CSU East Bay History Lab Podcast: Recent Episodes
Mike Burton
This is the feed for History 405 at California State University East Bay. The first 7 episodes are of Mike Burton's 2013 California history podcast, The Bear Flag Libation.
This is the third of a four-part series on the history of often-forgotten, mafia-run gambling ships that were parked off the coast of Southern California in the 1920s and 30s. Originally recorded and released in 2014.
For this episode, we went down to Mission San Juan Capistrano and its famous neighbor, The Swallow's Inn Saloon, to look at Spanish colonization in California, how the Native population was forced to adapt, and how a small suburban town chooses to remember its morally complex legacy. And have drinks. We always have drinks. Originally recorded and released in 2014.
This is the second of a four-part series on the history of often-forgotten, mafia-run gambling ships that were parked off the coast of Southern California in the 1920s and 30s. Originally recorded and released in 2014.
This is the fourth of a four-part series on the history of often-forgotten, mafia-run gambling ships that were parked off the coast of Southern California in the 1920s and 30s. Originally recorded and released in 2015.
This is the first of a four-part series on the history of often-forgotten, mafia-run gambling ships that were parked off the coast of Southern California in the 1920s and 30s. In this episode, we step off the dock to check out how the prohibition on alcohol gave a kind of permission to a repressed Southland population to become scofflaws and primed the pump for the mob cast its long shadow over sunny Los Angeles. Originally recorded and released in 2014.
Oakland's famous Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon is heavy with history. So heavy, that it is in fact sinking. In the Bear Flag Libation's 2nd episode, learn about the bar where Jack London learned to read and became a teenage oyster pirate, but there is a lot more to this place than just being our favorite nativ(ist)-son's favorite watering hole. Originally recorded and released in 2013.
This is the introductory episode of the Bear Flag Libation, which discusses why taverns, saloons, and bars have always been more than just a place to drink alcohol for Americans, even before we were Americans. Originally recorded and released in 2013.