Showing posts with label East Bay Yesterday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label East Bay Yesterday. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Time Travel on the San Francisco Bay


Few boats on the San Francisco Bay can claim to be time machines, but that’s just how East Bay Yesterday podcaster Liam O’Donoghue, tour guide of the Oakland and Richmond historical waterfronts, views the Pacific Pearl.

Dave and Aleta George on Fish Emeryville's Pacific Pearl in the
Oakland Estuary.
“In day-to-day life we look at the world in a three-dimensional view,” he says, “but when you know history, you can look at it through four dimensions because you can see into the past using your imagination.”

O'Donoghue has been leading historical tours of the East Bay waterfronts with Fish Emeryville. Although the tours have been cancelled for now due to the coronavirus, you can engage in some arm-chair travel on the bay by reading my article in Estuary News--and stick a pin in it for when the tours start up again!



Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Ina kicks rhymes

Poetry slams, mixed tapes, kicking rhymes, and Ina?

That's right. Ina Coolbrith is the first subject of Liam O'Donoghue's new podcast East Bay Yesterday. The 30-minute segment, "Oakland's first 'celebrity' librarian," is based on my book and a two-hour interview I did with O'Donoghue in Oakland.


"East Bay Yesterday is about history, but it's not stuck in the past," he says. He is so right. His language pops, and I love hearing him tell Ina's story.


Take a listen and then subscribe to the podcast. It's free! Each week O'Donoghue will share stories from Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond, and other East Bay towns.


"Expect to hear about everything from soul food and blues clubs to redwoods and riots," he says.