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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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28:20
Huell travels to Central California to visit the 80 acre Masumoto Family Farm.
24:29
Huell travels to the Mojave Desert's El Mirage Dry Lake to witness land sailing.
24:29
Huell travels to the Mojave Desert's El Mirage Dry Lake, one of the world's best spots for land sailors.
27:03
Huell sails aboard the state’s official tall ship, Californian.
28:22
Huell tracks down Point Fermin's beautiful glass Fresnel lens.
27:07
Join Huell as he hikes high up in the Eastern Sierra to visit the Conness Glacier.
26:32
Huell travels to the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake to see some rock art.
26:12
Huell spends the day in Granite Bay California learning the ancient art of Hoshigaki.
27:19
Huell visits Costa Mesa and sees how far its come from its start as a bean field.
27:44
In Long Beach, Calif., there’s a 42-acre collection of oilfield islands.
27:22
The Warnors Theatre, a Fresno landmark that opened in 1928, houses a unique pipe organ.