Ms. Jackson 's inadvertent success in luring visitors to California may have given way to the mythmaking of '' Baywatch '' and '' The O.C . '' But when the Los Angeles freeway system was planned in the 1950 's , two of its branches were initially named Alessandro and Ramona , and , writes Ms. DeLyser , '' as if in tribute to the two lovers ' fictional tragedy , on the landscape of Los Angeles , these two freeways never met . ''