Skip to main content
brightcove-4858089774001.jpg

Up Next

Back to Show
California's Gold with Huell Howser

Preview: Lummis House

This episode features Huell visiting the home of Los Angeles icon Charles Fletcher Lummis in Highland Park. Lummis, who died in 1928, was the founder of the Southwest Museum of the American Indian, an editor of the Los Angeles Times, and a collector and preservationist of Southwestern culture. The Lummis House, today a historic museum, was built by Lummis in the late nineteenth century. Huell learns about the life and legacy of Lummis, tours his collection of artifacts, listens to Lummis’s collection of rare wax cylinder recordings of Spanish songs from early California, and observes a recreation of the wax cylinder recording process with modern musicians."Lummis House" 

Support Provided By
Season
Printing Museum
27:36
Huell visits the the International Printing Museum in Carson.
Things Beside The Road
27:15
Huell’s finds adventure on the road and tours a 49er RV Park, an Air Museum, and more.
Santa Rosa Island
27:16
Huell visits Santa Rosa Island for the rich natural and human history.
Mare Island
27:38
Join Huell as he takes us on one of the last tours of Mare Island before the base closes.
Sidecars
26:04
Huell visits the 31st Griffith Park Sidecar Rally.
Masonic Cave
27:36
Huell’s off to Amador county and the town of Volcano.
Scotty's Castle
28:17
Huell travels to Death Valley to learn about Walter Scott and the castle named after him.
Desert Tower
27:50
Join Huell as he climbs to the top of The Desert View Tower in the Imperial Valley.
San Luis Obispo Train
27:42
Join Huell in the centennial celebration of the arrival of the first steam train to SLO.
Amboy
28:11
Join Huell on a sizzling trip to the Mojave Desert in San Bernardino County to visit Amboy
Devil's Jaw
25:40
Watch Huell as he embarks on a journey to the most dangerous spot on the California coast
John Muir Special
54:07
Huell meets and speaks to famed naturalist and Sierra Club founder "John Muir" reenacted.
Active loading indicator