California

California is the most populous and third-largest state in the United States of America. Frank Zappa lived at 7885 Woodrow Wilson Drive in Los Angeles.

References to California in Zappa's music

• Memories Of El Monte: Refers to the town El Monte.
• Freak Out! Hot Spots.
• Dog Breath: "Going to El Monte Legion Stadium"
• If We'd All Been Living In California...: "If we'd all been in California I'd would 've been different."
• The Orange County Lumber Truck
• Camarillo Brillo: "I mean her Mendocino bean-o", refers to Mendocino, a town in California.
• Uncle Remus: "I'll take a drive to Beverly Hills"
• Son Of Orange County
• Flakes: "California's got the most of them (...) swear to God they got the most/of every business on the coast."

For specific references to Los Angeles cities and other locations: see also

• Cucamonga
• Downey
• Fresno
• Glendale
• Hollywood
• Hollywood Boulevard
• Irwindale
• KSAN, San Francisco
• Lancaster
• Laurel Canyon
• Los Angeles
• Mojave Desert
• Monterey
• Orange County
• Palmdale
• Palo Alto
• The Pit (restaurant in Upland, California)
• Playa del Rey
• Reseda
• San Bernardino
• San Diego
• San Fernando Valley
• San Francisco
• San Joaquin Valley
• Santa Monica
• Santa Monica Boulevard
• San Quentin
• Sunset Boulevard

People born in locations in California not mentioned elsewhere on this site

• Charles Amirkhanian (born in Fresno)
• Bobby Beausoleil (born in Santa Barbara)
• Melvin Belli (born in Sonora)
• George Duke (born in San Rafael)
• Christine Frka (born in San Pedro)
• Henry Kaiser (born in Oakland)
• Richard Nixon (born in Yorba Linda)
• Mark Spitz (born in Modesto)
• Stanford Marching Band
• Todd Yvega (born in San Luis Obispo)