HOME: Stories From L.A.

Goodbye (for now) Nov 27, 2017

I started this podcast in the fall of 2015 with a notion to tell stories of the many ways people think about home. For 27 episodes, that’s what I’ve done. I don’t think that going in I ever conceived HOME as a project that would go on in perpetuity, and now, in the fall of 2017, I’m finding that it’s reached the end of its natural lifespan. So I’m putting the show on an indefinite hiatus.

Producing this show has been one of the best and happiest experiences of my working life. I’ve learned so much about the world of podcasting, where there’s such excellent work being done by independent producers of all kinds, and about the place where since 1990, I’ve made my home. However you came to the show — whether it was via my friends and partners at Boing Boing, particularly Mark Frauenfelder, or through the flattering press the show received in LA Magazine, The Atlantic, The Christian Science Monitor and The NY Times — however you got here, I’m grateful that you did. I’m deeply appreciative for the early support from friends in the podcast community, like Devon Taylor, Harry Duran and Dan Lizette, and for the advice I’ve received from podcasters I admire, like Nate DiMeo of The Memory Palace. And to the people who’ve let me stick a mic in their faces and tell a version of their stories — my thanks as well.

One more thing.

Podcasting has enjoyed explosive growth over the two years I’ve done this show. It isn’t going anywhere. And neither am I. I have ideas for a couple of new series and I’m planning to bring at least one of them to you in 2018. They’re sort of like HOME, but also sort of not. I hope you’ll keep an eye peeled on the Facebook page or the Twitter feed, or you can follow my personal account at Twitter and I’ll keep you updated there.

Thanks for your support, thanks for listening, and I’ll see you with a new show in the new year.

“Jackie” and “Ah Clouds” are by the generous and talented Chad Crouch, a/k/a Podington Bear, whose music has been a big part of HOME.

**Episode 26: Going Tiny** Aug 18, 2017
HGTV and glossy magazines have sparked a boomlet of interest in tiny homes, but they’ve also made them look fun, cute and easy. The realities of a tiny lifestyle can be more daunting. Municipalities often don’t know what to make of tiny houses, and living in one legally is, in many places, challenging. There’s a lack of infrastructure for people who want to build them. And although they’re in many ways an imaginative solution to some of the most vexing urban housing issues, they don’t yet have a high profile in cities. Is there a place for tiny homes in Los Angeles? One woman thinks so, and has founded a collective of like-minded people to make it happen.

Learn more about LATCH Collective here, here and here.

Music:

“Animal Fair,” by Trevor Thornton

“Vinyl Baile,” by Podington Bear

“Lleb,” by Podington Bear

“Proliferate,” by Podington Bear

*Top: Photo by Ben Chun: Creative Commons*

*Photo of Tessa Baker courtesy of LATCH Collective*

**Episode 25: Lost Heroes and Miniature Histories** Aug 02, 2017

“The best historians in L.A. are storytellers. They’re gangsters in east L.A., they’re ex-cons, they’re guys who worked in their garage their whole life, they’re guys who’ve worked at one business for forty years, people who’ve lived on one street for forty years… “

“All Night Menu” started with a question: What is a well-known photograph of William Faulkner *not* telling us about his time in Hollywood? Since then writer Sam Sweet has spent four years prowling LA for its most closely-held stories. The result is a lovingly-produced, meticulously-researched and gorgeously-written three volumes of the city’s secret history.

*Top: Photo of the Maravilla handball court by Sam Sweet. Read Sam’s remarkable story on the Maravilla court in its entirety here.*

Music:

“Tangle,” by Blue Dot Sessions

“Sprout,” by Podington Bear

“All The Ways,” by Podington Bear

“Morning Mist,” by Podington Bear

“Peas Corps,” by Podington Bear

“Prelude No. 2,” by Chris Zabriskie

“Life In A Moment,” by Scott Holmes

*Audio assistance for the episode was provided by Sameer Sengupta.*

*Summer 1942: William Faulkner at the Highland Hotel, 1922 Highland*

Thanks to Sam Sweet, whose non-fiction novel “Hadley Lee Lightcap” will be published in September by All Night Menu Books. You can order the three volumes of “All Night Menu” published so far direct from Sam, or if you’re in Los Angeles, find them at Skylight Books and South Willard.

