Theatricum Botanicum
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We watched it all burn down and didn't know anything. |
| 0:09.2 | That singer-songwriter, Angel Olson, performing last year at the Atricoma Botanica, a theater |
| 0:15.0 | in the heart of a canyon shaded by trees and lit by the stars. |
| 0:19.7 | It's a beautiful, beautiful canyon filled with California live oaks, so it makes a very |
| 0:27.1 | special place. |
| 0:28.1 | It's in between the valley and the sea. |
| 0:30.9 | And when you leave the chaos of the city and you turn the corner and come up the winding |
| 0:35.5 | road, you come to a place that says, well, dear, the Atricoma Botanica. |
| 0:45.6 | Last year, Atlas Obsgira partnered with Angel Olson to put on that concert, and we did |
| 0:51.0 | it at the Atricoma Botanica. |
| 0:53.5 | Because that theater is everything that Atlas Obsgira loves, and it's this hidden, surprising |
| 0:58.6 | place with this hidden, surprising story. |
| 1:01.7 | It's not just some theater or a beautiful little hideout. |
| 1:06.0 | It's a piece of American history, it's a refuge for persecuted artists and was a home |
| 1:11.6 | for those that Hollywood kicked out. |
| 1:19.3 | I'm Dylan Thoris, and this is Atlas Obsgira, celebration of the world's strange, incredible, |
| 1:24.8 | and wondrous places. |
| 1:26.4 | Today we're visiting the Atricoma Botanica in Topanga Canyon, just outside of Los Angeles. |
| 1:32.2 | To place where art, nature, and history all meet beneath the wide California sky. |
| 1:39.4 | More. |
| 1:40.4 | After this. |
| 1:49.3 | It's just like being in a piece of heaven, it's so quiet. |
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