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East Bay Yesterday — 149 episodes
Dancing at the end of the world: Oakland Underground, part 2
“No one's trying to get famous”: Oakland Underground, part 1
“Berkeley was heaven” until it wasn’t: 1970s feminist explosion
From Jim Crow to Oscar Grant: Walter Riley shares lessons from a lifetime of organizing
“Fishing kept us out of trouble”: Memories of the Berkeley waterfront
“No casual experiments”: Inside a legendary psychedelics lab
Covering the counterculture: How a rebellious era shaped journalism
“I felt burning in my throat”: Preparing for nuclear war in Livermore
Welcome to "the floating city": How the Hornet dodged destruction
“That’s where my power came from”: Betty Reid Soskin's century of chaos and hope
How to save a house: Meet the people maintaining some of the Bay’s oldest homes
“He wanted people to take risks”: An underdog movement’s astonishing rise
“My neighborhood looks the same as it did 50 years ago”: What needs protection – and what needs to change?
“The ballroom communist”: How a radical aristocrat changed Oakland
“We let everybody throw it away”: How garbage worked before corporations took over
Fighting fascism can be fun: La Peña celebrates 50 years of creative struggle
“Respect the patch”: How Oakland’s oldest Black motorcycle club survived more than 60 years
“Not on the wealth corridor”: Why older neighborhoods get left behind
Industry makes and breaks the Bay Area: A crash course with Richard Walker
People of the Pacific Circuit: Oakland’s place in the global economy
“Crockett became Italy”: How a sugar factory created an immigrant enclave
“A town in the middle of a city”: Live from Jingletown with the Co-Founders crew
Punks on film: How Murray Bowles captured “the physical expression of drama”
A century of mysteries: Exploring the Fox Theater’s hazy history
Freight trains, plants, and a vanishing world: Joey Santore on industry and ecology
The missing chapter: Filling in the blanks of the Bay Area’s Native American history
Sea walls won’t save us: The past and future of the Bay’s shifting shorelines
“These stories still matter”: Bay Area Lesbian Archives starts a new chapter
“The mecca of pleasure seekers in California”: Exploring the rise of the amusement industry
“Those wonderful smells”: A Bay Area coffee history crash course
“Everybody wants it preserved”: Time is running out to save this Oakland landmark
"A crazy gamble": Celebrating 75 years of KPFA radio
“The jewel of Oakland”: Exploring Lake Merritt and Children’s Fairyland
“The neighborhood time forgot”: A strange sliver of waterfront
“Climbing was all I had”: A history of bouldering in the Berkeley Hills
“The streets have changed”: “Drug Lords of Oakland” author on the rise and fall of local kingpins
"Rotten City" no more: The history of a tiny town's transformation
“He was bringing people together”: Why was Dr. Marcus Foster murdered?
Unearthing “lives of the dead”: A tour of Oakland’s Mountain View Cemetery
Abortion, poetry, and stink-bombs: A different kind of “self-help” movement
Tales from the pit: Lessons from Berkeley’s landfill
"End of the line": How we lost the Key System
Long Lost Puzzle: What happened to the grizzly bears and old growth redwoods?
“You get to play a game of detective”: Longtime librarian Dorothy Lazard uncovers a whole new world
A curious conversation: Myth-busting and more with Olivia Allen-Price
From volcanoes to potholes: Excavating stories below the soil with Andrew Alden
“Time is not money”: Challenging clocks, nostalgia, and more with Jenny Odell
"Who was Joaquin Miller?": Assessing the legacy and land of a controversial icon
"We were being erased": The woman who saved California’s Black history
“Is reform possible?”: Investigating Oakland’s dysfunctional police department
Saved from the wrecking ball: The resurrection of Oakland’s Paramount Theater
Rooted in Richmond: Touring a "cultural gold mine"
What happened to “America’s most-read woman”? Rediscovering Elsie Robinson
“It’s okay to talk about sex toys”: Nenna Joiner digs deep into pleasures of the past
Nurses, Novelists, Politicians, and Punks: Miriam Klein Stahl’s “Hella Feminist” portraits
“What made Julia Morgan different?”: Exploring the early years of a superstar architect
“If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with”: When Ronald Reagan sent troops into Berkeley
“They’re scared of this book”: Oakland history under attack
“Oakland isn’t a bad place”: Ed Howard’s lifelong mission to uplift The Town
How to not pay rent: Long-term squatter Violet Thorns on “the art of becoming untouchable”
“They wouldn’t sell us rice”: A Filipina elder’s memories of survival and song
From playgrounds to the pros: The rise (and fall?) of Oakland as a sports mecca
“They were real macks”: How the Ward Brothers inspired a cult classic
“A new Pacific frontier”: The beginnings of Berkeley
"He stole the town": Oakland's founding father was a villain
“Black Art was her language”: Searching for the mother of a movement
"More than just the 1960s": Following the footsteps of rock & roll legends
“The porters were fed up”: C.L. Dellums and the rise of America’s first Black union
“Like a neon space carnival”: The trippy memories of a 90’s “Raver Girl”
“There’s no reason to be San Francisco”: The mixed legacy of Oakland’s ambition
“It was my whole universe”: William Gee Wong on growing up in Oakland’s Chinatown
“Dear Brown Eyes”: How a stash of old letters helped heal a family
“Who ordered the hit?” Investigating Mac Dre’s tragic murder
Hoover-Foster Stories, Vol. 2: “You become an art anthropologist”
Hoover-Foster Stories, Vol. 1: BBQ, books, and big banks
“We’re no longer afraid to be Black”: Before the Panthers, this group was the vanguard
“We’re uncovering a lost civilization”: A look at the New Deal’s local legacy
BART, bathhouses, and beyond: The friendship behind “The Cruising Diaries”
“We were here before California was a state”: Talking Latino history with Jose Rivera
“It was like a carnival”: The betrayal of Oakland’s 1946 General Strike
Goodbye, Telegraph Avenue: An audio time capsule of the past decade
“We’re not selling a neighborhood”: A new guidebook spotlights landmarks of conflict and resilience
“A home burned every 11 seconds”: A deadly tragedy that could happen again
“They insist on being here”: Oakland’s official bird refuses to be moved
Why Dorothea Lange still matters: Q&A with Oakland Museum's Drew Johnson
“How you organize that rage”: Challenging the police before Black Lives Matter
EBY Q&A Live: Opening up about oysters
A town within The Town: Oakland Army Base workers on its rise and fall
From war to love: My grandma remembers the Oakland Army Base
“We were being erased”: The woman who saved California’s Black history
EBY Q&A: The Bay and beyond with Chris Carlsson
EBY Q&A: How did it get so expensive to live here?
