(Note: Washington State is also known as the "Evergreen State. To complete the suites, electric green marble water fountains are placed in the center as the focal point of the rooms. The term is used as a metaphor by the character Elaine Ross, describing Sydney as "the Emerald City of Oz", where people go expecting their dreams to be fulfilled, only to end up with superficial substitutes and broken dreams. The authentic and elaborate buildings are of well kept houses, apartments, shops, beauty parlors, markets, restaurants, libraries, workshops, toy stores, theaters, dazzling jeweled palaces, plazas, pools, and hundreds of solid gold towers reaching over 100 feet high. To keep the glasses in place, the glasses consist of two 24 Karat gold bands on each side that reach all the way around to meet at the back of the wearer's head. This chamber room is where the staff of administrators and servants work, this is also where the spectacles are held. Interpreters have argued that money may been introduced into the city by the Wizard, but this is not in the text itself.[3]. Even the city tints the shade of the people's skin which appears to be greenish. The German fantasy novel by author Michael Ende, first published in 1979 titled: In the Oz books, Baum is richly descriptive when writing about the Emerald City's authentic architecture and breathtaking appearance from the inside out. A hundred years after Dorothy Gale came to Oz aka (Outer Zone), the Emerald City is now a city filled with technology, crime, sex and overall corruption. The Emerald City can be seen in the multiple Oz episodes. Baum based his Emerald City on this Edmund Dulac illustration. Yahoo is part of Verizon Media. These fountains spray green perfumed water high up into the air, so high in fact that the water is said to almost reach the emerald encrusted ceiling, all while filling the area with a refreshing fragrance as the water gracefully falls back into its marble basin. This door/vault leads straight into the city. These countless gems all glisten and dazzle in the sun ever so brightly, it could blind one if they were not careful. The City of Emeralds can be found at the very end of Oz's famous Yellow Brick Road. The city's residents are a group of aristocratic, stuck-up, shallow and sophisticated people who are fashion-forward and materialistic. Toto and Emerald City. This is because no one wished to ever venture west since the people of Oz were far too cautious to trespass on into the Wicked Witch of the West's turf. The road stops right at the emerald studded gates which is connected to the green marble wall that surrounds the entire city. David Williamson (whose brother-in-law wrote the Oz-inspired musical Oz) wrote a play in 1987 called Emerald City.

[2], In the first book, one scene of the Emerald City is of particular note in the development of Oz: Dorothy sees rows of shops, selling green articles of every variety, and a vendor of green lemonade, from whom children bought it with green pennies. The Soldier with the Green Whiskers escorts the party of Dorothy through the streets of Emerald City.

And the people of Oz, being as gullible as they were, believed him.

Return to Oz. Since he was a skilled illusionist, he appeared to his people as many different things such as a bird, an elephant, a cat, a beautiful fairy, a brownie, or even a ball of fire. There is one. Other such roads featured in other works: one from Gillikin Country in The Marvelous Land of Oz, and a second one from Munchkin Land in The Patchwork Girl of Oz.

The White City of Chicago was originally envisioned to be like "Luna Park" and "Dreamland ", both state of the art American amusement parks built to entertain the general public in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many oil paintings of Oz's history hang upon the walls and attractive marble statues stand at nearly every corner. Who is the female model in Jazzy B's Song Jine mayra dil Luteya?