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Angel City FC vs. Portland Thorns Match Preview | Podcasters Turn Media Pros!In today's episode of Casual FC, hosts Angel and Mario dive into an action-packed Angel City match preview against the Portland Thorns! We celebrate our new media credentials, hype up the amazing Jen, and share fun memories from the home opener. We chat about key players to watch, our game expectations, and offer tips for those attending the watch party at Grand Central Market. Plus, some special shout-outs to our Discord family and heartfelt messages for Sydney Leroux. Buckle up for some footy talk and community vibes!

Send us a textHow is it possible that 2024 both flew by and seemed to last forever? We recap behind the scenes highlights from festivals and live events, our favorite interviews and return guests, a year that brought the Bay's first POC Food and Wine Fest and Color Your Mind Festival, the birth of The Bay List, and ending the year with a trip to LA for good food, a Bitch Talk business coaching session with Morgan Shidler, and the spank heard 'round the world.Have a good NYE everyone. Thank's so much for following, liking, re-sharing, and commenting on our content!Support the showThanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 11 years, recorded 800+ episodes, and won Best of the Bay Best Podcast in 2022 , 2023 , and 2024 without your help! -- Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, AAPI Lives Matter, and abortion is normal. -- Subscribe to our channel on YouTube for behind the scenes footage! Rate and review us wherever you listen to podcasts! Visit our website! www.bitchtalkpodcast.com Follow us on Instagram & Facebook Listen every Tuesday at 9 - 10 am on BFF.FM

That's right. Cole is done with outside. Hear why and watch us talk to some strangers for the very last time together in our longest episode ever, at the spot where it all began. Guests include a confident young man who loves to approach women, a nice guy working for the city metro system, a recent widow navigating this unexpected new phase in her life, and a huge surprise blast from our past. Recorded on 10/10/24 in front of Grand Central Market in Los Angeles.This is a Headgum podcast. Follow Headgum on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok. Advertise on Podcast But Outside via Gumball.fm.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode, Tim and Jeff dive into the recent heated exchange between Fifth Circuit Judge Edith Jones and Georgetown Professor Stephen Vladeck at the Federalist Society's Lawyers National Lawyers Conference. The debate centered on the tension between judicial independence and the criticism of judge shopping in high-profile cases.Tim and Jeff analyze the arguments from both sides, unpacking the implications for the legal profession and the judiciary. They explore the balance between maintaining judicial impartiality and the tactical decisions lawyers make to secure favorable venues.Appellate Specialist Jeff Lewis' biography, LinkedIn profile, and Twitter feed.Appellate Specialist Tim Kowal's biography, LinkedIn profile, Twitter feed, and YouTube page.Sign up for Not To Be Published, Tim Kowal's weekly legal update, or view his blog of recent cases.Other items discussed in the episode:Videos from this episode will be posted at Tim Kowal's YouTube channel.Upcoming Event:A California Appellate Lawyers Podcast (CALP) meetup on December 10 at the Grand Central Market in Los Angeles.Relevant Links:The Continued Independence of the Judiciary [2024 NLC]Elon Musk's Terms of Service Changes

Hello! We are back with a special mobile edition of Date Night. We are heading to Wexler's Deli in Grand Central Market and are so happy to bring you along. It's been a minute, so we go over things on our mind, some recent trips, how Sonny is the greatest, etc. Overall, just driving around and enjoying each other's company. This episode is brought to you by COVERGIRL, Biosil, Delola, and Saks.comSay hello to your IRL makeup filter in a bottle, COVERGIRL's Simply Ageless Skin Perfector Essence. Glowing, Radiant skin is only a pump away. Only from Easy, Breezy, Beautiful COVERGIRL. Get 30% off your first product order on Biosil's website with code WITHWHIT. Again, that's code WITHWHIT for 30% off your first order or subscription exclusively on Biosil.beautyVisit DelolaLife.com to buy Delola Cocktails now and use code WITHWHIT for $5 off your first bottle. Follow @Delola on instagram to learn more!Find inspiration for your new vibe, every day, at saks.com. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Frank Grillo joins the show to chat about new movie Lights Out as well as his upcoming role in the DC Universe. The guys chat about diets, micro-dosing, and why they'll never try Ayahuasca. Frank also chats about mansion taxes and being judged by a barista at a Starbucks. Chris reports the news on Dana White walking out of Howie Mandel's podcast, Rachel Dolezal losing her school job due to her OnlyFans account, cheerleaders at a Michigan school asked to wear pants under their uniforms, and a migrant teen arrested for robbing a Macy's after being released for the Times Square attack on the NYPD. Lastly, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cheryl Hines join the show to chat about their upcoming comedy event, Night of Laughter, in which Adam is performing. They also talk about Curb Your Enthusiasm's final season and the importance of comedy. Robert also addresses issues on American housing, the media's criticism of Joe Biden, and why he thinks he was denied Secret Service protection. For more with Frank Grillo: ● Lights Out is now in Theaters, on Demand and Digital For more with RFK Jr. and Cheryl Hines: ● LIVE SHOW: “NIGHT OF LAUGHTER” ○ This Weds, Feb 21 at Downtown LA's GRAND CENTRAL MARKET's MILLION DOLLAR THEATER ○ Rob Schneider, Tim Dillon and Bobby Lee also on the lineup ● http://kennedy24.com for tickets Thank you for supporting our sponsors: ● The Jordan Harbinger Show - Available everywhere you listen to podcasts ● http://OReillyAuto.com ● http://JustThriveHealth.com & use promo code ADAM

#202: What started more than a 100 years ago as a true marketplace for produce, spices, pastries, deli meats and other specialty groceries… is now 40 stalls of LA's best local restaurants.  Grand Central Market is a true sampling of LA's diverse culinary scene that has gone through many iterations and evolutions since it opened.    Today, HTLA chats with Gab Chabrán about the rich history and evolution of this LA icon. And of course, Gab tells us where — and how — to eat there. Guests: Gab Chabran, food editor at LAist; Tomas Martinez, owner of Tumbras a Tomas

