You Can't Eat the Sunshine
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You Can't Eat the Sunshine
You Can’t Eat the Sunshine is the podcast of Esotouric, the offbeat Los Angeles company that turns the notion of guided bus tours on its ear. Each week, join Kim Cooper and Richard Schave on their Southern California adventures, as they visit with fascinating characters for wide-ranging interviews t...
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YCES in Quarantine Episode #138: Embedded with Kemal Cilengir Documenting the Black Lives Matter Protests in Los Angeles
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YCES in Quarantine Episode #137: Judson Studios’ 123 Years of Innovation in Stained Glass
Download Podcast Episode! Welcome everyone, and thank you for listening to our podcast, You Can’t Eat The Sunshine, for the week of May 25th, 2020. We...

YCES in Quarantine Episode #136: The Larry Edmunds Bookshop & the (Nearly) Lost World of Hollywood Book & Memorabilia Dealers
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YCES in Quarantine Episode #135: Hollywood’s Historic Preservation Heroes & Villains
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YCES in Quarantine Episode #134: Last Stand on Koreatown’s Little New York Street with Carolyn Zanelli, Spencer Jones, Steven Luftman and Nathan Marsak
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YCES in Quarantine Episode #133: Stan’s Donuts & LACMA with Alison Martino, Rob Hollman and Steven Luftman
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Episode #132: Illuminating Los Angeles: Elmore Leonard & The Triforium
Download Podcast Episode! Join us this month as we visit with Gregg Sutter, who for 33 years was the researcher and assistant to writer Elmore Leonard...

Episode #131 : Happening at The Huntington: From Architectural Artifacts to Zen Buddhism
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Episode #130: Once Upon A Time At Times Mirror Square
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Episode #129: Preserving Dynastic Los Angeles County Landmarks in the 21st Century: The Chandlers’ Times Mirror Square & The Bixbys’ Rancho Los Cerritos
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Episode #128: Chronicling Mid-Century Modern Long Beach and Lomaland’s Lovely Relics
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Episode #127: Fighting For the Soul of Los Angeles
Download Podcast Episode! Join us this month as we talk with preservationist John Girodo about his struggles to preserve Hollywood’s historic built en...

Episode #126: From Show Caves to Palm Canyons: Treasures of Southern California’s Desert State Park System
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Episode #125: A Farewell to the Caravan Book Store & The Challenges Facing L.A.
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Episode #124: The Symbionese Liberation Army & A Vintage Arcadia Xmas
Download Podcast Episode! Join us this month as we talk with author Brad Schreiber about his book Revolution’s End: The Patty Hearst Kidnapping, Mind...

Episode #123: The Triforium + Topographic Map: Preserving Joseph Young’s Mid-Century Marvels in the Heart of Downtown Los Angeles
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Episode #122: Bunker Hill & The French Village: Two Lost Los Angeles Neighborhoods Taken By Eminent Domain
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Episode #121: Once Upon A Time in French-Speaking Los Angeles & Early Days of Angels Flight on Old Bunker Hill
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Episode #120: Boyle Heights Blossoming: Everything’s Different at Ray & Roy’s Market
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Episode #119: Secrets of Llano del Rio and Utopian Los Angeles
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Episode #118: Adventures in the Hollywood Preservation Trenches: Lytton Savings & Frank Sinatra’s Bungalow
Download Podcast Episode! Join us this month as we talk with preservationist Steve Luftman about his efforts to save Kurt Meyer’s Lytton Savings, a mi...

Episode #117: SeaView, a Mid-Century Time Modern Capsule on the Palos Verdes Peninsula
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Episode #116: Miracle Mile and a Mid-Century Master
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Episode #115: Hollywood Book Culture & Downtown’s Chimney Swifts
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Episode #114: Lures and Snares of Old Main Street
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Episode #113: Pereira in Peril
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Episode #112: Elysian Park Activists: Preserving Sacred Ground
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Episode #111: The Wild World of Wallace Berman
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Episode #110: El Pueblo to ELA
Listen to Episode #110! Download Podcast Episode! Join us this week as we talk with Jean Bruce Poole, historic museum director of El Pueblo from 1977-...

Episode #109: Palos Verdes Modern and Pasadena Retro: Documenting Two Remarkable American Design Eras
Listen to Episode #109! Download Podcast Episode! Join us this week as we talk with Roger E. “Waldo” Kislingbury, Pasadena impresario and Old West afi...

Episode #108: The Homeless and the Loft Dwellers: Public Policy Approaches to Housing in Downtown L.A.’s Arts District and Beyond
Join us this week as we talk with Patricia Diefenderfer, Senior City Planner with the City of Los Angeles, about the new HI Ordinance (Hybrid Industri...

Episode #107: Clever Gifts and Nihilist Olympics: Two Unique Slices of L.A. Life
Join us this week as we talk with 99-year-old Margaret Freed about her adventures running the legendary gift shop at Barlow Respiratory Hospital in El...

Episode #106: Recreation and Restoration in the San Gabriel Valley
Join us this week as we talk with Brian Kite, managing partner at SRK Architects, about his 1994 restoration of the Spanish Colonial Revival masterpie...

Episode #105: A Master Architect in Los Angeles: Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue’s Central Library and Caltech Campus
Join us this week as we talk with Romy Wyllie, co-founder and director of the Caltech Architectural Tour Service (CATS), and with docent Kenon Breazea...

Episode #104: A Day in the Life of Union Station / Harvey’s Broiler Reborn
Join us this week as we talk with George Redfox, president of the Downey Conservancy, about the white-knuckle preservation saga of Downey’s legendary...

Episode #103: The Stories She Could Tell: Skid Row 2015 / Go-Go Club 1966
Join us this week as we talk with Joan Jobe Smith about her new memoir, Tales of an Ancient Go-Go Girl, and about bikers, bars, Charles Bukowski, and...

Episode #102: Strange Stones and Frizzled Flowers
Join us this week as we talk with Ansley Davies, Associate Curator for the Los Angeles County Department of Parks \& Recreation about the otherworldly...

Episode #101: Renovation & Renewal in Skid Row’s Affordable House Stock
Join us this week as we talk with architect Wade Killefer, partner at Killifer Flammang, about the firm’s recent renovation of the 19th century Pershi...

Episode #99: From the Desert to Art Deco
Join us this week as we talk with realtor Jack Nendel, President of Friends of The Historic Lafayette, about that former hotel in downtown Long Beach....

Episode #100: Arches & Aqueducts
Join us this week as we talk with Downey historian George Redfox about one of his city’s gems, the oldest surviving “golden arches” style McDonald’s d...