alifornia is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange," said comedian Fred Allen. Proving the tart-tongued comic right, the nation's 31st state shipped enough oranges to feed 300,000 visitors to Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. It also sent enough to construct this model of the Liberty Bell. Requiring more than 6,500 oranges to build, the 5-foot-high bell was more than a patriotic homage: The citrus structure also sent a message to the nation that the fragrant fruit was now so abundant that it had passed from rare luxury to household staple.