Our Show About L.A. History
You Can’t Eat the Sunshine is the podcast of Esotouric, the offbeat Los Angeles company that turns the notion of guided bus tours on its ear. Each week, join Kim Cooper and Richard Schave on their Southern California adventures, as they visit with fascinating characters for wide-ranging interviews that reveal the myths, contradictions, inspirations and passions of the place. There’s never been a city quite like Los Angeles. Tune in if you’d like to find out why.
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Past Episodes
Episode #120: Boyle Heights Blossoming: Everything’s Different at Ray & Roy’s Market
Episode #119: Secrets of Llano del Rio and Utopian Los Angeles
Episode #117: SeaView, a Mid-Century Time Modern Capsule on the Palos Verdes Penninsula
Episode #116: Miracle Mile and a Mid-Century Master
Episode #115: Hollywood Book Culture & Downtown’s Chimney Swifts
Episode #114: Lures and Snares of Old Main Street
Episode #113: Pereira in Peril
Episode #112: Elysian Park Activists: Preserving Sacred Ground
Episode #111: The Wild World of Wallace Berman
Episode #110: El Pueblo to ELA
Episode #107: Clever Gifts and Nihilist Olympics: Two Unique Slices of L.A. Life
Episode #106: Recreation and Restoration in the San Gabriel Valley
Episode #104: A Day in the Life of Union Station / Harvey’s Broiler Reborn
Episode #103: The Stories She Could Tell: Skid Row 2015 / Go-Go Club 1966
Episode #102: Strange Stones and Frizzled Flowers
Episode #101: Renovation & Renewal in Skid Row’s Affordable House Stock
Episode #100: Arches & Aqueducts
Episode #99: From the Desert to Art Deco
Episode #98: Preserving the 1980s L.A. Music Scene & Taco Bell #1
Episode #97: Citrus, Books and Air Rights
Episode #96: Remembering the Trails Restaurant on old Route 66
Episode #95: Fantastical Architecture of Old Los Angeles
Episode #94: Grand Ave. and Grand Visions
Episode #93: Citrus, Steaks and Sub-division along old Route 66
Episode #92: Preservation On The Waterfront
Episode #91: Lost Long Beach & Cosmic Los Angeles
Episode #90: Guestbooks & Gridlock
Episode #89: A Riverside Architecture Road Trip
Episode #88: Whales, Landfills & Amusement Parks of the Palos Verdes Peninsula
Episode #87: Memorial Meanders in Orange & Anaheim
Episode #86: San Gabriel Valley Visionaries
Episode #85: Mapping Los Angeles
Episode #84: Saving a Streamline Moderne Gem in West Hollywood
Episode #83: Revealing A Lost Folk Art Environment in South Los Angeles
Episode #82: Steaks & Suburbia
Episode #81: The Printed Page & Silver Screen
Episode #80: Curating & Hoarding: Preservation in Action
Episode #79: Bringing the Past to Life: Felix in Hollywood & Duffy’s La Habra
Episode #78: Bunker Hill: Past, Present & Future
Episode #77: Legendary Southern Californians: The Orange & Huell Howser
Episode #76: Let There Be…Hollywood!
Episode #75: Silent Sweethearts, Noirish Dives & The Mother Road
Episode #74: Bibles & Rotisserie Chicken
Episode #73: 100 Years of “Dealing With” L.A.’s Skid Row
Episode #72: West Hollywood Preservationists Arise
Episode #71: Bunker Hill: Then & Now
Episode #70: We Are Wyvernwood
Episode #69: Rails & Remainders
Episode #67: Berlin & Bukowski
Episode #66: Architecture & Archives
Episode #65: Gnocchi and Knowing
Episode #64: Good, God & Guillotines
Episode #63: Secrets of the Alleys & Valley
Episode # 62: Biodynamics & Yiddishkeit
Episode #61: Poppies, Death & Noir
Episode #59: The Future Of Sidewalks & Old Buildings
Episode #58: Bringing the Past to Life: Hollywood & Boyle Heights
Episode #57: Steel, Glass and Guns
Episode #56: Crossing Over: Death & Bridges
Episode #55: Bunker Hill: Noir, Doomed and Still Relevant
Episode #54: Los Angeles’ Roots Run Deep
Episode #53: Speed Shops, Strip Clubs, Quarks, & the Future of Downtown LA
Episode #52: The Golden Age of Hollywood & Salvation
Episode #51: Cosmic Consciousness & Compost
Episode #50: Cowboys, Indians and a Railroad Baron’s Treasures
Episode #49: Hot Spots of Los Angeles, Old and New
Episode #47: The Europeans Take Hollywood
Episode #45: Mrs. Parker & Friends In The Garden Of Allah
Episode #44: Temples and Transformations
Episode #43: Arts & Crafts In The Arroyo
Episode #42: The Arts District, Then & Now
Episode #41: Conservation Codes & The Courthouse Crowd
Episode #40: A Tale of Two Bridges
Episode #38: Secrets of the Watts Towers
Episode#37: A Gypsy’s Palace in Downey (by way of Tunis)
Episode #36: Poets & Carpenters
Episode #35: The End of the Rainbow
Episode #34: Treasured Tomes & Train Tracks
Episode #33: Late Nights & Lost Lore
Episode #32: Ranchos & Rubber Plants
Episode #31: Free Speech & Forensic Science
Episode #30: Silversmiths & Silver Tongues
Episode #29: Typology & Typewriters
Episode #28: Miracle On Broadway & Ministering To The Masses
Episode #27: The Makers of Modern Los Angeles: Charles Fletcher Lummis & John Parkinson
Episode #26: Old L.A. Recipes: Baked Goods, Baked Clay and Beyond
Episode #25: Native Daughters & Exiles at Home in Los Angeles
Episode #23: Growing a neighborhood: The educated user’s guide to The Arts District
Episode #22: Tiles, Exiles & Aerospace
Episode #20: Sacred Sites & Sacred Streets
Episode #19: Lyman Stewart’s Downtown Legacy: The Union Rescue Mission and BIOLA
Episode #18: Peeling Back The Layers of The Arts District
Episode #17: Hollywood Hotspots and Pomona Preserved
Episode #15: Preserving Historic Los Angeles: On the Streets and In The Archives
Episode #14: From the Arroyo to the Riviera
Episode #13: Cowboys & Barflies
Episode #12: The Maltese Falcon & A Landmark In Chains
Episode #11: The Lugos & The Chandlers
Episode #10: The Rank & The Charismatic
Episode #8: Temperance Temple & Two-Lane Blacktop
Episode #7: Jazz Age Los Angeles: Haberdashers and Hermetic Rites
Episode #6: Steve Jobs’ Great White Whale & Funky Folk Artists of Slab City
Episode #5: Books & Bulldozers
Episode #4: Swizzle Sticks & Secret Salons
Episode #3: Bunker Hill & Bones of Contention
Latest Episode
Episode #120: Boyle Heights Blossoming: Everything’s Different at Ray & Roy’s Market
Join us this month for an episode dedicated to the vibrant, historic and soulful neighborhood of Boyle Heights, centered on the southeast corner of 4th Street and Camulos. We’ll talk with Yolanda Diaz, who recently purchased Ray & Roy’s Market, which was founded by a Japanese father and son after internment. Yolanda has a fresh new vision for this community hub, which includes inviting 15-year-old Isabel Peinado to create an ambitious, hand-painted mural about female empowerment on the market’s long west wall. What won’t change? The vintage walk-in freezer, which famously serves the coldest beer in Boyle Heights!
