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I realize that many people do not consider Pomona to be a part of the Inland empire, but Pomona has the Fairplex and the Winter Nationals that affect the entire Inland Empire region....And lets face it...Once you make it over Kellogg Hill, You are not in LA any more Maxine....So here we go.....With some movie trivia.

An I Love Lucy episode featured the main characters of the show "go out to the country" on a day trip to Pomona......This seems abit odd now Consideration Pomona's rapid growth since becoming quite urban, but the episode also shows what the IE looked like before the Mass infusion of People....In 1940, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz spent their honeymoon in downtown Pomona.

Before Disneyland was ever built, the 1940 classic "Mr. Mouse Takes A Trip," Mickey Mouse is taking a train vacation from Burbank to Pomona....The conductor, Pete, won't let him bring Pluto, so he hides Pluto in his suitcase, and tries to hide him all throughout the trip without much luck.....Pete thinks he's won when Pluto is hooked by a mail hook, and Mickey follows, but the twist is they actually got off the train in Pomona, as Mickey said "Look Pluto, Pomona, we're here".

It's a myth that Walt Disney originally planned on having Disneyland built in Pomona, but the city council declined his offer, fearing that the park would not succeed and would cause the city to go into debt.....According to the records though, the topic of Disneyland being built in Pomona was part of 71 other motions before the city council and was never even brought up....Mr. Disney himself decided that Pomona would not be a suitable location because of the extreme Temperature differences, and decided to with drawl his request....So the motion as stated above was never heard.

The Los Angeles County Fair, America's largest county fair in size and attendees, was established in 1922....The fair has been held continuously on the same site ever since, except during World War II when the grounds were used as Japanese American internment assembly camp, US Army ordnance and desert-training base, and POW camp.....Today it is known as the Pomona Fairplex.

Pomona was in line to be the capital city of the once proposed state of Southern California in the 1920s. Perhaps the city was considered "the middle of Southern California" between Los Angeles and San Bernardino.....In the 1970's when the topic was again broached before voters, Pomona again was considered as the Capital of the Great State Of Southern California....But other cites, such as Riverside and San Bernardino, Montebello and Alhambra also vied for the capital title....But once again, the topic faded into the mists.

Here is one thing Pomona would rather forget....In 1999 Pomona ranked third for the highest murder rate in California behind Compton, California and Richmond......Nationally, Pomona ranked 25th in the nation for Murder. By 2006, however, Pomona had reduced its crime rate from this high.

USA Today wrote a news article about Pomona in 2002.....The article stated that "Older suburbs" have become associated with intruding urban blight. The Pomona City Council defended the City......The City Council stated that the article was "offensive." The references on crime, drugs, gangs, racial issues, and poverty rates in the article are "untrue," as defended by residents, and based more on stereotypes than the actual 2000 census data on Pomona, which shows otherwise.....Pomona is described by residents as a generally safe and diverse middle-class city.....Well they do have Genisha Hills a high class area to live, but right below the Court Complex on Mission and Garey, the area is home to several gangs of all cultures.

In the 2006 comedy Grandma's Boy, an American stoner film produced by Adam Sandler's production company Happy Madison, Peter Dante's permanently-stoned character decides to buy a lion in order to protect his stash of marijuana......In one scene, Dante can be seen smoking weed with an African tribesman, Dr. Shakalu, in his basement.....When the main character, played by Allen Covert, asks Dante about the nature of his relationship with Dr. Shakalu, Dante indicates that he met the doctor at a cockfight in Pomona.....Mexican, and Asians are known to hold weekend Cockfights in hidden basements and empty Garages or other buildings, so this Myth is more than real.

In the Simpsons TV series, the 'Treehouse of Horror XVI,' during the introductory scene, during the Springfield Isoptopes's game Pomona was used in a parody of 'The OC'.....A poster background depicting the word Pomona in a 'The OC' template.....The announcer prompts Fox's newest endeavor 'Pomona' "it's even hotter away from the beach."

The film INLAND EMPIRE contains a monologue in which two homeless women discuss people they know in Pomona and whether or not you can get there from Los Angeles by bus.....In realty, you can get to Pomona via car on two main freeways, the 10 and the 60, Metro Link, Amtrak Bus, and regular bus service.....A new Metro Link line coming in from san Dimas and La Vern will provide a station on Foothill and Garey Ave.

Gary Hall, the Ghostpainter.