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6 Episodes 2019 - 2019
Episode 1
Tue, Oct 15, 2019
At more than 4,500 acres, Griffith Park is one of the largest municipal parks in the United States. Its founder, the controversial and complicated Griffith J. Griffith, donated the land to the city as a public recreation ground for all the people-an ideal that has been challenged over the years. Featuring hiker and author Casey Schreiner, we visit a Mexican-era adobe within the park boundaries and ride the historic Merry-go-Round, where Griffith's ideal of equal access was challenged.
Episode 2
Tue, Oct 22, 2019
One of ten camps where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during WWII, California's Manzanar was photographed by outsiders Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams-and by incarceree Toyo Miyatake, who captured scenes from within.
Episode 3
Tue, Oct 29, 2019
Prohibition may have outlawed liquor, but that didn't mean the booze stopped flowing. How did Angelenos keep their glasses half full in these dry times? In this episode, we explore the myths of subterranean Los Angeles, crawl through prohibition-era tunnels, and visit some of the city's oldest speakeasies.
Episode 4
Tue, Nov 5, 2019
Although best known for designing the homes of celebrities like Lucille Ball and Frank Sinatra, the pioneering African-American architect Paul Revere Williams also contributed to some of the city's most recognizable civic structures-all while confronting racial barriers. In this episode, we visit LAX's iconic Theme Building, a Williams-designed church, and discuss the Pueblo del Rio public housing project.
Episode 5
Tue, Nov 12, 2019
As recently as a century ago, scientists doubted whether the universe extended beyond our own Milky Way-until astronomer Edwin Hubble, working with the world's most powerful telescope in the mountains high above Los Angeles, discovered just how vast our universe truly is. In this episode, we visit the underground vault of the Carnegie Observatories, where paradigm-shifting discoveries are annotated by hand on glass photographic slides; and the historic Mount Wilson observatory.
Episode 6
Tue, Nov 19, 2019
The 1965 Watts riots (also known as the Watts Rebellion or Uprising) left South Los Angeles in social and economic distress. In their aftermath, Operation Bootstrap, a non-profit community-based organization was formed, with hopes of facilitating change through community empowerment. This episode explores the lasting impact of one Operation Bootstrap initiative, the Shindana Toy Company, whose ethnically correct black dolls forever changed the American doll industry. We visit a doll collector, meet with former Operation Bootstrap organizers, and hear about the enduring legacy of Operation Bootstrap from a family of women who once made clothing for Shindana dolls. It's a story of community strength and economic revival-and one that, outside South L.A.'s black community, is barely known.