Summary Huell Howser travels around California looking for interesting stories about the state's rich history, cultural diversity, landmarks, natural wonders, amazing people and points of interest, especially lesser known and out-of-the-way places. View more details

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California's Gold

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Huell Howser Breck Parkman Scott Gediman Leonard Knight

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jan 28, 2019

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

Filming locations : Quartzsite, Arizona, USA

Production companies : KCET Huell Howser Productions

Documentary

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jan 28, 2019

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

Filming locations : Quartzsite, Arizona, USA

Production companies : KCET Huell Howser Productions

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Huell Howser in California's Gold (1991)

Huell Howser and David Mas Masumoto in California's Gold (1991)

Huell Howser and Breck Parkman in California's Gold (1991)

Breck Parkman in California's Gold (1991)

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Dec 31, 1969

Living History

Experience a recreation of everyday life in a 19th century Russian community at Fort Ross State Historic Park; sail aboard the state's official tall ship, the Californian, and see for yourself the site where Sir Francis Drake left a plate of brass when he landed on our California shore.

Feb 02, 1991

Central Coast

Huell visits the world's first motel in San Luis Obispo; stops at Pozo's Saloon, a stagecoach stop; and chats with the last remaining citizen of Moy Mell, where a colony of people called Dunites lived in the sand dunes in the 1920s-40s.

Mar 02, 1991

L.A. to San Francisco Bay

Huell visits the Watts Towers, designated a national landmark, and its adjacent Arts Center. Then he travels to the "City by the Bay," to discover what lies behind their obsession with sourdough bread and to see how it is made.

Apr 06, 1991

Head for the Borders

Huell goes to the two ends of the state. He enjoys the Tulelake Horseradish Festival and National Wildlife Refuge near the Oregon border. Then he learns how the All-American Canal makes Imperial Valley farming possible and visits Calexico.

May 04, 1991

Santa Cruz

Huell discovers the colorful history of Santa Cruz's Beach Boardwalk, the last remaining oceanside amusement park on the West Coast. He meets the pioneers of surfing and the inventor of the wet suit. He enjoys salt water taffy at Marini's.

Jun 01, 1991

L.A. Adventures

Huell spends a couple of days exploring some of the many interesting places in Los Angeles including La Brea Tar Pits, the LAX Theme Building, the first structure built at UCLA, Grand Central Market, Little Tokyo, and The Music Center.

Jul 06, 1991

Preserving the Past

Huell tours the quaint little town of Locke, settled by Chinese on the Sacramento River Delta. Then he hears ancient Cahuilla Indian bird songs sung by tribe members, and participates in a threshing bee and antique tractor show in Vista.

Dec 31, 1969

Traditions

Huell explores three traditions that form part of the Golden State's history and folklore.

Dec 31, 1969

Trains

Huell celebrates train travel at Railfair '91, commemorating the 10th anniversary of California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, and at Railtown 1897 State Historic Park in Jamestown where he rides a steam train through Gold Country.

Dec 31, 1969

Ships

Huell meets an artisan in Trinidad Bay who transforms redwood logs into canoes; learns about a ship made of concrete docked at Seacliff Beach pier; and sails on the last remaining lightship that once marked San Francisco Bay's entrance.

Nov 02, 1991

Natural Wonders

Huell explores just a few of the state's many natural wonders at Redwood National Park, Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve, and Morro Rock.

Nov 30, 1991

Lost Sierra

Huell travels to a region in Sierra and Plumas Counties known as the Lost Sierra. In Downieville he meets the staff of The Mountain Messenger, the state's oldest weekly newspaper. Near Johnsville he learns some Gold Rush skiing history.

Feb 01, 1992

A Closer Look

Huell goes to the Algodones Dunes where portions of a wooden plank road, which stretched from Imperial County to Yuma, AZ, have been preserved. At Camp Lockett in Campo he attends a reunion of members of the last mounted unit in the Army.

Dec 31, 1969

Singing Cowboys

Huell meets famous western duo, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and hears them sing their trademark song. Then he meets Herb Jeffries who starred in black westerns in the 30s. Finally, he goes to the 17th Annual Black Cowboy Parade in Oakland.

