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Sandi Hemmerlein

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Sandi Hemmerlein, Atlas Obscura Los Angeles Field Agent 2013-2019 http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sandi-hemmerlein-avoiding-regret Writer, Photographer, Traveler, Romantic, Naturalist, Urbanist. Brunette living in a blonde city. Specialties include incredible ruins, beautiful decay, disaster sites, cemeteries, ghost towns, fascinating fauna, outsider art, architecture, natural wonders, movie palaces, stained glass, factory tours, and the creepy and macabre - Two-time ScareLA panelist & Midsummer Scream panel producer / moderator - Contributing writer for KCET, Discover Los Angeles - Current member of The Los Angeles Breakfast Club, Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation, Friends of Rockhaven (lifetime), Historical Society of Crescenta Valley, Rim of the World Historical Society - Former Los Angeles City Historical Society Board Member, Events Committee & Social Media Chair - Former member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, LA Conservancy, Art Deco Society, San Fernando Valley Historical Society FB/IG @avoidingregret
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Blueprints and models show how the Bowl's stage looked over the decades

Los Angeles, California

Hollywood Bowl Museum

This museum is a music lover's introduction to the iconic venue.

Site of Charlie Chaplin Studios

Los Angeles, California

Site of Charlie Chaplin Studios

The Hollywood home of Kermit the Frog and Yoda used to be Charlie Chaplin's film studio.

Hemet Maze Stone

Hemet, California

Hemet Maze Stone

This mysterious petroglyph evokes the ancient swastika symbol but was later vandalized with the more troublesome Nazi one.

Overhead photo of the viewing deck

Phoenix, Arizona

Arizona Falls

A historic hydroelectric power plant serves as the unusual backdrop for a public park.

A sign declares this the oldest bar in Nevada.

Genoa, Nevada

Genoa Bar & Saloon

Decor at “Nevada’s Oldest Thirst Parlor” includes Raquel Welch's brassiere hanging from a stuffed moose head.

Hole 1

La Cañada Flintridge, California

Oak Grove Disc Golf Course

The world's first disc golf course has the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a neighbor.

The kiosk.

New York, New York

Queensboro Trolley Kiosk

A forgotten relic from New York's bygone trolley system hides in plain sight under a bridge.

Cole Porter's Piano

New York, New York

Cole Porter's Piano

A famous songsmith's custom piano, dubbed "High Society," is hidden just out of sight in one of New York's finest hotels.

Citigroup Center

New York, New York

Citigroup Center Stilts

If it hadn't been caught in time, a flaw in the design of this Manhattan skyscraper could have led to its collapse.

Brooklyn, New York

Greenpoint Oil Spill

A 120-year oil leak slowly unleashes more gallons of oil than the Exxon/Mobil disaster.

West Eighth Street–New York Aquarium.

Brooklyn, New York

West 8th Street - NY Aquarium Subway Station

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

Looking south on Thirteenth Avenue

New York, New York

The Remnants of Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

39 to 45 Greenpoint Avenue (at center of view)

Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn's Converted Pencil Factory

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

Hebe the water-bearer atop the fountain

New York, New York

Tompkins Square Temperance Fountain

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

Coconut Cake and Planter’s Punch.

Brooklyn, New York

Gage & Tollner

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

Chuck Close's mosaic portrait Sienna Shields.

New York, New York

Second Avenue Subway Art

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

President Ulysses S. Grant's Tomb

New York, New York

President Ulysses S. Grant's Tomb

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Doheny Mansion, Los Angeles, Ca 11/2022

Los Angeles, California

Doheny Mansion

Built in 1899, this luxurious home was part of one of the first gated communities in Los Angeles.

International Printing Museum

Carson, California

International Printing Museum

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.

The entrance to the sculpture garden

Cerritos, California

Cerritos Sculpture Garden

A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.

Tilted strata on the way out.

Barstow, California

Rainbow Basin

Colorful sedimentary rock layers provide opportunities both for hiking and photography.

Due to changing hands and responsibilities throughout the years, the lighthouse has fallen into disrepair.

Pescadero, California

Pigeon Point Lighthouse

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Travel Town

Los Angeles, California

Travel Town Museum

A miniature train theme park, free to the public, laying at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains.

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