“OK, let’s go crazy”: How an unusual contest became the pride of Piedmont
Unfair housing: Why racism and real estate are so hard to untangle
EBY Q&A: Leland Stanford, the original tech bro
“It wasn’t part of my childhood”: Chicano Power and the rise of Día de los Muertos in Oakland
EBY Q&A live: A wild ride through BART history
EBY Q&A: Betty Reid Soskin's century of chaos and hope
EBY Q&A: 50 Years of free health care
Deep in Canyon, part 3: “A community of choice”
EBY Q&A: The earth-shattering history of a small East Bay town
EBY Q&A: Taking South Asian history to the streets
“I enjoyed every day”: A tribute to Ruth Beckford
EBY Q&A: How to do nothing in Oakland with Jenny Odell
“If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with”: When Ronald Reagan sent troops into Berkeley
EBY Q&A: Exploring Lake Merritt and Children’s Fairyland
Deep in Canyon, part 2: “It wasn’t utopia... it was real.”
Deep in Canyon, part 1: “Paradise with a dash of chaos”
Bonus episode: Q&A with “Evolutionary Blues” director Cheryl Fabio
“The Silent Generation was over”: Building Berkeley’s 1960s student movement
“Getting shot was one of the best things that happened”: Life after an Oakland assassination attempt
“Respect the patch”: How Oakland’s oldest Black motorcycle club survived nearly 60 years
“It’s in the DNA of hip-hop”: Tracing the local roots of a musical movement
“Get to know us first”: Longtime residents reflect on Oakland’s transformation
“This strange monument”: The story behind one of Oakland’s most prominent abandoned buildings
Long Lost Oakland, chapter 5: Overcoming racism, Lew Hing became king of Oakland’s canning industry
Long Lost Oakland, chapter 4: Balloons, booms & busts
Long Lost Oakland, chapter 3: How battles over sacred sites have revived Ohlone culture
Long Lost Oakland, chapter 2: “When the shipyard closed, my dad came home and cried”
“I’ll die if I let go”: After the earthquake, West Oakland came to the rescue
Long Lost Oakland, chapter 1: Grizzly bears & redwood trees
“They can’t believe he lived here”: Why John Muir settled down in the East Bay
Lenn Keller and the roots of the East Bay’s lesbian of color community
“You can’t replace that with photos”: Why so many buildings in Oakland have been picked up and moved
True shorties, vol. 1: Horse heads & bullet holes
“The freest time of my life”: Richard Pryor’s transformative East Bay experience
“The queen of the West Coast blues”: Sugar Pie DeSanto serves up sweet & spicy stories
“I believe in the elders”: Pendarvis Harshaw on gathering OG wisdom
“Monsters rising out of the mud”: From industrial wasteland to renegade art gallery
“What about the underdog?”: Dorothea Lange never stopped fighting for freedom
Before the A’s: The East Bay’s earliest baseball teams
“They knew it was a lie”: Exposing the cover-up behind Japanese-American mass incarceration
“Where are those ancestors now?”: How battles over sacred sites have revived Ohlone culture
Bruce Lee’s Oakland years: From a legendary fight to a new philosophy
America’s first sanctuary city: The missing chapter in a story of resistance
The East Bay punk explosion: How a scene rose from the ashes to create a music mecca
The rise and fall of the Oakland Ku Klux Klan
California’s only black whaling captain: William Shorey’s journey from sailor to celebrity
10,000 years of Oakland, 1 piece of land
“We were in liberation education”: Exploring the lost lessons of the Black Panthers’ school
From “one-hit wonder” to “legend”: 30 years later, a singer gets to re-live his dream
Goodbye to the “flying saucer”: Why many Oaklanders are taking the demolition of a diner personally
Before “1984” & “Hunger Games”: How the first modern dystopian novel was born in Oakland sweatshops
I grew up in Oakland’s oldest cemetery
Oakland’s “lost” Latino neighborhood
“Celeste Guap is not the first”: A history of sexual abuse, the OPD, and a refugee community
From garages to galleries in Uptown
Oakland's oldest soul food chef doesn't want to quit
Oakland's first "celebrity" librarian