**Episode 24: Life, Death, Ego and Eternity** Jul 19, 2017
The original Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in the hills above Glendale, may be best known outside California for inspiring the sledgehammer satire of the 1965 cult comedy “The Loved One.” For tourists and curiosity-seekers, it’s the gonzo life’s work of Hubert Eaton, who memorialized himself as The Builder in the park’s every corner. For the families of the people interred there, though, it’s something more, and harder to joke away: A place of their own, green and quiet, and eternity-adjacent.

Take a video tour of Forest Lawn.

MUSIC:

“Prelude No. 20,” by Chris Zabriskie

“Locked Up,” by Scott Holmes

“Pick Up The Tempo,” by Podington Bear

“Glass Slipper,” by Podington Bear

“Prelude No. 21,” by Chris Zabriskie

“Ascending Light,” by Scott Holmes

“Gentle Reminder,” by Blue Dot Sessions

“Cylinder Six,” by Chris Zabriskie

The Builder

*Thanks to Adam Papagan, Adrian Glick Kudler (whose excellent story “Los Angeles Is Killing Us” is here) and Elizabeth Harper.*

**Episode 23: The Last House On Mulholland** Jul 05, 2017
How will we live in 20 years? Or 50? Or 100? A one-of-a-kind, only-in-LA plot at the very end of Mulholland Highway inspired some of the world’s best designers to think hard about the home of the future, in Los Angeles and beyond.

MUSIC:

“One More Time,” by Quincy Jones

Theme from “The Jetsons”

“Hollywood Holiday,” by Frank Samuels

“On A Wing,” by Podington Bear

“Business Gateway,” by Scott Holmes

“Oui,” By Podington Bear

“Netherland,” by Podington Bear

“Cylinder Three,” by Chris Zabriskie

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*For more information about The Last House on Mulholland, visit the web site.*

*There’s more information about The Ambivalent House here, and about the Hollywood competition here.*

*Photo: Steve Alper at the Last House site, May 2017*

*Rendering of The Ambivalent House by Hirsuta: Jason Payne, Michael Zimmerman, Joseph Giampietro & Ryosuke Imaeda*

*Special thanks to Steve Alper, Jason Payne and Nick Graham.*

**Update: Season 5 starts July 5** Jun 30, 2017

Update: The Future of HOME Feb 25, 2017

Join me, won’t you, as I peel back the curtain on this podcast and kick around some thoughts about its future. (TL;DR: I’m slowing the production cycle a bit to make the project sustainable over the long haul. New season is coming this spring. Also, if you’re a social media wizard and would like to help me flack this thing, drop me a note. )

MUSIC:

“Tiptoe Through The Tubas,” by Sam Fonteyn
“Alien Village and Flute Solo,” by Podington Bear
“The Spy Set – Closing 2,” by R. Sharples
“Requiem For an Elevator,” by Steve Combs
“Jackie,” by Podington Bear

Photo: Cape Town, January 2017

Update: New Season Coming Dec 14, 2016

HOME is going on a between-seasons hiatus, but will return in the New Year. Sköl!

**Episode 22: Kodachrome, Pt. 2** Dec 02, 2016
Who were we? How did we live, and what did it look like? The vast archive of castoff slides captures, in vivid colors, images of the American family at midcentury. But the stories that go with the pictures are most often lost, and we’re left to create our own, and reflect on millions of conscious decisions to untie the knot of memory.

***(Click slides to embiggen)***

MUSIC by Podington Bear:

“Motivate”

“Poise”

“Wilt”

“Aria Area”

“Arp Arc”

“Gymnopedie 2”

*Thanks once again to Charles Phoenix.*

Episode 21: Kodachrome, Pt. 1 Nov 17, 2016

Color slides were once the state of the art in family photography — vibrant, immersive, ubiquitous. So ubiquitous, in fact, that millions, maybe billions of them survive. This week it’s a conversation with midcentury pop culture expert Charles Phoenix: What can we learn from the vast shadow world of orphaned slides about the way we used to live in our homes?

