L.a. Meekly

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Sinopsis

L.A. Meekly is a monthly podcast on Los Angeles history put out by Daniel Zafran and Greg Gonzalez in an effort to battle the false idea that their city has none; and also as an excuse to eat donuts and talk into a microphone.

Episodios

  • Padre Issues (Native People and the Missions)

    01/12/2014 Duración: 01h10min

    In honor of what we now know as "Thanksgiving," we’ll be talking about the native people who lived in what we now know as "Los Angeles" and what happened to them once what we now know as "the Spanish" came to take their land and put them in what we now know as "the Missions." This description is now known as "over." We cover the pre-historic and Native days of the city (3:06) and the Spanish and mission days as well (28:25).

  • The Meekly-Go-Round Came Round

    11/11/2014 Duración: 01min

    Miss learning about LA's golden age of animation? Hear us delve even deeper into it on the This is Rad! podcast hosted by Kyle Clark and Matt Burnside. Take a listen to find out how.

  • Monsters and the Nerds That Love Them (Universal Movie Monsters)

    31/10/2014 Duración: 01h25min

    Ever wonder what goes thump in the night? A new episode of L.A. Meekly downloading. This month we celebrate Halloween with the story of the golden age of Universal monster movies and the tortured men that played them (2:51) in addition to the endearingly obsessive efforts of hometown hero Forrest J Ackerman to keep their memory alive (51:10). Bonus credit to anybody who can keep count of how many wives these people had.

  • The Podcast That Time Forgot (Forgotten Stories From LA's Past)

    30/09/2014 Duración: 01h22min

    Nazis? The plague? Union bombings? Aliens? Crimes against civil rights? What do all these have in common you ask? We forgot. Join us this month as we shine a light on some Los(t) Angeles history that most history books and Nazi sympathizers would rather not talk about. We cover the LA Times bombing (2:35), the plague outbreak of 1924 (17:46), Murphy Ranch (37:24), the Battle of LA (48:02) and the Japanese internment (59:42).

  • The Meekly-Go-Round Broke Down (Animation In Los Angeles)

    29/08/2014 Duración: 01h18min

    DRAW up a chair as we ILLUSTRATE to you folks the ANIMATED story of Los Angeles’ cartoon history. We’ll TRACE it’s roots all the way from when Walt Disney first set up shop in his uncle’s Los Feliz garage (7:18), through the COLORFUL cast of characters that populated Termite Terrace (23:10), Hanna/Barbera (53:56), Jay Ward (1:02:17) up to the SYNCHRONIZED mayhem of he cartoon renaissance of the ‘90s and beyond!…INKING DEPARTMENT!

  • There Will Be Mud (Extreme Weather)

    31/07/2014 Duración: 01h19min

    This month we talk about the extreme forms of weather Los Angeles has been subjected to throughout history. Join us as we watch the thermometer go from hot and dry to hot and wet to hot and on fire. We’ll also give you tips on what you can do to survive the city’s impending environmental doom. Hint: not much! We cover heatwaves (3:55), the Santa Ana winds (11:13), snow (21:39), tornadoes (25:06), smog (28:53), wildfires (42:14), droughts (51:26), floods (58:12) and the dreaded ARkStorm (1:11:52). (We apologize for the slight loss in audio quality this episode. Tom Bosley was being very uncooperative. (That will make sense shortly)

  • Under the *Venice* Boardwalk...*Venice* Boardwalk (Venice)

    01/07/2014 Duración: 01h26min

    You must be this tall to hear this extensive history of Venice of America. Join us as we take a gondola ride through the canals, join one of LA's oldest gangs and watch the rivalry of the Venice and Ocean Park piers as their built up and burned down and built up and then burned down again. And again. And again. We cover Abbott Kinney himself (3:05), the amusements (20:08), the canals (58:25), the oil days (1:06:08), the history of Oakwood (1:11:34) and the tragedies (1:17:19). (All heights welcome).

  • Episode 6: Episode 2-11 (Bank Robberies)

    31/05/2014 Duración: 01h26min

    Los Angeles was once the bank robbery capital of the world so put the money in the bag and put your headphones in as we give you a rundown on some of the cities most notorious holdups, heists and bandits from Stanley Mark Rifkin (8:35) to the Yankee Bandit (14:41) to the great Dunbar heist (41:20) to the North Hollywood shootout (49:51) and, from the old days, the legendary Tiburcio Vasquez (1:05:09).

  • City Bites: Back for Seconds?

    08/05/2014 Duración: 04min

    A poisonously vital part of the puzzle from one of last episode’s stories falls into place just a little too late so we present to you our very first bonus episode to fill in one of what promises to be many gaps.

  • City Bites (Original LA Dishes)

    30/04/2014 Duración: 59min

    On tonight's menu we have a sampler of our proudest native dishes: the French dip (2:45), the hot fudge sundae (12:39), the chili burger (21:26), the cheeseburger (31:36), the Orange Julius (39:02) and the Cobb salad (48:25). Strap on your bib and get ready for the story of six famous foods invented in LA.

  • Griffith vs. Getty (The Griffith Observatory and The Getty Center)

    31/03/2014 Duración: 51min

    The showdown you never knew you were waiting for.  The dueling histories of the Griffith Observatory and the Getty Center.

  • Broadway Theater District

    20/02/2014 Duración: 01h04min

    An historic look at the rise and fall of the country's greatest moving picture theater district: Broadway. After covering the history of the street we delve into a few theaters in particular the Million Dollar (21:12), the Orpheum (27:00) and the United Artists Theater (50:48).

  • Creepy Christmas/Haunted Hannukah (Haunted Stories)

    25/12/2013 Duración: 01h17min

    The first of our seasonally haunted episodes from LA's past covering the Sharon Tate murder (2:50), the Menendez Brothers (12:25), the Lincoln Heights Jail (29:23), Rudolph Valentino's ghost (40:30), Rancho Los Amigos (52:38) and the curse of Griffith Park (1:01:34).

  • Los Angeles Public Library

    02/12/2013 Duración: 01h04min

    A brief history of the Los Angeles Public Library system.

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