• Episode 67 - Oranges, Sunshine, and Racism: The Selling of Los Angeles, 1885 - 1925

  • May 17 2021
  • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
  • Podcast
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Episode 67 - Oranges, Sunshine, and Racism: The Selling of Los Angeles, 1885 - 1925

  • Summary

  • The boys complain about dogecoin and student loan debt before Andrew tells the tale of the massive ad campaign of the late 1800s that turned southern California from sparsely populated farm land into a massive metropolitan area 

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    SOURCES
    The Land of Milk and Honey nickname
    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-California-called-the-Land-of-Milk-and-Honey - Featuring the answers of two random guys named John that are read in this ep 
    https://www.faithgateway.com/the-land-of-milk-and-honey/#.YKIKDqhKjIU - Biblical context

    The historian which Andrew mentions that wrote many of the articles below is Hadley Meares, her website is http://www.hadleymeares.com/
    https://www.malibumag.com/unpublished/a-sea-of-sunshine
    https://la.curbed.com/2018/4/20/17016988/los-angeles-history-timeline-facts-earthquakes
    https://la.curbed.com/2015/9/30/9916132/southern-california-rehab-capital-sanitariums
    https://la.curbed.com/2018/5/24/17350622/los-angeles-history-promoted-boosters-ads
    https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/downloads/w6634615w
    http://www.laalmanac.com/population/po02.php
    https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/losangelescountycalifornia,CA/PST045219
    https://www.dof.ca.gov/Forecasting/Demographics/Estimates/e-1/documents/E-1_2021PressRelease.pdf
    https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/california_res_pop-jan2018.pdf

    * Andrew (me) kinda stumbled over his reference to W.E.B. Dubois, a quick biography can be found here:
    https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/dubois-william-edward-burghardt-1868-1963/
    ** More info on Jefferson Edmonds and his newspaper The Liberator:
    https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/liberator-influential-african-american-newspaper-1900s-los-angeles 

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