization’s founder, Greg Wenger. “My dad was a photographer for Pan Am back in the ’60s, when dignitaries...