GOLD COAST
We all know about official state birds, state trees, state flowers, and the like. There are even official state dances (spoiler alert: 25 of them are square dancing), and thirteen states have even gone so far as to nominate official state dinosaurs (shoutout to Hypsibema missouriensis!). But thus far, California is the only US state to have nominated an official state element. And it’s all down to Judy Garland. According to the memoirs of George Cukor, who directed Garland in