Hosts Julie Slater and Jason Friday chat with (and share some tacos and beer with) Victor Villa of Villa's tacos in Los Angeles who went from a pop-up stand in his grandmother's yard to two store fronts and taking over the taco universe...Victor tells us about how a restaurant gets a “big Vermont” with Michelin…his lifelong philosophy on serving others and keeping the taste always the same…his family working at the restaurant…the history of his first taco pop-up…from his Grandmother's front yard to a taco empire…Victor's dream of the ability to share their great food with people…after the pod he announced a new location at Grand Central Market in Downtown LA…could Dodgers Stadium be next (one day, maybe)…who makes the eight salsas they offer…how one of his salsas made a grown man cry…how Victor wakes up with a smile on his face…his children and his fiancé…how people drive hours to taste Villa's tacos…how Victor has always looked at the positive in life and with his tacos…how he has always been himself and that's what he puts into his tacos…the family environment at Villa's…people love the family atmosphere and the feeling of belonging somewhere…how restaurants and the people can become such an important part of your life…the power of food and the power of memories…Find Villa's Tacos here  and in Highland Park and soon Grand Central Market, downtown LA.   IT'S 5 O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE: find out what tacos Victor would eat, if he had to - either Taco Bell, Del Taco, or tacos from Jack in the Box…his favorite Dodger player, living or dead…Fav spot in LA to chill out…what other city he'd like to live in…and what he hopes to pass down to his family/kids/the next generation… Follow @cuzihavetopodcast on Instagram for all the latest news.  We'd love to hear from you - email us at cuzihavetopodcast@gmail.com.  Find other episodes or leave us a voice message for the show on the anchor website. Thanks for tuning in! Keep on living those dreams, friends, CUZ YOU HAVE TO!! - jULIE AND jASON --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cuzihaveto/message

Monocle Radio's head of production, Sam Impey, takes a trip to Grand Central Market in Los Angeles. She meets its creative director, Erin Mavian, who shows her around and gives us a glimpse of what the market has to offer.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

My sister Sunday and I share the same birthday. She was nice enough to invite me to see the fantastic troubadour James Taylor at the Santa Barbara Bowl. On this Grubcast we get a chance to talk about the concert and discuss all of the many eateries we were able to try along the way. Join us to hear about the Grand Central Market in DTLA, Bradbury Building, Ketel One Martini, Spinach Artichoke Dip and BBQ ribs at Houston's in Pasadena, Pastrami on Rye at Brent's Deli in Westlake Village, Java Junkie, Beer Battered Onion Rings at Cold Creek Tavern, Solvang, CA and a little car talk. Sunday tells about her favorite car. 1978 Convertible Karmann VW Bug.

The City Nature Challenge began as a friendly rivalry between LA and San Francisco. Now millions of people globally are helping biologists by taking photos of their local plants and animals. Local governments must provide green bins for California residents. What to put in there, how to keep the waste from getting gross? KCRW answers your questions. Downtown LA's Grand Central Market has remained an LA institution since 1917. How has it managed to stick around so long? By embracing change.

One of my favorite bakers (and favorite people) is Nicole Rucker, owner of Fat & Flour in the Grand Central Market here in L.A., and the very first guest on my very first podcast, Lunch Therapy. In today's episode of "You've Got to Taste This," Nicole sends me a recipe for Silesian Heaven crispy pierogis from "Pierogi" by Zuza Zak. These pierogis are stuffed with dried fruit and well-seasoned pork, boiled, and then fried in butter with sesame seeds. Spoiler alert: they were out of this world! They were also a huge hit at Nicole's Cookbook Club, which is why she was inspired to send the recipe my way. In today's chat we talk all about her cookbook club and also cover the food she cooks at home, healing from a burn, why she's done putting miso into sweet desserts, and her hacks for banana bread. Get the recipe for these pierogis on amateurgourmet.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you're under 18, keep your ears covered. And if you're a big old pervert, you're gonna wanna spread those puppies wide open because adult actress Kazumi helps us interview strangers. Guests include a fashion designer whose designs are focused on suicide prevention, a cheese-monger who hosts a comedy show, and a young lady with some wild tales of having an unhinged Sugar Daddy. Recorded 11/22/22 at Grand Central Market in Los Angeles, CA.  Go to http://auraframes.com/outside to get up to $30 off Aura's best-selling frames. Go to http://storyworth.com/outside to save $10 on your first purchase! Go to http://feals.com/outside to become a member and get 50% off your first order plus free shipping. Go to http://audible.com/butoutside or text butoutside to 500-500 to try Audible free for 30 days. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp - go to http://betterhelp.com/outside to get 10% off your first month.

 Things You Should Stop Worrying About This WeekThe mysterious moans on American Airlines flightsAdult happy mealsThe New Jersey shoppers who ran for their lives from an active shooter that turned out to be a popcorn machine Floating skyscraper apartments coming to San FranciscoThis episode is sponsored by…Microdose GummiesMicrodose Gummies deliver perfect, entry-level doses of THC that help you feel just the right amount of good. To get free shipping & 30% off your first order, go to Microdose.com, and use code TINYDo YOU have a tiny victory to share? Call the Tiny Victories Hotline: (323) 285-1675We want folks to share their tiny victories on our hotline because, frankly, we'll assume we're just talking into the void every week and nothing matters. Prove us wrong. Did you finally do that thing you were putting off? Tiny victory! Reconnect with someone you haven't been in touch with for ages? Victory! We only ask that you try to keep messages to under a minute so we're able to play it on the show.If you prefer, you can record a tiny victory on your phone and then email us the audio. Email: TinyVictories@maximumfun.orgHOW TO @ USTwitter@GetTinyPod@LAGurwitch@ImLauraHouse@Swish (producer Laura Swisher)Instagram@GetTinyPod

A pretty nice day in Los Angeles checking out the Angels Flight railway, discovering the Grand Central Market, checking out the Walt Disney Concert Hall and then hitting Griffith Park and the Griffith Observatory to see the Hollywood sign.Then my flight got canceled late at night. Skip the first three minutes if you don't want to hear about my airport adventure.

John and Ken have the latest on the Buffalo mass shooter, Payton Gendron and a shooting in L.A. near Grand Central Market that left one person dead. A top Russian oligarch says they have a recording that proves Vladmir Putin has cancer.

