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Castroville crowns an artichoke queen
1948
Castroville, California
Dana Payne · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The town grows most of the country's artichokes and says so on an arch across the road. In 1948 its festival named a first Artichoke Queen: a twenty-two-year-old model then called Norma Jeane, photographed in a sash holding a vegetable, about four years before anybody knew her by the other name.
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