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O J AI M A G A Z I N E | SPRING ‘24
Scenes from a simpler time story and photos by DAVID LABELLE
I had already worked for several California newspapers by 1975 when I decided to spend most of the year back home in the Ojai Valley. Ojai Valley News editor and publisher Fred Volz, as he often did when I was between newspapers, offered me a job as photographer, which I accepted before moving to Anchorage, Alaska, in 1976. It wasn’t uncommon in 1975 to see celebrities walking the streets of Ojai, but an unusual buzz surrounded the filming of an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man, starring the handsome and popular Lee Majors and his television fiancée, Lindsay Wagner, The Bionic Woman.
The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman