Ranked #1
Episode 2: In Their Room
Episode 2: In Their Room
On a warm May day in 2005 a crowd gathered near a freeway embankment in Hawthorne, CA and turned its gaze to a house tha... Read more
22 Sep 2015
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23mins
Ranked #2
Episode 3: One Man’s Town
Episode 3: One Man’s Town
This week it’s a story about Amboy, CA, a ghost town 30 miles from anywhere on the old Route 66, and the chicken magnate... Read more
7 Oct 2015
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16mins
Ranked #3
Episode 21: Kodachrome, Pt. 1
Episode 21: Kodachrome, Pt. 1
Color slides were once the state of the art in family photography — vibrant, immersive, ubiquitous. So ubiquitous, in fa... Read more
17 Nov 2016
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20mins
Ranked #4
Episode 4: A Monk in Venice
Episode 4: A Monk in Venice
Andy Puddicombe left college at 22 and spent a decade tramping the world before returning to the UK and landing, eventua... Read more
20 Oct 2015
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24mins
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Episode 19: Almost Utopia
Episode 19: Almost Utopia
What happens to a utopia that never got off the ground? Bits and pieces of one, an experiment in postwar living for the ... Read more
19 Oct 2016
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21mins
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Episode 15: Belushi, Bette and Beverly Hills
Episode 15: Belushi, Bette and Beverly Hills
The process by which one place stops being home and another starts — it’s a mysterious thing. It happens, most often, wh... Read more
20 Jul 2016
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20mins
Ranked #7
Episode 5: Growing Up 818
Episode 5: Growing Up 818
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 ... Read more
4 Nov 2015
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20mins
Ranked #8
Episode 8: A Home, A Murder, A Mystery (or two)
Episode 8: A Home, A Murder, A Mystery (or two)
Up in the manicured hills of Los Feliz, a neighborhood that boasts at least three famous murder houses, the one with the... Read more
10 Feb 2016
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20mins
Ranked #9
Episode 7: Unmaking a Home
Episode 7: Unmaking a Home
When an elderly parent dies after a long life of lovingly acquiring things, she leaves behind more than memories for her... Read more
27 Jan 2016
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16mins
Ranked #10
Episode 20: Everything Must Go
Episode 20: Everything Must Go
Some stories don’t end when you think they do. Some stories just pause. And then they sneak back around and whap you acr... Read more
3 Nov 2016
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17mins
Ranked #11
Episode 22: Kodachrome, Pt. 2
Episode 22: Kodachrome, Pt. 2
Who were we? How did we live, and what did it look like? The vast archive of castoff slides captures, in vivid colors, i... Read more
2 Dec 2016
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13mins
Ranked #12
Episode 12: Home With A Side of Fries
Episode 12: Home With A Side of Fries
It looks like a Hopper painting plunked incongruously down on a busy commercial street in West Los Angeles — The Apple P... Read more
9 Apr 2016
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14mins
Ranked #13
Episode 6: Ghosts of The Carlotta
Episode 6: Ghosts of The Carlotta
The venerable Villa Carlotta — home to show business A-listers in the Golden Age, and later to a generation of young act... Read more
17 Nov 2015
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22mins
Ranked #14
Episode 18: Cooking With Mihrette
Episode 18: Cooking With Mihrette
What happens when you bring a kid from the other side of the world into your home forever? How does it change what home ... Read more
31 Aug 2016
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20mins
Ranked #15
Episode 14: Rose, Mercedes and The Days Of The Dead
Episode 14: Rose, Mercedes and The Days Of The Dead
Actress/writer/artist Rose Portillo lives in the house she was born into, in the Silver Lake section of Los Angeles. It’... Read more
6 Jul 2016
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28mins
