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10 unusual facts about Ojai


Autumn Reeser

On May 9, 2009, Reeser married writer/director Jesse Warren in Ojai, California.

Daniel Bender

Bender was a restaurateur (Daniel's Bistro in Ojai, California) from 2002-2004, and continues to be the owner of Weather.org.

George S. Stuart

When Stuart moved to Ojai, California in 1959, he opened The Gallery of Historical Figures and began teaching workshops on figural construction, costuming and sculpting faces.

Ksenia Milevskaya

She lives in Minsk, although she trains at the Weil Tennis Academy & College Prep School in Ojai, California, United States, where her coach is Nicolas Beuque.

Mary Lanier

Lanier died on May 23, 2002, in Ojai, California; her cause of death is unknown, but some sources say natural causes.

Ojai Playwrights Conference

The Ojai Playwrights Conference is a theatre festival held annually each August in Ojai, California.

Otto and Vivika Heino

They purchased a house in Ojai, a small community in the mountains northwest of Los Angeles, built by Beatrice Wood, a friend since 1952.

Richard G. Hubler

Richard G. Hubler born Richard Gibson Hubler 20 August 1912 in Dunmore, Pennsylvania died 21 October 1981 of Parkinson's disease in Ojai, California was a prolific American author of biographies, fiction and non-fiction.

Thomas Anthony Thacher

His sons Sherman Day Thacher and William Larned Thacher were the founder of the Thacher School in Ojai, California; and his daughter Elizabeth Sherman Thacher married William Kent (U.S. Congressman).

ZChocolat.com

zChocolat.com is headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France, and has a dedicated logistics center in Forcalquier Alpes de Haute Provence and U.S. office in Ojai, California.


Bardsdale, California

He laid out the town with such street names as San Cayetano, Hueneme, Sespe, Santa Paula, Ventura, Owen, Ojai and Simi Streets, running from north to south, including Chambersburg Street, which was named for Thomas Bard's hometown of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

California State Route 150

In the city of Ojai, it is called Ojai Avenue, and at the junction with State Route 33 (Maricopa Highway), it is co-signed with SR 33 until Meiners Oaks.

Charles Millard Pratt

Pratt had a winter home (also known as Charles Millard Pratt House) designed by architects Greene and Greene in Nordhoff (Ojai), California from 1908–11.

La Conchita, California

1992- renowned Chicago architect Stanley Tigerman Architect, (b. 1930- ) completes the studio home of artist Roger Brown (1941–1997) on Ojai Street.

Michael Jarrell

His "spoken opera" Cassandre, which is based on Christa Wolf's novel Cassandra, was performed at Ojai Festival, CA, June 2008.

Ojai Playwrights Conference

The readings occur at the Zalk Theater on the campus of Ojai's Besant Hill School.

Old American Songs

Set 2 was first performed by William Warfield and Aaron Copland (piano) on 25 May 1958 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and later, in its orchestral form, by Grace Bumbry (mezzo-soprano) and the Ojai Festival Orchestra, conducted by the composer, in Ojai, California.

Pamela Burton

Throughout Burton’s career she has been influenced and informed by where she lived — the hills of Malibu and the valley of Ojai.

Peter L. Gluck

In the 1970s and 1980s Gluck designed projects of all types including the Marriot Casa Marina (Key West, Florida), Ojai Valley Inn (Ojai, California), Trancas Medical Center (Napa, California) work for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, Technimetrics Inc., Lloyd's Bank International in New York, in addition to many private residences.

Rincon Sea Level Road

The Rincon Sea Level Road connected Ventura and Santa Barbara California as an alternative route to traveling up the Ventura River Valley towards Nordoff to the road over Casitas Pass for motorists driving from San Francisco to Los Angeles, California.

Zan Stewart

His colleagues at the Times included jazz writer Don Heckman and noted food writers Colman Andrews, a friend since adolescence in Ojai, and Ruth Reichl.