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Originally Posted by Jungmann
Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum
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Interesting. Never heard of this place before!
1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga 90290.
Looks like a very active place.
From the website:
https://theatricum.com
[In the 1950's]...for Geer and his young family, the McCarthy Era had arrived. Relocating to an acreage in Topanga, California, Mr. Geer established a theatre for similarly blacklisted actors and folk singers on the property. Because he held a degree in botany (one of his life long interests) the theater was named for a landmark botany text book, Theatricum Botanicum, which means, quite literally, “a garden theatre.”
There's quite a lengthy Will Geer Road, also in Topanga.
ER, the website notes Will Geer was an Indiana native. Did you know that?