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As Baum developed the series, the Emerald City took on the physical attributes of Coronado and the social milieu of hotel living.
Posted May 15, 2003
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La Jolla also impressed Baum, and two of his non-Oz books are set there, The Sea Fairies and Sky Island. A third, The Scarecrow of Oz, is a hybrid. “It begins in La Jolla.