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East Bay history podcast that gathers, shares & celebrate stories from Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond and other towns throughout Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.
In a small, bunker-like laboratory in the East Bay hills, Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin created some of the world’s most powerful psychedelic dr...
During the 1960s, America’s Cold War era monoculture was shattered by the arrival of birth control pills, civil rights protests, anti-war ri...
In February, America’s nuclear arms treaty with Russia expired, ushering in “a global rush for new weapons,” according to New York Times. Mu...
The USS Hornet fought in some of the biggest naval battles in world history, picked up astronauts returning from the first moon landing, and...
On December 21st, 2025, the Bay Area lost one of its oldest and most distinguished residents: The legendary Betty Reid Soskin passed away at...
Historic houses offer a tangible connection to a city’s past, but maintaining them is difficult and expensive. Some of Oakland’s most unique...
If you were born after 1990, it might be easy to think that the world has always had wheelchair ramps, closed captions, and bathroom stalls...
Everyone has opinions on the Bay Area’s problems with housing, transit and public infrastructure, but Darrell Owens digs deep into the histo...
How did Jessica Mitford go from being an elite British debutante to fighting on the front lines of America’s early civil rights struggles? W...
In recent years, volunteer-led groups like Urban Compassion Project have struggled to deal with illegal dumping in Oakland. Despite removing...
In 1973, Chile’s democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende was toppled by a right-wing military coup led by General August...
Tobie Gene Levingston left behind his life as a Louisiana sharecropper in the mid-1950s to work at an Oakland metal foundry. Within a few ye...
There’s an area southeast of Lake Merritt that’s lined with abandoned buildings, boarded up storefronts, vacant lots, and decrepit warehouse...
From the gold rush to the tech boom, this region has been shaped by successive waves of business growth and decline. Every generation, new i...
On March 25, I interviewed Alexis Madrigal and Noni Session in front of a sold out crowd at Spire in West Oakland. Madrigal is the author of...
On the western outskirts of Crockett, on the bluffs overlooking the Carquinez strait, there’s a small unincorporated neighborhood called Val...
Anyone who has ever driven on 880 and noticed that there appears to be ancient brick walls closing in on you as you pass through Oakland’s J...
Since the dawn of the smartphone era, everybody has carried a camera with them at all times. If anything, there are too many photos and vide...
Despite being one of Oakland’s most iconic buildings, the history of the Fox Theater is filled with unsolved mysteries. In preparation for h...
About 20 years ago, Joey Santore went from illegally riding freight trains across the country to working as a “train man” for Union Pacific....
“Contrary to popular belief, most Native American people in the United States live in urban areas and not reservations.” Those words are fro...
Many communities in the East Bay’s flatlands are built in areas that were either wetlands or completely underwater less than two centuries a...
Although Oakland has one of the highest concentrations of lesbians in the country, the history—and impact—of this community is relatively un...
Idora Park was much more than just the largest amusement park that ever existed in Oakland. Developed by real estate moguls who also owned a...
Before the 1960s, coffee was a faceless commodity: hot brown beanwater with caffeine. Alfred Peet began a revolution in America’s coffee cul...
The 16th Street Station was built in 1912 to serve as the western depot for Southern Pacific’s transcontinental railroad. For millions of pe...
In 1949, a group of pacifists launched America’s first listener-supported radio station. Despite government repression, infighting, and coun...
With the weather warming up, now is the perfect time for a deep dive into Lake Merritt (not literally!). First, this episode explores the wi...
There’s a small stretch of Oakland’s shoreline unlike any place else. Nestled between the restaurants of Jack London Square and the modern a...
It would be easy to overlook the significance of Indian Rock and Mortar Rock, two relatively modest outcroppings located in the Berkeley Hil...
After spending more than three decades working in the underground economy, Titus Lee Barnes compiled his stunning stories of “the street lif...
Emeryville is a tiny town – less than 2 square miles. It’s nestled between Oakland and Berkeley, right at the foot of the Bay Bridge, and mo...
In 1970, Dr. Marcus Foster was hired as the first Black superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District. Widely recognized as one of t...
When Oakland’s most prominent graveyard celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2015, SF Gate honored the occasion with this description: “There...
19-year-old Laura Brown started the Oakland Feminist Women’s Health Center in 1972. In the early days, Laura would answer the clinic’s phone...
These days the East Bay’s waterfront is lined with parks, restored wetlands, marinas, and beaches, but for most of the twentieth century thi...
Long before BART or AC Transit, East Bay commuters relied on the Key System, a network of electric streetcars, for local travel and even to...
Up until the 1850s, the East Bay was home to hundreds of grizzlies and some of the tallest redwoods in the history of the planet. Within abo...
As a librarian at the Oakland History Center, Dorothy Lazard helped countless patrons research their connections to the past. In her new mem...
For the past eight years, Olivia Allen-Price has been solving local mysteries and debunking myths on her KQED podcast Bay Curious. Each week...
Did you know that downtown Oakland is built on ancient sand dunes? Or that the East Bay hills used to be honeycombed with quarries and mines...
In her new book “Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock,” Jenny Odell takes a tour of the Bay Area. She begins at the Port of Oakl...
Oakland’s largest city park is named after Joaquin Miller, an eccentric writer who lived on the property more than a century ago. After gain...
Delilah Beasley didn’t have much education or money, but when she saw that African Americans were being ignored by history books, she knew s...
Journalists Ali Winston and Darwin Bondgraham have been investigating the Oakland Police Department for more than a decade. Their coverage o...
Oakland’s Paramount Theater is now recognized as one of the grandest examples of Art Deco architecture still in existence, but this masterpi...
For the past year, I’ve been part of a team developing Rooted in Richmond, a free app that allows visitors to take a self-guided tour throug...
Elsie Robinson was a pioneer of women in media, an early advocate for equal rights, and at one point the highest-paid woman writer in the na...
After years of working a corporate job in downtown Oakland, Nenna Joiner woke up one morning with a dream: They wanted to be in the sex indu...
Miriam Klein Stahl came to the Bay Area in the late ‘80s seeking a community of queer punks that she’d read about in underground zines like...