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Lake Enchanto was briefly owned by Arthur Edeson and Warren Shobert, members of the Malibou Lake Mountain Club, who thought to turn the area into a destination resort. Together with their partner, lawyer Charles Hinman, they built a dance floor, canoe lake, and the largest swimming pool in the Western United States at the time, which could fit over 3,000 swimmers. Lake Enchanto waned in popularity through the 1960s, eventually shutting down when Hinman went to jail in 1969. In 1977, actor Peter Strauss purchased the land, fixed it up, and sold it to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy. The area is now open to the public as the Peter Strauss Ranch, part of the Santa Monica Mountains State Park.
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