Hyperlocal Camarillo Podcast
1) Shig Yabu: An American Tale
On March 13th, 1854, the Convention of Kanagawa was signed, kickstarting US-Japanese trade relations on tenuous circumstances. Many Japanese would eventually immigrate and become citizens of the Unit...Show More
2) Theodore Roosevelt and His Rough Rider
In 1898, then-Colonel Theodore Roosevelt led his famous Rough Riders into battle in the Spanish-American War. One Rough Rider was Santa Barbara native and fellow Harvard alumni, Stanley Hollister. In ...Show More
3) The Carmine Buono Murder: The First Underworld Trial On the West Coast
In the early hours of March 1, 1929, gunshots rattled across the Conejo Valley. A Packard Roadster rumbled toward Camarillo on what is now the 101 highway. Soon a corpse was found in a Camarillo field...Show More
4) Saint Mary Magdalen Chapel: Juan Camarillo's Legacy
As early as 1905, Juan Camarillo Jr. dreamed of constructing a brand-new Catholic chapel in the village of Camarillo. Learn about Juan’s inspired trip to the Vatican and how he originally wanted to bu...Show More
5) May Rindge vs. the Pacific Coast Highway: The Malibu Land Grant That Changed the Coastal Landscape Forever
In Part II, May Rindge continues the solemn promise she made to her late husband, Frederick Rindge, to resist all efforts by others to invade their domain, Rancho Topanga Malibu. Some of her efforts w...Show More
6) Rancho Topanga Malibu: The Fight Between May Rindge and the United States Government
Before his death in August of 1905, Fredrick Rindge, the Land Baron of Malibu asked his wife, May Rindge, to make a solemn promise: Preserve the natural beauty of their “Sunset-Land” ranch and resist...Show More
Rancho Topanga Malibu: The Fight Between May Rindge and the United States Government
25:43 | Jul 10th, 2020
7) Rancho Calleguas: How Southern California's Transportation Boom Gave Birth to a New City
Camarillo was incorporated as a city in 1964, but long before that, it was known as Rancho Calleguas, a 10,000-acre desert Adolfo Camarillo transformed into an agricultural mecca. But the rancho also ...Show More
8) Oxnard Plain: How The Great Floods Transformed Ventura County
In 1861, while the Civil War raged in the east, a monumental flood transformed California from a livestock economy into the world’s fifth largest supplier of food. Generational floods turned cattle r...Show More
9) Introducing: Hyperlocal Camarillo Podcast
Hot spots and best-kept-secrets in and around Camarillo, California, a bedroom community north of LA. Listen for interviews with a wide range of characters from Old Timers, Blue Hairs and Blue Beards ...Show More