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Town
by Angelene Smith
The places we pass by every day, re-examined, one address at a time.
Episodes
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The Comedian
In 1955, the playground at Edison Elementary School, in Alameda, California, would have been a rollicking place. One of the moms just knew how to get a laugh, she always had the ladies rolling. She was the housewife from Ohio, the one with five kids. The one with the husband who wasn't so great.…
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The History of a House in Four Mishaps
We walk past dozens of houses, every day, and never realize that the people who have occupied them over the years were chock full of hopes, dreams, tragedies, dramas. That the people who occupy them, now and then, are each the center of their own human drama. This is true of every single house…
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The Sign Series: Flowers
The story of a Japanese American family, and a little something called vitreous marble (with a million flowers, a baby-judging contest, and some 1930s cops who learned yawara-jitsu on the off-chance they would stop beating people upside the head thrown in for good measure)
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That Time JFK Came to Town
People tend to remember that time John F. Kennedy paid a visit to Dallas in 1963. But that quick visit, the speeches he gave (and didn't give), the crowds, even the convertible shared with a state governor - all of that was par for the course for this particular president. He visited many towns…
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The Flu: Conclusion (Part 4 of 4)
Not all stories have happy endings. People die, people split up, kids don’t go to college after all, women’s social clubs come to a quiet end. The good news is that the flu pandemic ended, never to return…Oh wait. Nevermind. At least I met some nice people at a church. The conclusion of our...
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The Flu: The Doctor (Part 3 of 4)
We like our heroes to be straight out of the comic books: flawless, noble, and generally great. But sometimes really good things are accomplished by people who are kind of jerks. Alameda was lucky enough to have one such jerk, at just the right time. Meet Arthur Shirmer Hieronymus, aka Motorcycle...
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The Flu: A Sidenote about Masks (Part 2 of 4)
An extended sidenote episode about mask-wearing (and non-mask-wearing) in the Bay Area during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.
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The Flu: The Adelphian Club (Part 1 of 4)
A Hospital that Was Never Meant to be a Hospital. A women's clubhouse inadvertently becomes a hospital during the 1918 Spanish Flu.
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The Crash
A 1973 plane crash, at the former Tahoe Apartments, re-examined.
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Spite House
Spite House re-examined.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The places we pass by every day, re-examined, one address at a time.
HOSTED BY
Angelene Smith
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The places we pass by every day, re-examined, one address at a time.
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