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His name is Ben Baller, not Ben Humble & he's here to discuss: How failure led to his successes, needed to cut down & live simple, being a great time to sell but a bad time to buy, Cryptocurrency still being messed up, choosing sanity, peace & passive income, CaptainPicks Potential & making you all money, having everything he needs, redirecting his businesses, a shooting incident at Grand Central Market, saying Goodbye to Netic, charity event at kid's school, London's golf competition, what he's watching, going to San Diego, connecting with Murakami, Ryder's Birthday, going to The Kindom, NBA Playoffs, Fan Questions & more. This episode is not to be missed! Please support our sponsors: http://TrueBill.com/Baller If you are interested in NBA, NHL, MLB, Soccer, UFC & more Picks daily, weekly or monthly subscribe at www.CaptainPicks.com & Follow @TheCaptainPicks on Instagram Produced by: DBPodcasts www.dbpodcasts.com Follow @dbpodcasts on Instagram & Twitter Music by @lakeyinspired Available on all Podcast Platforms, YouTube & BehindTheBallerPod.com Behind The Baller Theme Music  Artist: Illegal Kartel (@illegal_kartel_mikal_shakur) Produced by: Gene Crenshaw @yuyuthemaker

 Today we are going to talk about Bridget “Biddy” Mason, the grandmother of Los Angeles, one of the most influential Black women in California. She overcame unimaginable prejudice and inequity and was one of the first prominent landowning citizens of Los Angeles. Briget was born into slavery in Georgia on August 15 of 1818. Her parents were of mixed African American and Native American descent. She wasn't given a last name. Because of this common practice with slaves, many African Americans can only go back so far in their ancestry. Stolen. One of her several slaveholders in Georgia and South Carolina started calling her Biddy. Biddy spent much of her childhood enslaved on John Smithson's plantation in South Carolina, performing tasks in the cotton fields, the South's most important crop. Biddy was forbidden to learn to read or write but she learned about herbs and midwifery from the older enslaved women. Smithson gave her, two other female house servants, and a blacksmith as a wedding gift to his cousins, Robert and Rebecca Smith. The Smiths were successful landowners in Logtown, Mississippi. Biddy was 18. Smith was Mormon convert who cultivated cotton and traded slaves. Although, Mormons were better known as opponents of slavery.  For the Smith family, Biddy did domestic work, toiled hard in the cotton fields and performed farm labor. At other times, she worked as a midwife and house nurse — a job she liked. Biddy took care of Rebecca Smith, who was often ill and helped her during the birth of her six children.  During her years in Mississippi, Biddy gave birth to Ellen, Ann and Harriet, aged ten, four, and a newborn. It's likely that Smith himself fathered these children. Like countless other enslaved women, Biddy was almost certainly the victim of sexual violence. In 1848, Smith decided to follow the call of the church with his fellow Mississippi Saints in the great Mormon Exodus to Utah. He moved his family and his 14 slaves west to the Salt Lake Valley where Joseph Smith established a new Mormon community seventeen years prior. The area was still part of Mexico at the time but would soon become Utah.   Smith, his wife and children sat in the wagon on the journey while  Biddy, her daughters and the other slaves walked barefoot behind the 300 wagon caravan. Biddy was in charge of herding the animals for the 1,700 mile trek.   While they walked from Mississippi through Illinois and Colorado towards Salt Lake City, Biddy had a ton of responsibilities, including herding the cattle, preparing and serving the campfire meals and setting up and breaking down camp. All this while acting as the midwife and herbalist for the party, and still tending to her three young daughters. The trail must have been disturbing, frightening and strange. There were moments when surely there was a chance to escape, and for this reason, Biddy's value increased on the trail. With young children, she didn't have the option to leave. They lived in Utah for three years until Governor Brigham Young authorized another Mormon community, this time in San Bernardino. Brigham Young warned Smith that California, had been admitted to the Union as a free, non-slave state the year prior. Smith ignored his warnings and set out with his family and slaves and a 150-wagon caravan in 1851, to establish the Mormon settlement and extend the reach of his Church.  When Smith arrived in San Bernardino, he became one of the counselors to the bishop and owned a very large property. He was among the wealthiest settlers in San Bernardino. Held in bondage in the Mormon colony were dozens of African Americans as well as an untold number of local Native Americans, as well as an untold number of local Native Americans. San Bernardino was built, in part, by enslaved laborers like Biddy. Even though California was technically a free state, it was a land made up of unfree laborers of various kinds. Many indigenous people weer being forced to work in the Los Angeles "slave mart." This "slave mart" was the second most important source of municipal revenue in Los Angeles after the sale of licenses for saloons and gambling venues. On the weekends, local authorities would seek out and arrest intoxicated natives on dubious vagrancy charges. The Native Americans were thrown in a pen, and their labor for the coming week was auctioned off. If they were paid at the end of that week at all, they were usually paid in alcohol so they could get drunk, be arrested and continue the cycle.  In California, Biddy met two sets of couples who were free blacks. Charles and Elizabeth Flake Rowan and Robert and Minnie Owens. They urged her to legally contest her slave status in California. But she did not. Biddy remained enslaved in a “free” state for five more years as Smith maintained his southern way of life in California. He found himself increasingly at odds with fellow colonists and his own church who favorably disposed toward the practice of slavery. In 1855, the leaders of the Mormon colony in San Bernardino thought they were paying top dollar for 80,000 acres of land but had purchased only 35,000 acres. Fine print fuck up. When the colony sued the people who had sold them the land, they lost. The court allowed them to choose up to 35,000 acres anywhere in the larger area. The church chose Smith's ranch. It was turned over to them without any compensation and Smith was pissed. Without his property in California and in fear of losing his slaves, he sold off his cattle and conspired a plan to quietly leave the colony and move to Texas. Biddy and her fellow slaves did not trust Smith and they feared they were going to be sold and separated from their children. Smith lied to Biddy, promising her and her family's freedom in Texas. He needed her cooperation to get there and considered her valuable property. Without his land, he needed a place for them to all stay as he secured provisions for the ride east. He chose a camp of settlers originally from the American South in the Santa Monica Hills. Surely a more hospitable place for a slaveholder than Mormn san Bernardino.  