Music:

“Leaves In The Pool,” by Podington Bear
“Diamond Bossa Nova,” by Francesco de Masi
“Clog Dance,” by Dick Walter
“Spills,” by Blue Dot Sessions
“Kingbeat 9,” by Podington Bear

Thanks to Charles Phoenix, whose “Disneyland’ Tour of Downtown Los Angeles returns on November 27. Tickets are also on sale for his Retro Holiday Slide Show in Brea, CA December 17 and 18.

Read Richard Baguley’s essay on Kodachrome color slide film at Medium. There’s also this lovely video by Deborah Acosta at The New York Times.

Episode 20: Everything Must Go Nov 03, 2016

Some stories don’t end when you think they do. Some stories just pause. And then they sneak back around and whap you across the back of your unsuspecting head. So here’s one I didn’t expect to revisit, although maybe I should have: Part 2 of Episode 7, “Unmaking A Home.”

Music:

“Driftwood,” by Podington Bear
“Trailing Comma,” by Blue Dot Sessions
“Something In The Distance,” by Scott Holmes
“Empires,” by Scott Holmes
“Bless,” by Podington Bear
“Busy Life,” by King Palmer
“Hard Won,” by Podington Bear
“By Grace,” by Podington Bear

Special thanks to Ellen Barol, Peter Clark and Jennifer Cecil.

5-x-7-1 — **Episode 19: Almost Utopia** Oct 19, 2016
What happens to a utopia that never got off the ground? Bits and pieces of one, an experiment in postwar living for the masses, are hiding in plain sight in the hills above Sunset Boulevard. Architect and author Cory Buckner talks about Crestwood Hills, a Modernist vision for a cooperative future that never quite arrived.

MUSIC:

“Melange,” by Podington Bear

“Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive,” by Johnny Mercer

“Bargains Galore,” by Stuart/Crombie/Dennis Barry

“Solan,” by Podington Bear

“Pink Gradient,” by Podington Bear

*Thanks to Cory Buckner, whose excellent book on Crestwood Hills is available here.*

*Video: The Siegel family moves into their brand-new Crestwood Hills home in 1950.*

*Groundbreaking, October 1947 (Courtesy Cory Buckner)*

*Buckner House (formerly MHA site office): Photo by John Dooley*

ground-breaking2 — **Episode 19: Almost Utopia** Oct 19, 2016
What happens to a utopia that never got off the ground? Bits and pieces of one, an experiment in postwar living for the masses, are hiding in plain sight in the hills above Sunset Boulevard. Architect and author Cory Buckner talks about Crestwood Hills, a Modernist vision for a cooperative future that never quite arrived.

MUSIC:

“Melange,” by Podington Bear

“Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive,” by Johnny Mercer

“Bargains Galore,” by Stuart/Crombie/Dennis Barry

“Solan,” by Podington Bear

“Pink Gradient,” by Podington Bear

*Thanks to Cory Buckner, whose excellent book on Crestwood Hills is available here.*

*Video: The Siegel family moves into their brand-new Crestwood Hills home in 1950.*

*Groundbreaking, October 1947 (Courtesy Cory Buckner)*

*Buckner House (formerly MHA site office): Photo by John Dooley*

Episode 18: Cooking With Mihrette Aug 31, 2016

What happens when you bring a kid from the other side of the world into your home forever? How does it change what home means to her? And to you? This week it’s the story of one mom, the daughter she chose, and the way they keep Ethiopia alive in the home that’s now theirs.

PROGRAM NOTE: This is the last episode of Season 3. See you back here in October for Season 4. Subscribe to the newsletter for updates and between-seasons bonus content.

Can the Web series be far behind? Cook With Mihrette here.

Music by Podington Bear:

Episode 17: Dancers In The House Aug 17, 2016

A roving, shifting company of dance and performance artists is nudging its audiences to think about home differently — by bringing one-off, site-specific performances to houses, live-work spaces and tiny apartments all over the Los Angeles area. Meet homeLA.

Music by Podington Bear:

At top: Flora Wiegman, Swimming Laps, at the home of Chloë Flores and Tim Lefevre in Mount Washington. Performed by Flora Wiegman

Here’s a gallery of photographs from past homeLA performances.

All photos by Andrew Mandinach for homeLA.

For more information about the Rose Hills performance on September 24, visit homeLA.

