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Originally Posted by Dottore
I most certainly did. Thank you for reminding me. Spent a wonderful weekend there a few years ago. Great little town. I love the hills just to the west of Ojai. That would be a perfect place to retire IMO.
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You'd be living in "Shangri-La"..
"Another pseudo-legend involves the Ojai Valley as the location for the 1937 Frank Capra film Lost Horizon. The outdoor scenes of the villagers of Shangri-La and a cavorting Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt were in fact filmed in nearby Sherwood Forest (Westlake Village) and Palm Springs. The exterior of the grand lamasery was built and later dismantled on the Columbia Ranch in Burbank, California.[6][dead link] However, according to film historian Kendall Miller in the photodocumentary bonus feature on the "Lost Horizon" DVD, an aerial shot of Ojai Valley taken from an outlook on Highway 150 was used to represent the Shangri-La valley."