One of Biddy's daughters was romantically involved with the Owens son. In December, Robert Owens and Elizabeth Rowan tipped off the local authorities. There was a group of Black Americans that were being illegally held in Santa Monica Canyon and they were about to be taken across state lines to the slave state of Texas. The sheriffs from San Bernardino and Los Angeles approached Judge Benjamin Hayes. Hayes issued a writ of habeas corpus, widely used against slaveholders in free states. Late on the night of New Year's Eve 1855, as Los Angeles residents celebrated the new year, sheriffs raided Smith's camp in the Santa Monica mountains.  Biddy's children were taken into protective custody at the city jail at the corner of Spring and Franklin Streets in downtown L.A. They let Biddy stay with the Owens family. Judge Hayes ordered Smith to bear all costs associated with the case and caring for those placed in guardianship of the sheriffs as they prepared for trial.  Los Angeles was then still a small town and the three day court hearing, starting on January 19, 1856 was a huge event.   Smith argued that Biddy and the rest of his slaves wished to go to Texas with him. Under state law, Black Americans could not testify against white Americans. Judge Hayes brought Biddy  and her eldest daughters into his chambers along with two trustworthy local gentlemen who acted as observers. Hayes asked Biddy if she was willingly leaving for Texas and Biddy told him, “I always do what I have been told, but I have always been afraid of this trip to Texas.”  Biddy also told the judge about the kind of treatment they had been subjected to over the years. Hannah, who was one of the women enslaved by Smith, gave an unbelievably damaging testimony in the courtroom. She reluctantly said that she wanted to go to Texas. There were long silences. Hannah had given birth to a baby boy only two weeks earlier and was terrified of what Smith would do to her if she refused to go with him to Texas. Hayes sent the San Bernardino sheriff up to talk with her and she said, I promised I would say in court that I wanted to go but I don't want to go. If you bring me back to court, I'll say I want to go but I don't want to go. The sheriff returned with an affidavit saying that, in fact, she did not want to go. Smith's behavior before and during the course of the hearing made it clear she had good reason to be afraid. It was awful. He threatened the Owens family, a neighborhood grocer and a doctor in the courtroom yelling “If this case isn't resolved on Southern principles, all people of color will pay the price.” A gang of Smith's sons and workers went to the jail and tried to intimidate the jailer and lure Biddy's daughters away from the jail with alcohol. Biddy's lawyer abruptly withdrew from the case after being  threatened and offered a bribe of $200.  Judge Hayes was furious with Smith, and clearly rattled by what he had heard. His family was behaving like thugs. Robert Smith was lying about trying to take them out of California and this disturbed Hayes. Smith, who was not being held, was a no-show on the last day of the trial, Monday, January 21. He ran off to Texas. He knew his reputation was ruined and was unwilling to pay court costs. Judge Hayes stated "all the said persons of color are entitled to their freedom and are free and cannot be held in slavery or involuntary servitude, unless for the punishment of crimes, shall ever be tolerated in this State. It is therefore argued that they are entitled to their freedom and are free forever."    Amasa Mason Lyman was the mayor of San Bernardino and a Mormon Apostle. Biddy was a friend of Lyman and was fond of the Lyman family. Biddy took the surname Mason. It was her first last name.  With Smith gone, her daughters were released from protective custody and Mason moved her family into the Owens family home. They were now citizens in rough-and-tumble Los Angeles, where only around 80 of its 4,000 residents were Black. Her oldest daughter, Ellen, married the Owens' son, Charles. Owing to her experience and quality of work, she became one of the most popular midwives of that state, using the skills she learned as a slave.  Judge Hayes had a brother-in-law famous for being one of the first formally trained doctors in Southern California. Dr. John Strother Griffin, the “Father of East Los Angeles”. Griffin was impressed with her nursing skills and hired her as a nurse and midwife. She made $2.50 per day. That would be about $85 dollars in 2022. About 10 bucks a day for an 8 hour day. Griffin's office was on Main Street in the same county building as the jail in which she'd taken refuge with the 13 other enslaved people fighting for freedom. She offered her services to the prisoners free of charge. Biddy delivered hundreds of babies in Los Angeles and braved a smallpox epidemic, risking her life to tend to the sick. In her big black medicine bag, she carried the tools of her trade, and the papers Judge Hays had given her affirming that she was free. Biddy Mason worked as a midwife for ten years, saving her earnings carefully. When she was 48, she purchased her own property on the outskirts of Los Angeles where there were more gardens and vineyards than paved streets. She was the first African American woman to buy property in Los Angeles. It had a water ditch, and a willow fence running around the plot. Two lots for $250. Mason initially used the land for gardening and lived with the Owens. This purchase made her one of the first pioneers of Los Angeles. A remarkable feat for a woman who had spent the first 37 years of her life enslaved.  In her home, she established the city's first child care center for working parents. The First African Methodist Episcopal Church is the oldest African American church in the city. It was established on her Spring Street property. The initial meetings were held in Mason's home in 1872. She paid taxes and all expenses on church property to hold it for her people. The permanent church was eventually erected on land she donated at Eighth and Towne. Mason was quickly beloved and “known by every citizen” as “Aunt Biddy.”   