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California's Gold with Huell Howser
Weedpatch
Many "Okies" fled the Dust Bowl in their jalopies with signs reading "California or Bust." Out of options, they often ended up at the "Weedpatch camp," a federal labor and living camp for migrant workers in Kern County. Huell visits this historic camp, later immortalized in John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath," and talks with both the "Okies" who grew up there and the Latinos who now call it home.
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Huell travels to Central California to visit the 80 acre Masumoto Family Farm.

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Huell spends the day in Granite Bay California learning the ancient art of Hoshigaki.

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Huell travels back to a bygone era when he tours the Aztec Hotel and the Wigwam Motel.

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Huell explores the beauty and unexpected biodiversity of Death Valley.

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Join Huell in the centennial celebration of the arrival of the first steam train to SLO.