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Aside from Camp Erdman's residential cabins, several other buildings and locations in and around its grounds have shown up on LOST. Prime among these is the camp's Assembly Hall. Both the exterior and the interior of this building were used extensively during shooting. The photo below showcases the hall's stone fireplace and also illustrates its proximity to the ocean. For some geographical perspective -- Camp Erdman straddles a highway; on the ocean-side one finds the assembly hall, a few other common buildings, and several groups of residential cabins (that did not appear onscreen). On the other side of the highway lie additional clusters of cabins, some of which appeared onscreen (see previous posts). The stone fireplace exterior can be spotted in season 5's Namaste , both in 1973 and in 2007. There is also a nice shot of the Assembly Hall on one of the season 5 DVD's special features. One face of the Assembly Hall doubled as the exterior of DHARMA's pr...

Something magical happened during our visit to Camp Erdman. As much as I enjoyed every stop on the tour, it was always abundantly clear that we were simply visiting locations in Oahu which had been used to film the television series LOST. At the crash beach Oahu residents lay on the beach suntanning. At the Temple our tour group stood in line for photo ops. But at Camp Erdman, for a few short but scintillating minutes, I was no longer on Oahu. It was not 2011. I had moved to The Island. I stood in Dharmaville. It was August 15th, 1976. The cabins at Camp Erdman back onto a short run of grass and trees which then give way to a range of rugged hills. As I made my way back behind the cabins the sounds of Camp Erdman's young residents (and several intrepid LOST fans) was replaced by the rustling of grass and leaves and the soft moan of the wind. I could see no cars, no antennas, nothing that would suggest I was anywhere other than The Island; with no one else in sight, not...

The home shared by Sawyer and Juliet during their days in the DHARMA Initiative was portrayed by cabin #22 in Camp Erdman. It was also on this cabin's porch that Ben nervously awaited the Smoke Monster in the series finale. The cool Smokey-cam shots from The Substitute provided another glimpse of the building. Kate's approach to drunk Sawyer in What Kate Does shows us a different angle. Back to DHARMA days where the arrival of Jack and Kate complicates Sawyer's life. In the background Kate stands on the porch of cabin #20. And finally a couple of other views on cabin 20, from The Other Woman and The Substitute .