She was also well received in the Los Angeles Spanish-speaking community. She could not read or write, but had become a fluent Spanish-speaker. She befriended Pio Pico, Mexico's last governor in California. Pico, Owens and Griffin were involved in real estate and all encouraged her to invest her money wisely and purchase property. Biddy invested in real estate in what is now the heart of downtown L.A. Finally, in 1884 Mason finally moved to her own land at 311 Spring Street and what is now Broadway. On one of the two lots, she built a two-story brick building which she rented the first floor to commercial interests and lived in an apartment on the second. Los Angeles was booming, and rural Spring Street was becoming crowded with shops and boarding houses. She sold the north lot for $1,500. A gain of nearly $13,000 today. She sold a property she had purchased on Olive Street for $375 in 1868, for $2,800. $82,000 today. Basically, in 1884, Biddy had over a 100,000 year in today's numbers. There were dirt streets and unpaved sidewalks, with curbs and gutters. The drainage system was primitive. Water was still channeled through the city through open ditches and bricklaid channels. Only fifteen streets had sewers running below their surface via riveted iron pipes. Three hundred foot tall poles holding electric lights had recently been erected on the major streets, illuminating with 3,000 candle power. Early that year, storms in February of 1884 caused the Los Angeles River to swell and cut new channels and the city's streets began to flood. The Aliso Street Bridge broke in two, part of the bridge was pushed down the river with half a dozen homes and they all lodged against the First Street Bridge,  creating a dam. The water rose, the river overflowed its banks and flooded the streets. Finally, the pressure from the rising water and the piled up homes and portion of bridge was too much for the First Street Bridge.  The west bank eroded when the First Street Bridge collapsed and thirty-five more houses were carried away. Along the riverbed, people sifted through the debris. Cradles, baby wagons, doors, cupboards, fences, pigs. Looking for something. Someone. Brooms, chickens, orange trees, beds. It was a dreadful sight. People were killed. Obviously, city lighting could not slow fooding, but it would aid in the recovery from the storm that had put a third of the city under water for hours. After the flood, Biddy arranged a deal with a grocer on Fourth and Spring. All of the families who lost their home were able to sign off for all of their groceries. Biddy Mason would pay the tab. Biddy owned land on San Pedro Street in Little Tokyo and was renting to over twenty tenants on three large plots near the now Grand Central Market. For the next three decades, she continued her real estate venture,  participating in the frontier town's transformation into an emerging metropolis. She used her wealth, a fortune of $300,000, the equivalent to $9.5 million in 2022 to feed and shelter the poor. She would visit the jail to leave a token and a prayerful hope with every prisoner. She opened a foster home, an elementary school for black children and a traveler's aid center. She was charming, effective and was deeply appreciated. In so many ways, she became the backbone of society. She helped her family buy properties around the city. She deeded a portion of her remaining Spring Street property to her grandsons “for the sum of love and affection and ten dollars.” She signed the deed with her customary fancy “X.” Still, never learning to read or write. Too busy making that cash.  Her success enabled her to support her extended family for generations.  Los Angeles had become a bustling city with 50,000 residents in the late 1880's. She was so well-known, at dawn each morning, a line would form in front of Mason's gate. Swarming with people in need of assistance. Her neighborhood developed quickly around her homestead and by the early 1890s, the main financial district of Los Angeles was one block from Mason's property. As she grew old and became too ill to see visitors, her grandson Robert was forced to turn people away each morning.  On January 15, 1891 Bridget “Biddy” Mason died at her beloved homestead in Los Angeles. She was 73 years old, one of the wealthiest Black women in the country. When she was buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in Boyle Heights, her grave was left unmarked. The family held onto Mason's cherished “first homestead” until the Depression. Today the Broadway Spring Center Parking garage stands on the site.  Ninety-Seven years after her death, L.A. Mayor Tom Bradley, and members of the church she founded held a ceremony, during which her grave was finally marked with a tombstone. Biddy Mason Memorial Park in downtown Los Angeles was erected one year later in her honor. Behind the Bradbury Building near Third and Spring, a memorial on an 80-foot-long poured concrete wall shows the timeline of Biddy Mason's life. November 16 was declared “Biddy Mason Day” in Los Angeles. Jackie Broxton said this, "She showed people what could happen when they were free and could set their own destiny". Jackie Broxton is the CEO & President of the Biddy Mason Charitable Foundation. The Biddy Mason Charitable Foundation was established in 2013 and began as an outreach ministry of the church Biddy founded. The Foundation caters to current and former foster youth in the local community. It should also be noted that Biddy's success story was the exception and not the rule. I believe that she attained so much, because she gave so much. As she navigated multiple levels of oppression, Biddy advocated for her community. When it comes to movements advancing our communities, culture, and policies in more equitable directions, it seems that women have always been at the forefront. Biddy Mason once said, “If you hold your hand closed, nothing good can come in. The open hand is blessed, for it gives in abundance, even as it receives.” She is an inspiration that when given the support and opportunity, it is possible to overcome even the toughest of circumstances. Her story is one of resilience, compassion, and triumph. The fight continues today against the inherited systemic racism, sexism, and each and every intersection.  Sources: Los Angeles Almanac  Free Forever: The Contentious Hearing That Made Biddy Mason A Legend By  Hadley Meares The Life of Biddy Mason: From Slave to a Master by Fareeha Arshad Biddy Mason Collaborative National Park Service Biddy Mason: One of LA's first black real estate moguls By Hadley Meares Los Angeles Western Corral Honoring the legacy and 200th birthday of slave-turned-entrepreneur Biddy Mason by Michael Livingston Negro Trail-Blazers of California by Delilah Beasley  The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History by Dolores Hayden https://kentakepage.com/bridget-biddy-mason/ Bridget "Biddy" Mason: From Bondage to Wealth - Kentake Page Biddy Mason Charitable Foundation  