Episode 16: TV Dreamland Aug 03, 2016

When TV producer Phil Savenick started collecting vintage TVs and TV memorabilia, he didn’t anticipate that he’d end up with what he now calls a “dreamland of televisions” in the living room of his West Los Angeles home — or that he’d end up helping the family of the man who invented TV heal some old wounds.

See more of Phil’s TV Dreamland here.

You can learn more about Philo T. Farnsworth here. I also recommend Jeff Kisseloff’s excellent oral history of the early days of television, “The Box.”

Music by Podington Bear:

Thanks to Phil Savenick and Janis Hirsch.

chairs — **Episode 15: Belushi, Bette and Beverly Hills** Jul 20, 2016
The process by which one place stops being home and another starts — it’s a mysterious thing. It happens, most often, when we’re not paying attention. And sometimes, as it did for comedy writer and transplanted East Coaster Janis Hirsch, it happens in stages. First she started to feel at home in Los Angeles; but it was only later, after a series of addresses and a run-in or two with Bette Davis, that she landed in the exact place that would be, finally, her home.

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Music:

“Domestic Fun (a),” by Ernest Tomlinson

“Prismatone,” by Podington Bear

“Wook,” by Podington Bear

“Star Prizes (a),” by Tony Kinsey

“Lena Sequence,” by Roberto Prgiado

“Jackie,” by Podington Bear

“Fashion on Parade,” by Ronald Hanmer

“Playmate,” by Podington Bear

*Thanks to Janis Hirsch and Larry Shulman.*

**Episode 14: Rose, Mercedes and The Days Of The Dead** Jul 06, 2016

Actress/writer/artist Rose Portillo lives in the house she was born into, in the Silver Lake section of Los Angeles. It’s the annual scene of her legendary Day Of the Dead parties, and it was the setting for her family’s story of ascension, assimilation and culture clash — as well as the long, wary dance of accommodation, spanning life and death, that Rose has performed with the formidable spirit of her grandmother, Mercedes Mendoza Portillo.

Music:

“Los Chucos Suaves,” by Lalo Guerrero Y Sus Cinco Lobos

“Pachuco Boogie,” by Cuartato Don Ramon Sr.

“Solido “Joaquín,” by Dacita & her Orchestra

“Ay Jalisco,” by Jorge Negrete

“Chicano Boogie,” by Cuartato De Ramon Martinez

“Chicas Patas Boogie,” by Lalo Guerrero Y Sus Cinco Lobos

“El Bracero Y La Pachuca,” by Dueto Taxco Con Mariachi Caporales Del Norte

“Los Blues,” by Don Tosti Y Su Trio

*Altar photo from Day Of The Dead 2009 (upper left) courtesy of CJ Gronner.*

*Thanks to Rose Portillo, Roger Bowers and Mark B. Perry. To learn more about Young Theaterworks, go here.*

Episode 13: A Pod To Call Your Own Jun 22, 2016

Not a hotel, not a dorm, not quite a hostel, open by design and communitarian in spirit — Los Angeles-based PodShare is something else. And, potentially, something bigger: An affordable way to foster community in a city that’s increasingly stratified by class. This week, to start Season 3, it’s the story of one young entrepreneur and her unstoppable enthusiasm for her big idea.

Music:

“Happy Wanderer” by Louis Prima
“Hey Bellboy” by Gloria Wood
“On A Wing” by Podington Bear
“Twinkle Toes” by Podington Bear

Photo by Jay Kantor, courtesy Elvina Beck/PodShare

Updates: New Season June 22, and Opening It Up To The Room Jun 13, 2016

Here’s an audio update on the upcoming season. In extra bonus content — and let me stress that this is 100% free of cost to you, the home audience — I beg for your help! (That is, if you’re a social media or business development ninja.)

Music:
“Frosted Glass,” by Podington Bear

**Episode 12: Home With A Side of Fries** Apr 09, 2016
It looks like a Hopper painting plunked incongruously down on a busy commercial street in West Los Angeles — The Apple Pan, home to freshly-baked pies and what hamburger aficionado George Motz says may be the best burger in America. But the affection Angelenos have for The Apple Pan only starts with the food. It’s an oasis, a rock, a spot out of time, essentially unchanged since the day it opened in 1947. It may not be the kind of place where everybody knows your name, but if you’ve been going there for a long time, as it seems like most of its customers have, it is the kind of place where the countermen most likely know your order. Warmth, familiarity, stability in a rapidly-changing landscape… aren’t these some of the things that make a place a home?

