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NETTIE BOUCK was a young girl from San Francisco. Felix Peano was an Italian Sculptor hires by Abbott Kinney to erect Pillars along Windward Ave in Venice by the Sea.

In 1905/6 Nettie was not yet married to C.Harnish Bouck. She was Miss Henrietta Lillis Robinson, born in San Francisco in 1887.

Nettie had been coming to Garden Grove to visit her Grandparents since about 1900. Coming by way of the Santa Rosa Ship lines that would dock at the Long Pier just below the Ringe property ( now known by their southern border as Topanga Canyon. Back in those days they owned land all the way to the Ventura County line..

Nettie met Harnish at a 2 lane bowling alley in Ocean Park in 1903. Harnish was a pin setter while attending Woodbury College in L.A. He became an Engineer and was hired by Abbott Kinney to work alongside Captain Stutzer on Engineering and building the Venice Canals.

Nettie and Harnish were the first couple married in Venice in December 1906. Nettie moved from San Francisco after the Earthquake in April of 1906.

Their First Child was the First Boy born in Venice on August 31,1909 and named Jacklin Henry Bouck. This child became the half owner of Kelbos Hawaiian Restaurant and founder of the Bay Area Hotel and Restaurant Association.