Congrats to Adam Bomb, who won week 3 of #moxiemillion, by sharing the show to help it reach 1 million downloads this month! Necessity is the mother of invention and these inventions had real mothers!  Hear about Black female inventors, the tribulations of research, and a story I didn't expect to find and couldn't pass up. 01:00 L'histoire  06:36 Martha Jones's corn husker 07:55 Mary Jones de Leon's cooking apparatus 08:56 Judy Reed's dough kneader-roller 10:30 Sarah Goode's folding bed-desk 11:40 Sarah Boon's ironing board 17:15 Lyda Newman's hairbrush 19:33 Madam CJ Walker's Wonderful Hair-grower 22:03 Biddy Mason Links to all the research resources are on the website. Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs.  Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter,  or Instagram.  Become a patron of the podcast arts! Patreon or Ko-Fi.  Or buy the book and a shirt. Music: Kevin MacLeod, David Fesilyan, Dan Henig. and/or Chris Haugen. Sponsors:  What Was That Like, Reddit on Wiki, Sambucol Want to start a podcast or need a better podcast host?  Get up to TWO months hosting for free from Libsyn with coupon code "moxie."   The first Africans arrived at Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. They were recorded as “20 and odd Negroes.” These Africans had been stolen from a Portuguese slave ship, transported to an English warship flying a Dutch flag and sold to colonial settlers in American.  The schooner Clotilda (often misspelled Clotilde) was the last known U.S. slave ship to bring captives from Africa to the United States, arriving at Mobile Bay, in autumn 1859[1] or July 9, 1860   The end of the Civil War and the passage of the 13th and 14th Amendments meant that all black inventors now had the right to apply for patents. The result over the next few decades was a virtual explosion of patented inventions by black mechanics, blacksmiths, domestic workers, and farm laborers — many of them ex-slaves. By 1895 the U.S. Patent Office was able to advertise a special exhibit of inventions patented by black inventors. The list of new inventions patented by blacks after the Civil War reveals what kinds of occupations they held and in which sectors of the labor force they were concentrated. Agricultural implements, devices for easing domestic chores, and devices related to the railroad industry were common subjects for black inventors. Some patented inventions developed in the course of operating businesses like barbershops, restaurants, and tailoring shops. started here Researching African-American history is far tougher than it should be.  Marginalized stories don't get written down, and then there was the whole Lost Cause thing, actively eradicating what stories had been recorded.  For those in far-flung parts fortunate enough not to have have attended a school whose history books were written or chosen by these [sfx bleep], the Lost Cause was people like the Daughters of the Confederacy purposefully rewriting history.  Their version of events was that civil war generals were heroes, slaves were generally treated well and were happy to work for their enslavers, and that the war was about state's rights, not the immorality of owning another human being.  It was from this movement that my hometown of Richmond, VA got a beautiful tree-lined avenue of expensive row houses and every third block had a statue of a civil war general.  the number of Confederate memorial installations peaked around 1910 — 50 years after the end of the Civil War and at the height of Jim Crow, an era defined by segregation and disenfranchisement laws against black Americans. Confederate installations spiked again in the 1950s and 1960s, during the Civil Rights Movement.  It weren't nothing to do with celebrating ancestors who fought for what they believed in, which you shouldn't do if your ancestor was so stunningly wrong in their beliefs, it was about telling African-Americans that you haven't forgotten when they were under your boot and you'd bring all that back tomorrow if you could.  The statues are on my mind today because I was just in a networking event with Noah Scalin and Mark Cheatham, the artists who created a now iconic (regionally) iconic image of the empty plinth where the Robert E Lee statue stood.  Scalin was the guy that started the Skull A Day website, if you ever saw that, and my husband helped him do an art installation in Times Square.   But my squirrel brain was talking about the inherent difficulty of researching this topic.  Details were sparse for the male inventors and it wasn't uncommon for me to find the same photo used on articles about different people, and if I ever, say, shared an image of Benjamin Montgomery with the caption Henry Boyd, many many apologies for the inconvenience.  But in researching black *women inventors, I'd be lucking to *find a picture, misattributed or otherwise.  Or their story or even enough of a bio to fill out aa 3x5 index card.  I got nothing, bupkis, el zilcho.  Well, not nothing-nothing, but not a fraction of what I wanted to present to you.  One of my goals with YBOF is to amplify the stories of POC, women, and the LGBT (see my recent Tiktok about the amazing Gladys Bently for the trifecta), but I guess if I really mean to do that, I'm going to have to abandon Google in favor of an actual library, when I no longer have to be wary of strangers trying to kill me with their selfishness.  That aside, I love a library.  I used to spend summer afternoons at the one by my house in high school – it was cool, quiet, full of amazing knowledge and new stories, and best of all, my 4 little sisters had no interest in going.  When you come from a herd of six kids, anything you can have exclusively to yourself, even if it's because no one else wants it, immediately becomes your favorite thing.   So I don't have as much as I wanted about Black female inventors of the pre-Civil War era, but I did find one real gem that I almost gave the entire episode to, but we'll come to her.  As with male inventors, it can be a little sketch to say this one was first or that one was first.  There are a number of reasons for this.  Black people kept in bondage were expressly prohibited from being issued patents by a law in 18??.  Some would change their names in an attempt to hide their race, some would use white proxies, and of course many Black inventors had their ideas stolen, often by their enslavers, who believed that they owned not only the person, but all of their work output, that they owned the inventor's ideas as much as they owned the crops he harvested, the horseshoes he applied, or the goods he built.     The other big thing that makes early patent history tricky is something I've dealt with personally, twice - a good ol' fashioned structure fire.  A fire broke out in a temporary patent office and even though there was a fire station right next door, 10,000 early patents were lost, as were about 7000 patent models, which used to be part of the application process.  Long story short, we don't, and probably can't, know definitively who was the first, second, and third Black woman to receive a patent, so I'm going to take what names I *can find and put them in chronological order, though surely there are some inventors whose names have been lost, possibly forever.   Martha Jones is believed to be the first Black woman to receive a U.S. patent in 1868, three years after the end of the Civil War, for her improvement to the “Corn Husker, Sheller.”  Her invention made it possible to husk, shell, cut and separate corn all in one step, saving time and labor.  This would be for dry or field corn, the kind used to make cornbread, not sweet corn, the kind you eat on the bone in the summer.  This invention laid a foundation stone for advancements in automatic agricultural processes that are still in use today.  I can show you the schematics from Jones' patent, but as for Jones herself, I've got sweet Fanny Adams.  But I can tell you that her patent came 59 years after the first white woman got hers in 1809, for a weaving process for bonnets, which I think also illustrates what constituted a “problem” in each woman's life.  On the gender side of things, Jones' patent came 47 years after Thomas Jennings became the first black man to receive a U.S. Patent in 1821 for the precursor to dry-cleaning, whose details we lost in that fire.   Next up, or so it is believed, was another Jones (it's like Wales in here today), Mary Jones De Leon.  In 1873, De Leon was granted U.S. patent No. 140,253 for her invention titled ”Cooking Apparatus.”  De Leon, who lived in Baltimore, Maryland, and is buried outside Atlanta, GA, created an apparatus for heating or cooking food either by dry heat or steam, or both.  It was an early precursor to the steam tables now used in buffets and cafeterias.  Remember buffets?  We'll be explaining them to our grandkids.  You'd go to a restaurant and eat out of communal troughs with strangers for $10.  By the way, if I were to say ‘chafing dish' and you thought of a throw-away line from the 1991 movie Hot Shot, “No, a crock pot is for cooking all day,” that's why we're friends.  If you didn't, don‘t worry, we're still friends.   The third patent in our particular pattern went to Judy Woodford Reed, and that patent is about the only records we have for her.  She improved existing machines for working bread dough with her "Dough Kneader and Roller" in 1884.  Her design mixed the dough more evenly, while keeping it covered, which would basically constitute sterile conditions back then.  Reed appears in the 1870 Federal Census as a 44 year old seamstress near Charlottesville, Virginia, along with her husband Allen, a gardener, and their five children.  Sometime between 1880 and 1885, Allen Reed died, and Judy W. Reed, calling herself "widow of Allen," moved to Washington, D. C.  It is unlikely that Reed was able to read, write, or even sign her name.  The census refers to Judy and Allen both as illiterate, and her patent is signed with an "X".   That might have actually worked to her favor.  Lots of whites, about 1 in 5, were illiterate back then, too, and an X reveals neither race nor gender.   The first African-American woman to fully sign a patent was Sarah E. Goode of Chicago.  Bonus fact: illiteracy is why we use an X to mean a kiss at the bottom of a letter or greeting card.  People who couldn't sign their name to a contract or legal document would mark it with an X and kiss it to seal their oath.  Tracing the origin of O meaning hug is entirely unclear, though, and theories abound.   Sarah Elisabeth Goode obtained a patent in 1885 for a Cabinet-bed, a "sectional bedsteads adapted to be folded together when not in use, so as to occupy less space, and made generally to resemble some article of furniture when so folded."  Details continue to be sparse, but we know that as of age 5 in 1860, she was free and living in Ohio.  She moved to Chicago 10 years later and 10 years after that, married a man named Archibald, who was a carpenter, as her father had been.  They had some kids, as people often do, though we don't know how many.   If they had many kids or lived in a small space for the number of kids they had, that could have been what motivated Goode to create a very early version of the cool desk that turns into a bed things you can see online that sell for hundreds or thousands of dollars.  Goode's invention had hinged sections that were easily raised or lowered. When not functioning as a bed, the invention could easily be used as a desk with small compartments for storage, ideal for a small city apartment, especially if there were hella kids in there.   We have a bit more on another Sarah inventor, this time Sarah Boone of NC.  Born into bondage in 1832, Sarah may have acquired her freedom by marrying James Boone, a free Black man, in 1847.  Together, they had eight children and worked to help the Underground Railroad.  Soon the family, along with Sarah's widowed mother, made their way north to New Haven, Connecticut.  Sarah worked as a dressmaker and James as a bricklayer until his death in the 1870s.  They'd done well enough for themselves to purchase their own home.  Far removed from the strictures and structures of enslavement, Sarah became a valued member of her community and began taking reading and writing lessons.     It was through her workaday life as a dressmaker that she invented a product you might well have in your home today, the modern-day ironing board.  Quick personal aside in an episode that's already chock-full of them–did anyone else marry military or former military and make your spouse do all the ironing because you assume they'd be better at it from having to do their uniforms?  I can't be the only one.  Back to Sarah Boone, who wanted “to produce a cheap, simple, convenient and highly effective device, particularly adapted to be used in ironing the sleeves and bodies of ladies garments.”   You might think the ironing board didn't *need to be “invented,” that it was just one of those things everybody kinda just had, but no.  Prior to Boone, you'd put bits of wood between the backs of two chairs, like a makeshift sawhorse.  And anyone who's ever used a makeshift sawhorse only to have it slide apart out from under them or end up sawing into their dining room table will attest that there was indeed room for improvement.  She began by creating a narrower, curved board that could slip into the  sleeves of dresses and shirts, with padding to stop the texture of the wooden base from being imprinted onto the fabric, and the whole thing collapsed for easy storage.   With a bit of help from other dressmakers, she finalized the design for which she'd be awarded her patent in 1892.  Such a simple device was a boon to many a homemaker, though there remains the extent to which she profited from the invention, particularly as they became a product for mass distribution by companies. Even so, we know that it was soon an indispensable household device and made manufacturers wealthy.   MIDROLL   Lyda Newman is remembered for two things, patented the first hairbrush with synthetic bristles in 1898 and her activism in the women's voting rights movement of the early 20th century – she was a key organizer of a Black branch of the Woman Suffrage Party, which was trying to give women the legal right to vote.  We know she was born in Ohio sometime between 1865 and 1885, which is a helluva range for history so relatively recent, and that she spent most of her life living in New York City, working as a hairdresser.      As a hairdresser, and an owner of a head of hair herself, Newman wanted the process of brushing hair to be more hygienic and efficient.  Most hairbrushes at the time were made using animal hair, the same kind you might get in shaving brushes or paint brushes.  Now imagine trying to get knots out with a shaving brush.  Animal-based bristles were too soft for the job, which is where we get the old trope/advice of 100 strokes – it took that many to get the job done.  And that was for white woman.  These brushes were practically useless for the thicker textures of African American hair.  Animal hair also harbored bacteria like it's nobody's business, which is unfortunate since it was also used to bristle toothbrushes and, oh yeah, back in the day, you'd have a single household toothbrush that everyone shared.  Newman's brush used synthetic fibers, which were more durable and easier to clean, in evenly spaced rows of bristles with open slots to clear debris away from the hair into a recessed compartment.  The back could be opened with a button for cleaning out the compartment.     This wasn't a gimmick or fly-by-night idea.  Newman's invention changed the hair-care industry by making hairbrushes less expensive and easier to manufacture.  This paved the way for other Black inventors in the hair-care space to actually *create the black hair care industry, chief among them, Sarah Breedlove.  Don't recognize the name?  What if I call her Madam C.J. Walker?  Well, I'm gonna tell you about her either way.  Breedlove, born in 1867 in Louisiana, was the first child in her family born into freedom, but found herself an orphan at age seven after both parents died of yellow fever.  She lived with a brother-in-law, who abused her, before marrying Moses McWilliams at age 14 to get away from him.  Sarah was a mother at 17 and a widow at 20, so on the whole, not having a good time of it.  And to top it all off, her hair was falling out.   She developed a product to treat the unspecified scalp disease that caused it, made of petroleum jelly, sulfur, and a little perfume to make it smell better.  And it worked!  She called it Madame C.J.Walker Wonderful Hair Grower (she was now married to Charles Walker) and along with Madame C.J.Walker Vegetable Shampoo, began selling door-to-door to other African-American women suffering from the same disease.  5 years later, she set up the Madame C.J.Walker Manufacturing Company in the US, and later expanded her business to Central America and the Caribbean.  She recruited 25,000 black women by the early 1900s to act as door-to-door beauty consultants across North and Central America, and the Caribbean.  