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Cape Mendocino Lighthouse

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Season 13 Episode 1302
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Huell Learns All About the Lunar Lander

Season 13 Episode 1303
25:15
Sturgeon's Mill

Sturgeon's Mill

Season 13 Episode 1304
27:25
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Season 13 Episode 1308
27:11
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California's Gold with Huell Howser

Songbird of Manzanar

Season 7 Episode 7003

During the years of the detainment in Manzanar War Relocation Center, one of ten camps at which Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were interned during World War II, music provided a rare solace for the internees. Huell visits with Mary Kageyama Nomura known as the "Songbird of Manzanar" who performed there as a teenager.

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Bunny Museum
25:39
Huell hops over to the Pasadena home museum of Candace Frazee and Steve Lubanski.
Whistling Champ
25:55
Huell visits with the Whistling Champ Carole Anne Kaufman at her salon.
Watch Convention
27:51
Huell attends the timely event (pun intended) of a watch and clock collectors convention.
Crookedest Street
25:40
Huell goes in search of the crookedest street in the world.
Music Video
26:29
Huell’s television first!!! Will it be a hit or will dogs be howling all over our viewing area?
Vincent Price Art Museum
28:31
Huell tours the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park.
California Restaurants
25:01
Huell visits two California restaurants that are great examples of “California’s Gold”.
Baseball Sod
27:11
Huell meets with West Coast Turf and learns all about the grass that they install at sports venues.
Sturgeon's Mill
27:25
Huell visits a lumbermill… or is it a working museum?
Lunar Landing
25:15
Huell travels to Edwards, California to visit Dryden Flight Research Center.
Oil Workers
28:20
Join Huell as he travels to the town of Taft to celebrate it’s 100 years as an incorporated city.
La Grange
28:18
Huell travels to the small town of La Grange to see an amazing part of our states history.
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