In Popular Culture
The group America had a top 10 hit in 1972 with the song "Ventura Highway" which the group said was about their dreams of moving to Southern California while living in Nebraska.
The song "A Sorta Fairytale" by Tori Amos begins with the line "On my way up north, up on the Ventura". Later in the song, Amos writes of the "Things you said that day up on the 101."
Michael Jackson wrote the song Billie Jean while driving down the Ventura Freeway.
A dog, named Terry, who played Toto in the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz, was buried in 1945 somewhere beneath today's Ventura Freeway.
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