East Bay Yesterday

East Bay Yesterday

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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.

Recent Episodes

  • “The neighborhood time forgot”: A strange sliver of waterfront

    2 weeks ago
  • “Climbing was all I had”: A history of bouldering in the Berkeley Hills

    1 month ago
  • “The streets have changed”: “Drug Lords of Oakland” author on the rise and fall of local kingpins

    2 months ago
  • "Rotten City" no more: The history of a tiny town's transformation

    3 months ago
  • “He was bringing people together”: Why was Dr. Marcus Foster murdered?

    5 months ago
  • Unearthing “lives of the dead”: A tour of Oakland’s Mountain View Cemetery

    6 months ago
  • Abortion, poetry, and stink-bombs: A different kind of “self-help” movement

    6 months ago
  • Tales from the pit: Lessons from Berkeley’s landfill

    7 months ago
  • "End of the line": How we lost the Key System

    9 months ago
  • Long Lost Puzzle: What happened to the grizzly bears and old growth redwoods?

    10 months ago