Dec 31, 1969

A Tale of Two Cities

Huell goes to Allensworth, established in 1908 and a state historic park since 1976. It was California's only town founded, financed, and governed by African Americans. Then he tours old and new Kernville as residents share their memories.

Oct 06, 1992

Bodie

Huell explores one of the last remnants of the wild west. Bodie, once a thriving gold-mining town, is now a state historic park and regarded as one of the largest and best preserved examples of an authentic ghost town.

Dec 31, 1969

Blossom Trails

Huell travels to the Mennonite Quilt Center and other stops in the historic farming community of Reedley in Fresno County.

Dec 31, 1969

Buildings

Huell takes a look at some beloved buildings including the Bayliss Branch Library in Glenn County; the Old Schoolhouse in Twentynine Palms; and the Apple Pan diner in West Los Angeles.

Dec 31, 1969

Community Celebrations

Huell watches the Bok Kai Parade; marvels at the world's largest blossoming plant, the Sierra Madre Wisteria Vine; and celebrates the memory of Abraham Lincoln with a march to the Lincoln Memorial Shrine in Redlands.

Dec 31, 1969

Devil's Jaw

Huell journeys to Honda Point, the most dangerous spot on the state's coast, and finds out why it is called "Devil's Jaw." Then he goes to the jewel of the California missions, La Purisima Mission in Lompoc, now a State Historic Park.

Dec 31, 1969

Gold Country

Huell sees the first suspension bridge west of the Mississippi at the annual Bidwell Bar Day celebration at Lake Oroville. He visits The Red Church in Sonora and discovers an unusual source of pride at Columbia's Annual Poison Oak show.

Dec 31, 1969

Mono Lake

Huell devotes a full episode to one of America's oldest, strangest and most beautiful lakes. Located east of the Sierra Nevada, Mono Lake is famous for the curious formations of calcium carbonate known as tufa and for its unique ecosystem.

Dec 31, 1969

Nisei Parade and Little Tokyo

Join Huell as he takes a look at the history of this Japanese American community in downtown Los Angeles, including the annual Nisei Parade and all its festivities: traditional tea ceremony; Ikebana or flower arranging and bonsai exhibits, plus more.

Dec 31, 1969

Things That Crawl in the Night

Jan 02, 1993

Buried Treasure

Huell explores the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes on the central coast where the enormous set from the 1923 silent film "The Ten Commandments" is buried. Then he goes to Alleghany in Sierra County and descends 1500 feet underground in a gold mine.

Feb 06, 1993

Historic Horses

Huell goes to W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Center at Cal Poly Pomona where monthly horse shows have featured purebred Arabians for over 60 years. Then he relives the Old West on the California leg of the annual National Pony Express Re-Ride.

Mar 06, 1993

Islands

Huell watches the Annual Catalina Ski Race, a 40-year old competition where skiers race in excess of 60 mph from Long Beach to Catalina Island and back. He then visits the little-known San Nicolas Island, a serene haven for wildlife.

Dec 31, 1969

Joshua Tree

Huell goes to Joshua Tree National Monument to learn about the remarkable plant that gives the park its name and which symbolizes the Mojave Desert. He also gets a tour from Willis Keys of the ranch where he grew up that's now in the park.

Dec 31, 1969

Mariachi

Huell listens to the magic of mariachi music and follows its origins from Jalisco, Mexico to present-day sounds of world-renowned Los Camperos de Nati Cano, student mariachis at Garfield High in East L.A., and mariachis on Olvera Street.

Dec 31, 1969

Golden Gate Bridge

Huell gets the full Golden Gate Bridge experience by going across, under, above, inside and on top of it. He learns its construction history from two original crew members and rare footage and then meets the current daily maintenance crew.

Dec 31, 1969

World War II

Huell explores some obscure World War II history. The world's largest floating crane was seized from Germany at the war's end and moved to Long Beach Naval Shipyard. A Japanese submarine shelled the Ellwood Oil Field near Goleta in 1942.

