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California's Gold with Huell Howser

Mt. Wilson

Season 1 Episode 147

Founded in December 1904 by George Ellery Hale, Mount Wilson Observatory would quickly rise to dominate astronomy worldwide. The Observatory hosts several of the most technologically advanced facilities in the world and is home to the 100-inch Hooker telescope. Huell spends the day at this magnificent location that is not only historic, but plays an important role in scientific research.

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Old-Fashioned Harvest
27:37
Huell attends a lively recreation of an old-fashioned harvest near Modesto.
Under California
28:29
Join Huell and trace the lives of two men who created two of our state's amazing buried treasures.
Manzanar
28:51
Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten WWII Japanese American Internment Camps.
Nitt Witt Ridge
26:16
Huell Howser travels to the Central Coast in search of historic Nitt Witt Ridge.
Fire Lookout
27:44
Travel with Huell to Sequoia National Forest to visit historic Buck Rock Fire Lookout.
Erle Stanley Gardner
27:35
Huell strolls the grounds of the former home of Erle Stanley Gardner.
Join Huell as he explores one of America’s oldest, strangest and most beautiful lakes.
John Muir
27:50
Huell goes back in time and visits with John Muir at Yosemite National Park.
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