California Historical Society’s Anthea Hartig
Anthea Hartig is the executive director of the California Historical Society. Before participating in an a panel on how people re-invent spaces, she talked partying in 1920s Berlin, optimistic Mondays, …
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The Darkness Beneath Huell Howser
Huell Howser has retired after nearly 30 years of producing and hosting programs for KCET, ending his career in Garbo-esque disappearance within almost ubiquitous presence. California’s Gold, California’s Green, Downtown, …
All Roads From Phoenix Lead to San Diego
Long before the Interstate 8 connected Arizona and San Diego, there was the Old Plank Road. The name is what it sounds like. Wooden planks provided cars with a way …
Tinseltown Cab Fare
“I hate drunks, they are so obnoxious. I should know, I used to be one …” –Mary Carol Reilly on the fundamentals of being a cabbie
She used to lie in …
Sylmar Made Me (Sort Of)
I don’t know when it started or who made up the story, but as kids growing up in the San Fernando Valley, we all lived in fear of the Big …
The Sacramento Blight Flight
The city of Sacramento, my adopted hometown, has always been at war with downtown blight. Do I exaggerate? It will not seem so to most Sacramentans, we who have arrived …
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