Marilyn Monroe – Miss California Artichoke Queen

Bizarre, Featured — By BB Admin on February 8, 2011 1:36 am

Castroville, California has a genus Cynara claim to fame – the artichoke. Every year in mid-May, Castroville celebrates by throwing an Artichoke Festival Parade. How do we know about this? It so happens that in 1947, one Marilyn Monroe was crowned “Miss California Artichoke Queen.” And a legend was born.