Forty years ago, Santa Paula was a bustling little bedroom community thriving around its fast-growing agriculture and oil industries. People lived there, worked there, dined there and shopped there. But in the mid-1980s, oil left town and mom-and-pop shops closed as residents started driving to big-box stores in Camarillo, Oxnard and Ventura. Today, the sleepy…
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