"By 1965, it moved to Paramount Ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains" Fun personal fact: Paramount Ranch was also the site of my high school's home cross countr

"By 1965, it moved to Paramount Ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains" Fun personal fact: Paramount Ranch was also the site of my high school's home cross country course (Westlake High School). During my high school days, the ranch's center was set up as a western town for filming Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. As a kid, you just accept all of that as normal, everyday things. "Doesn't everyone have Renaissance fairs and TV and movie sets in their town?" It took going to college thousands of miles away to realize and appreciate how delightfully weird Southern California can be.