East Bay Yesterday

136 Episodes

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

   Published: 9/16/2025
2. “We let everybody throw it away”: How garbage worked before corporations took over

   Published: 8/13/2025
3. Fighting fascism can be fun: La Peña celebrates 50 years of creative struggle

   Published: 7/10/2025
4. “Respect the patch”: How Oakland’s oldest Black motorcycle club survived more than 60 years

   Published: 6/20/2025
5. “Not on the wealth corridor”: Why older neighborhoods get left behind

   Published: 5/20/2025
6. Industry makes and breaks the Bay Area: A crash course with Richard Walker

   Published: 4/24/2025
7. People of the Pacific Circuit: Oakland’s place in the global economy

   Published: 4/2/2025
8. “Crockett became Italy”: How a sugar factory created an immigrant enclave

   Published: 3/12/2025
9. “A town in the middle of a city”: Live from Jingletown with the Co-Founders crew

   Published: 2/20/2025
10. Punks on film: How Murray Bowles captured “the physical expression of drama”

    Published: 1/27/2025
11. A century of mysteries: Exploring the Fox Theater’s hazy history

    Published: 1/8/2025
12. Freight trains, plants, and a vanishing world: Joey Santore on industry and ecology

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

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

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

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

    Published: 9/10/2024
17. “Those wonderful smells”: A Bay Area coffee history crash course

    Published: 8/8/2024
18. “Everybody wants it preserved”: Time is running out to save this Oakland landmark

    Published: 7/11/2024
19. "A crazy gamble": Celebrating 75 years of KPFA radio

    Published: 6/11/2024
20. “The jewel of Oakland”: Exploring Lake Merritt and Children’s Fairyland

    Published: 5/8/2024