"Why, you may ask, are we rushing north on Interstate 5 and veering east on California 126 into the Santa Clara Valley? Why are we pulling off the road by a fruit stand and slipping into the backyard? Are we going to tip a cow? Steal oranges?
"We are not. We are here for a date with a black-haired, blue-eyed beauty named Ramona.
'She is, by at least one historian's reckoning, 'the most important woman in the history of Southern California.' She boosted D.W. Griffith's film career, offered gainful employment to Loretta Young and Dolores del Rio, gave Raquel Welch a big break, inspired countless architects and helped write the map for this region's tourism industry."
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