Music:

“Feather,” by Podington Bear

“Equazione,” by Gianni Ferrio

“Flute A La Carte,” from Capitol Complete Production Music

“Route 66,” by Bobby Troup

“Forecasting,” by Podington Bear

*Thanks to Sunny Sherman and Martha Gamble of The Apple Pan, 10801 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles.*

George Motz of Hamburger America visited The Apple Pan a couple of years ago for his Travel Channel series “Burger Land.” Here’s an excerpt. And what are the odds, I happened to be having lunch there that day. That’s me half-obscured by the register at 00:38, sitting (uncharacteristically) on Hector’s side.

*Here’s a piece I wrote for Forbes when the great Manhattan burger joint Prime Burger closed its doors in 2012.*

*This episode concludes HOME’s second season. We’ll be back in June with all-new stories; subscribe and you won’t miss a thing.*

Episode 11: The View From The Road Mar 23, 2016

The crowning paradox of the touring comic’s life may be this: You have to leave home to make a name, but without the grounding and security of home you may not have anything to say. This week, three experienced comedians on striking the tricky balance between the road and home.

Music:

“Sophistication,” from the Complete Capitol Production Music
“Track 2,” from “I Love You Alice B. Toklas” (original soundtrack)
“Rythn,” by Podington Bear
“Pretty Simple,” by Podington Bear

Thanks to Cathy Ladman, whose one-woman show, “Does This Show Make Me Look Fat?”, opens soon; Brad Upton, whose upcoming tour schedule is available here; and Jackie Kashian, who can be heard on The Dork Forest and The Jackie and Laurie Show.

**Episode 10: A Life At Sea, On Land** Mar 09, 2016
How far would you go to rescue the remains of a bygone world you’ve loved since you were a kid? Peter Knego went to Alang, India, and then did it again and again, to save what he could of the great ocean liners being scrapped there. But he didn’t just want to save the ships. He wanted to live in one. And to a remarkable degree he’s succeeded, filling his home in Oceanside, CA with a breathtaking array of maritime memorabilia.

This week: One man’s mission to recreate, in landlocked miniature, the great days of the oceangoing ships.

*Thanks to Peter Knego and Mark B. Perry. To learn more about Knego’s memorabilia business, visit midshipcentury.com.*

Music:

Theme from “The French Line” (1953)

“Back In The USSR,” by The Beatles

“Saver,” by Podington Bear

“Whiplash String Swell,” by Podington Bear

Excerpt from “Tosca,” by Renata Tebaldi

**Episode 9: A Home Away From Home** Feb 24, 2016
Suppose you wanted to design a home away from home. What would you put in? What would you leave out? What kind of seating would you have? (Soft? Hard? Low? High?) What kind of tables — big working slabs or intimate little two-tops?

A good “third place” may seem casually homey, but its design is the end result of a million tiny decisions. This week, it’s a conversation with Kambiz Hemati, who oversaw store design at Starbucks for two years and now owns Love Coffee Bar in Santa Monica, where he gets to think hard — and think small — about what makes a place feel like home.

MUSIC:

“Trader Ho Hey,” by Podington Bear

“Whistle Work,” by Podington Bear

“Song For A Pea,” by Podington Bear

*Thanks to Kambiz Hemati of Love Observed and Love Coffee Bar.*

photo-8 — **Episode 8: A Home, A Murder, A Mystery (or two)** Feb 10, 2016
Up in the manicured hills of Los Feliz, a neighborhood that boasts at least three famous murder houses, the one with the weirdest history may be the Perelson house… where, deep in the night of December 6, 1959, a husband and father of three lost his fragile grip and went terribly, shockingly crazy. But the story only starts there.

Why did Harold Perelson snap? What does it mean when, without warning, the safety of a family home is shattered from within? And how do you explain what’s happened to the house since?