Oct 02, 1993

Amboy

Huell takes a trip through the Mojave Desert to see some its many unknown destinations, including historic homesteads, immense sand dunes, an extinct volcano, an old train depot, and the tiny town of Amboy on old Route 66.

Dec 31, 1969

Angel Island

Huell tours the largest island in San Francisco Bay which is a heavenly sight to behold with its profusion of flora and fauna. Angel Island also has a varied military history, including the detention of Chinese immigrants from 1910-1940.

Dec 31, 1969

Hard to Get To

Join Huell on a unique adventure to two of California's rarely seen natural wonders: the Bristlecone Pine, the oldest, continuously living thing on this planet found in the White Mountains of the Eastern Sierra, and magnificent Le Conte Falls deep in the rocky and steep terrain of Yosemite National Park.

Dec 31, 1969

Our State's Front Yard

Huell visits the grounds of Capitol Park in Sacramento, California's official front and backyard and finds azaleas, huckleberry, 100-year-old cedar trees and a Memorial Grove of trees transplanted from the battlefields of the Civil War.

Dec 31, 1969

Terra Cotta

Step back in time with Huell to the olden days of making pottery the Gladding McBean way. The 118-year-old company in rural Lincoln, near Sacramento, is the nation's only remaining major manufacturer of terra cotta. From decorative to functional, McBean's terra cotta is acclaimed for its distinctive style which graces landmark buildings in big cities and small towns across our state.

Feb 05, 1994

Jack London

Huell explores Beauty Ranch, once the home of Jack London and now a State Historic Park in Sonoma Valley, also known as Valley of the Moon. It's where London wrote many books, including The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf.

Apr 02, 1994

Wings Over California

Huell learns about Catalina Island Pigeon Messenger Service which provided communication to the mainland in the 1890s. Then he visits the former Army Air Corps Condor Field, Twentynine Palms which trained glider pilots during World War II.

Apr 30, 1994

California's State Parks

Huell explores two interesting State Parks. At Providence Mountains State Recreation Area in the eastern Mojave Desert he sees the Mitchell Caverns Nature Reserve. Then it's Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park in the Sierra Nevada.

May 31, 1994

California Flowers

Huell takes a floral tour of California and visits Daffodil Hill in the Gold Country, Carlsbad Ranch and the California Poppy Reserve in Antelope Valley.

Jul 01, 1994

San Luis Obispo Train

Huell attends San Luis Obispo's centennial of the first steam train arrival in this isolated mid-coast town. Citizens recreate events exactly as they happened including a trip through historic tunnels and trestles in a period steam engine.

Aug 06, 1994

Santa Barbara Island

Huell goes to Santa Barbara Island, one of the eight Channel Islands, to learn its natural and human history from ranger Beth Fulsom the only current resident. Later he joins the Hyder family whose ancestors lived there from 1914 to 1923.

Huell traces the lives of two unique men who created two amazing underground sites: the Underground Gardens of Baldasare Forestiere in Fresno and Burro Schmidt's 2,000-foot-long tunnel through a mountain in the Mojave Desert.

Dec 31, 1969

Kelp

Huell explores one of the state's biggest, most beautiful, and least seen forests, the incredible kelp forests offshore. He travels from Monterey to San Diego to see how it grows, how it's harvested, and how it's used in many common foods.

Nov 05, 1994

On Stage

Huell explores two unique outdoor theaters: the Spreckles Organ in San Diego's Balboa Park and the Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach.

Nov 07, 1994

Water Under Pressure

Huell looks at two historic examples of water under pressure. The Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park is where miners used tremendous water cannons in search of gold. Old Faithful Geyser in Calistoga is one of only three in the world.

Huell looks at two ways of cooling off: first, in the amazing old "desert submarines" in Indio, then at an honest-to-goodness oasis near Palm Springs.

Feb 04, 1995

Huts and Hangars

Huell tours the largest wooden buildings in the world, the blimp hangars at Marine Corps Air Station Tustin. He then visits the Navy Seabee Museum in Port Hueneme and Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton to learn the history of Quonset huts.

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