Movie palaces and theater pipe organs were well before my time, but the Warnors Theater is a proud survivor of the golden age of silent movies and vaudeville. Built in an architectural style known as Spanish Colonial Revival, the theater has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1978. This episode of California’s Gold originally aired June […]
I didn’t shoot any photos during last Sunday’s solar eclipse, although I was lucky to be able to catch a few glimpses of it from my backyard. I did have to wait patiently for a few holes in the cloud cover, but it was well worth it! I certainly remember the last solar eclipse that was visible in my area, […]
Last night I started thinking about the photos I shot in San Francisco back in August 2017 — especially the ones in the area near North Beach and the Coit Tower. I knew I had shared at least some of them, but it’s been quite awhile, so I thought it would be nice to take a look back. As it […]
This episode originally aired in January 1999 — but Cargill is still very much a presence in the San Francisco Bay Area, involved in not only salt production but also playing a part in efforts to transform industrial ponds into tidal wetlands as part of the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project. Many of us who have flown into San […]
I have heard many times about the State of Jefferson but never knew the origin story until I watched this 1-hour episode of Road Trip, originally aired February 7, 2008. In fact, I very recently learned that Jefferson is not the only ‘alternative’ state in California’s past: the Territory of Nataqua existed for a short time in northeastern California and […]
Although I have a bit of family history centering on the Yuba City area, I’ve never really explored that region; and I tend to forget that there was a lot of Gold Rush history along the Yuba River back in the 1850s. In fact, a long stretch along the river west of Timbuctoo looks very familiar to me because it […]
San Francisco, August 2023
Huell’s visit to the Wild Horse Sanctuary in Shingletown was quite a long time ago — the episode originally aired October 2, 2005. But this amazing refuge, established back in 1978, is still going strong today; and it’s open to the public for trail rides and other special events. Of course, being a nonprofit organization, they welcome any donations or […]
Spending the past week up in the mountains of Lassen County got me remembering some long-ago camping trips to similar spots a bit further south, near Frenchman Reservoir in Plumas County, back in the 1980s. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to find any photos from those trips, so instead I went digging into my photo album and found these prints, from […]