East Bay Yesterday

136 Episodes

1. “The ballroom communist”: How a radical aristocrat changed Oakland

   Published: 16/09/2025
2. “We let everybody throw it away”: How garbage worked before corporations took over

   Published: 13/08/2025
3. Fighting fascism can be fun: La Peña celebrates 50 years of creative struggle

   Published: 10/07/2025
4. “Respect the patch”: How Oakland’s oldest Black motorcycle club survived more than 60 years

   Published: 20/06/2025
5. “Not on the wealth corridor”: Why older neighborhoods get left behind

   Published: 20/05/2025
6. Industry makes and breaks the Bay Area: A crash course with Richard Walker

   Published: 24/04/2025
7. People of the Pacific Circuit: Oakland’s place in the global economy

   Published: 02/04/2025
8. “Crockett became Italy”: How a sugar factory created an immigrant enclave

   Published: 12/03/2025
9. “A town in the middle of a city”: Live from Jingletown with the Co-Founders crew

   Published: 20/02/2025
10. Punks on film: How Murray Bowles captured “the physical expression of drama”

    Published: 27/01/2025
11. A century of mysteries: Exploring the Fox Theater’s hazy history

    Published: 08/01/2025
12. Freight trains, plants, and a vanishing world: Joey Santore on industry and ecology

    Published: 10/12/2024
13. The missing chapter: Filling in the blanks of the Bay Area’s Native American history

    Published: 22/11/2024
14. Sea walls won’t save us: The past and future of the Bay’s shifting shorelines

    Published: 31/10/2024
15. “These stories still matter”: Bay Area Lesbian Archives starts a new chapter

    Published: 15/10/2024
16. “The mecca of pleasure seekers in California”: Exploring the rise of the amusement industry

    Published: 10/09/2024
17. “Those wonderful smells”: A Bay Area coffee history crash course

    Published: 08/08/2024
18. “Everybody wants it preserved”: Time is running out to save this Oakland landmark

    Published: 11/07/2024
19. "A crazy gamble": Celebrating 75 years of KPFA radio

    Published: 11/06/2024
20. “The jewel of Oakland”: Exploring Lake Merritt and Children’s Fairyland

    Published: 08/05/2024