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Huell Visits Nitt Witt Ridge, a Folk Art Home Made of Things Like Toilet Seats and Abalone Shells
Season 4
Episode 4011
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California's Gold with Huell Howser
World War II
Season 4
Episode 409
Huell goes back in time to learn about two fascinating, yet obscure, California footnotes to World War II: a German-made crane which is the largest self-propelled floating crane berthed at Long Beach Naval Shipyard, and an incident in 1942 involving a Japanese submarine that shelled the oil field of Ellwood in Goleta in Santa Barbara County.
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