*Read blogger Jen Clay’s account of a 2012 trip to the Perelson house here. That’s her photo to the right.*

*Thanks to Jeff Maysh, whose “The Murder House” is the definitive work of reporting on the Perelson case; Scott Michaels of Dearly Departed Tours; and Yolonda E. Lawrence.*

Special thanks again this week to the fantastically talented, prolific and generous Podington Bear, a/k/a Chad Crouch, whose work is an invaluable repository of music that’s free for non-commercial use.

MUSIC:

“Epiphany,” by Podington Bear

“Dark Matter,” by Podington Bear

“Strikes Again!” by Podington Bear

“Preservation,” by Podington Bear

“How Fortunate The Man With None,” by Dead Can Dance

“Corridor,” by Podington Bear

“Velcro,” by Podington Bear

“Got Spark,” by Pdington Bear

**Episode 7: Unmaking a Home** Jan 27, 2016
When an elderly parent dies after a long life of lovingly acquiring things, she leaves behind more than memories for her kids. She leaves something much more tangible: The things. So many, *many* things. Is it things that make a home?

This week, to kick off Season 2, it’s a story of life, death, memory, loss, Christmas, trash bags, and what it means to unmake a home.

One housekeeping note: With this episode, HOME joins such excellent shows as You Are Not So Smart, Futility Closet and Gweek on the Boing Boing Podcast Network. I’m delighted to be partnered with one of the smartest, liveliest names in online culture. bb

MUSIC:

“Plastic Glare,” by Podington Bear

French cafe music by David Lewis Luong

“Summertime Outing,” by Dick Walter

“Jack,” by Podington Bear

“Christmas,” by The Metro Strings

“Bated Breath,” by Podington Bear

“Cradle Song for A (Interstate B3),” by Max Richter

Update: Season 2 Dec 02, 2015

Season 2 of HOME comes your way in January. Subscribe today and new episodes will automagically fly through the aether to you more or less the very second they’re released. And if you get a moment between now and the start of the new season to tell your friends about the show, or even better, to rate and/or review it at the iTunes Store, why, there’ll be a fine fat goose under your Christmas tree!*

(Many thanks to the most excellent Podington Bear for much of the music used in Season 1, including “Vox Bubble Rumba,” heard in this audio update.)

*Not a binding promise of an actual goose

**Episode 6: Ghosts of The Carlotta** Nov 17, 2015

The venerable Villa Carlotta — home to show business A-listers in the Golden Age, and later to a generation of young actors, writers and musicians — sits, a hollowed-out shell, on Hollywood’s Franklin Avenue. It may or may not be about to undergo a transformation into an upscale hotel. What happens to a community when it’s driven from the place where it’s made a home? One resident stubbornly hangs on, battling for the soul of a building that once buzzed with life and energy.

MUSIC:

“Home,” by Henry Hall and his Gleneagles Hotel Band

“Twine,” by Podington Bear

“It’s All Forgotten Now,” by Ray Noble and His Orchestra

“Tuesday’s Tune,” by Herschel Burke Gilbert

“Toccatta and Fugue in D Minor,” by Johann Sebastian Bach

“Zombie,” By Johnny Fever (Sam Fuller)

“Csm,” by Podington Bear

*Photos, top to bottom:*
Carlotta exterior 2008 *by Stinson Carter.*
Carlotta lobby 2015
Carlotta lobby 2014 by Stinson Carter
Carlotta courtyard 2014 by Stinson Carter
Carlotta courtyard 2015

*Thanks to Sylvie Shain (above).* *For more information on the campaign to save the Villa Carlotta, see its Facebook page.*

*Read Stinson Carter’s excellent piece about The Carlotta in Vanity Fair.*

Episode 5: Growing Up 818 Nov 04, 2015

There’s the San Fernando Valley, the one you can find on a map… and then there’s The Valley, the one that exists in the culture, whose notoriety far outstrips its size. How did that happen? How did it come to be that you can mention The Valley to people in Milwaukee or Toronto or Tokyo and they’ll know what you’re talking about? And what does it mean to call The Valley home? This week HOME looks at the tangled legacy of a place that managed to be both the iconic American suburb and an industrial powerhouse that cranked out everything from beer to cars, and moon rockets to The Brady Bunch.

For more on the history of the San Fernando Valley, visit the Valley Relics Museum.

MUSIC: