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Delorean Nights
by Delorean Nights Productions
Welcome to Delorean Nights. Tune in as we travel back in time and take a road trip across America. Explore the histories and stories surrounding the places we live. Learn about forgotten heroes and villains, visionary builders and planners, and other important figures that once roamed the streets of your favorite cities. Revisit legends, folklore, and pop culture that mold our identities. Experience history-shaking events and their social significance. Join us on a most excellent adventure, as we hop into the Delorean and gun it to 88mph!
Episodes
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The Time of Their Lives: American Culture and The Catskills
To escape the sweltering, smoggy summers of New York City, a group of first generation Americans sought reprieve in the Catskill Mountains of Upstate New York. As the summers rolled on, through good times and bad, the New York crowd continued to flock north. The old boarding houses evolved into...
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Riding The Synthwave
In our mid-season special, we're delving into the unique history of the electronic music genre of Synthwave, and its rise to mainstream popular culture. This twisting and turning tale includes 80’s horror movies, Ryan Gosling, ultra-violent video games, and mysterious French composers. It's a…
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Pride and Reckoning in Boston
In the early days of the National Basketball Association, the legendary Bill Russell put his team on his back and carried them to eleven championships in thirteen seasons. While constructing the cherished Boston Celtic dynasty, he also fought another battle for social progress in a city that...
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Greetings From the Garden State: Action Park and Other Weird Tales of New Jersey Lore
In the early 1980’s, an ambitious entrepreneur built the wildest water park the world had ever seen. Action Park was filled with rides that thrilled, scared, and even injured the guests. The rural getaway of Vernon, New Jersey was home to the America's Most Dangerous Water Park. Around the same...
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The Magicians That Saved Miami
At the dawn of the 1980's, the sun-kissed paradise of South Beach Miami was crumbling and overflowing with crime. It took a rag-tag group of artists, architecture fans, activists, and the coolest show in television history to turn the tide and show the world how magical Miami could be. This is…
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Brave Sons of Molly, Cowardly Kings of Coal
Secret societies, ancient orders, capitalist titans, and a world-renowned private detective agency wage war in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania.
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Hoosier Attucks
A small school in the heart of Indianapolis battles the forces of Jim Crow and the frenzy of basketball-crazed Indiana. Sound like the movie Hoosiers? It‘s an even more unlikely underdog story. Oscar Robertson stars for Naptown’s Dream Team, on tonight's episode, Hoosier Attucks.
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Three Kings of Smoketown
Pittsburgh was home to another great Black Renaissance. At the center of it was the vibrant neighborhood known as the Hill, or Smoketown. A local gangster and war vet, a crusading journalist, and a journeyman pitcher converge to elevate their community and change baseball forever, paving the way...
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The United States Versus John Delorean
*A mid-season special episode* Before the Delorean drove into immortality in 1985's classic Back to the Future, it was a dream of a visionary engineer. The story of its creation and the man behind it is worthy of its own movie. It's the perfect story to encapsulate America in the 1980's. This…
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Midcentury Memories: Timeless Tales of Palm Springs Glamour
In Palms Springs, the uniquely structured homes are almost as fascinating as the stars who owned them, and legendary parties they hosted. Frank Sinatra is our guide in a weaving story of kingmakers, royalty, and icons forging history under the desert sun.
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Windy City Swindle: Chicago and the Birth of the Big Con
Journey to the golden age of the confidence artist as legendary hustlers Titanic Thompson and The Yellow Kid plunder the rich and navigate the underworld of the rising metropolis of the Midwest. With Prohibition looming on the horizon, the battle for the soul of Chicago rages in City Hall under…
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Atomic Neon: How Las Vegas Illuminated the Desert Sky
Casinos race to build the biggest and brightest lights as Las Vegas comes of age. Meanwhile, the United States is locked in another race to build the biggest and deadliest bombs known to man. Grab an atomic cocktail and pull up a chair to watch how Vegas lit up the desert sky in Atomic Neon....
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Welcome to Delorean Nights
In our introductory episode we explore the impact the 1980’s has had on our culture. Before he drove the Delorean back in time, Michael J. Fox was in our homes as young Republican Alex P. Keaton. We’ll also explore Reagan’s battle to define the decades past and the power of weaponized nostalgia....
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Delorean Nights. Tune in as we travel back in time and take a road trip across America. Explore the histories and stories surrounding the places we live. Learn about forgotten heroes and villains, visionary builders and planners, and other important figures that once roamed the streets of your favorite cities. Revisit legends, folklore, and pop culture that mold our identities. Experience history-shaking events and their social significance. Join us on a most excellent adventure, as we hop into the Delorean and gun it to 88mph!
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Delorean Nights Productions
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Delorean Nights currently has 13 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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Welcome to Delorean Nights. Tune in as we travel back in time and take a road trip across America. Explore the histories and stories surrounding the places we live. Learn about forgotten heroes and villains, visionary builders and planners, and other important figures that once roamed the streets...
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