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Muscle Beach
1934
Santa Monica, California
Marcin Wichary from San Francisco, U.S.A. · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Acrobats and weightlifters worked out on the sand for anyone who cared to watch, and physical culture stopped being eccentric and became Californian. The city closed it in 1959. The scene moved down to Venice, where Schwarzenegger found it in 1968.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: documented spot
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