Walker was the first one using the method known today as direct sales marketing to distribute and sell her products, a method adopted later on by Avon, TupperWare, and others.  And she paid well, too!  You could earn $25 a week with Walker, a damn site better than $2 per week as a domestic servant.  Her workforce would grow to be 40,000 strong.  So don't be telling me that paying a living wage is bad for business.   Walker didn't keep her success to herself, but used her wealth to support African-American institutions, the black YMCA, helped people with their mortgages, donated to orphanages and senior citizens homes, and was a believer in the power of education.  Now be sure you don't do as I am wont to do and accidentally conflate Madame CJ Walker with Maggie Walker, the first African American woman to charter a bank and the first African American woman to serve as a bank president, and an advocate for the disabled, because she deserves coverage of her own.    As I was searching for black female inventors, I came across one listicle with a paragraph on a woman the author claimed helped “invent” the city of Los Angeles.  That's a bit of a stretch, I thought to myself, but as I read the story of Bridget “Biddy” Mason, I became so utterly fascinated, I almost flipped the script to do the episode entirely about her.  I did not, as you've plainly noticed, since I'd already done primary research for the first six pages of an eight page script. Biddy was born into slavery in 1818 in Georgia, maybe.  We do know she spent most of her early life on a plantation owned by Robert Smithson.  During her teenage years, she learned domestic and agricultural skills, as well as herbal medicine and midwifery from African, Caribbean, and Native American traditions of other female slaves.  Her knowledge and skill made her beneficial to both the slaves and the plantation owners.  According to some authors, Biddy was either given to or sold to Robert Smith and his wife Rebecca in Mississippi in the 1840s.  Biddy had three children, Ellen, Ann, and Harriet.  Their paternity is unknown, but it's been speculated that Ann and Harriet were fathered by Smith.   Smith, a Mormon convert, followed the call of church leaders to settle in the West to establish a new Mormon community in what would become Salt Lake City, Utah in what was at the time still part of Mexico.  The Mormon church was a-okay with slavery, encouraging people to treat the enslaved kindly, as they were lesser beings who needed the white man's protection.  In 1848, 30-year-old Mason *walked 1,700 miles behind a 300-wagon caravan. Along the route west Mason's responsibilities included setting up and breaking camp, cooking the meals, herding livestock, and serving as a midwife as well as taking care of her three young daughters aged ten, four, and an infant.  Utah didn't last long for the Smiths and 3 years later, they set out in a 150-wagon caravan for San Bernardino, California to establish another Mormon community.  Ignoring warnings that slavery was illegal in California, Smith gathered his livestock and people they treated like livestock and schlepped them along.  Although California joined the United States as a free state in 1850, the laws around slavery were complicated and there was a lot of forced labor to be found.  Indigenous people could be forced to work as "contract laborers."  How, you ask?  Well this made we swear loudly when I read it.  Every weekend, local authorities would arrest intoxicated Natives on dubious charges and take them to what was essentially a slave mart and auction off their labor for the coming week. If they were paid at the end of that week, they were usually paid in alcohol so they could get drunk and be arrested to be auctioned off again.   Along the way, biddy Mason met free blacks who urged her to legally contest her slave status once she reached California, a free state.  When they got to Cali, Mason met more free blacks, like her lifelong friends Robert and Minnie Owens, who told her the same thing.  Smith must have noticed this, because a few years later, fearing the loss of his slaves, he decided to move the whole kit and caboodle to Texas, a slave state.  This was obviously real bad news for Mason and the other enslaved people, but thankfully Mason had the Owens on her side, particularly since her now 17 year old daughter was in love with their son.  The law was on her side, too.  The California Fugitive Slave Act, enacted in 1852, allowed slave owners to temporarily hold enslaved persons in California and transport them back to their home state, but this law wouldn't have covered Smith because he wasn't from Texas.  When Robert Owens told the Los Angeles County Sheriff that there were people being illegally held in bondage and being taken back to a slave state, the sheriff gathered a posse, including Owens, his sons, and cattleman from Owens' ranch, and cut Smith off at the pass, literally Cajon Pass, and prevented him from leaving the state.  The sheriff was armed with a legal document, a writ of habeus corpus, signed by Judge Benjamin Hayes.   On January 19, 1856 she petitioned the court for freedom for herself and her extended family of 13 women and children.  Their fate was now in the hands of Judge Hayes.  You wouldn't expect Hayes to be on Mason's side in a dispute against Smith.  Hayes hailed from a slave state and had owned slaves himself, plus in his time as a journalist, he's written pro-Mormon articles.  The trial started with a damning statement from Biddy's eldest daughter Hannah, herself a mother of a newborn, saying she wanted to go to Texas.  The sheriff spoke to her afterwards and found she was terrified of Smith and had said what she was told to say.  She wasn't wrong to be scared.  Smith threatened Mason's lawyer and bribed him to leave the case.  Smith's son and hired men trail hands went to the jail where Mason and her family were being kept safe and tried to intimidate the jailer.  They also threatened the Owens family and a neighborhood grocer and a doctor. They said 'If this case isn't resolved on Southern principles, you'll all pay the price, all people of color.'    Judge Hayes…he wasn't having any of this.  Technically, Mason and her children had also become free the minute they stepped into California. The new California constitution stated that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude unless for the punishment of crimes shall ever be tolerated in this state.” However, lacking options and probably unaware of her full rights, Mason continued to serve in the Smith household.  Smith claimed Mason and the others had stayed because they were “members of his family” who voluntarily offered to go with him to Texas.  Mason, as a non-white person, was legally barred from testifying against the white Smith in court, so Judge Hayes took her into his chambers along with two trustworthy local gentlemen who acted as observers to depose her.  He asked her only whether she was going voluntarily, and what she said was, 'I always do what I have been told, but I have always been afraid of this trip to Texas."    Smith fled to Texas before the trial could conclude.  On January 19, Judge Hays ruled in favor of Mason.  "And it further appearing by satisfactory proof to the Judge here, that all the said persons of color are entitled to their freedom and are free and cannot be held in slavery or involuntary servitude, it is therefore argued that they are entitled to their freedom and are free forever."  He hoped they would “become settled and go to work for themselves—in peace and without fear.”   Okay, now we're getting to the part of Biddy Mason's story that the listicle writer used to include her in a gallery of inventrixes.  Mason and her family moved to Los Angeles, then a dusty little town of only 2,000 or so residents, less than 20 of whom were black, where she worked as midwife and nurse.  As the town grew, so did her business.  Basically, if you were having a baby, Biddy Mason was delivering it.  Well, her friend Dr. Griffin probably helped, but we're hear to talk about Biddy.  After tending to hundreds of births and illnesses, she was known about town as Aunt Biddy.  As a midwife, Mason was able to cross class and color lines and she viewed everyone as part of her extended family.  In her big black medicine bag, she carried the tools of her trade, and the papers Judge Hayes had given her affirming that she was free, just in case.    By 1866, she had saved enough money to buy a property on Spring Street.  Her daughter Ellen remembered that her mother firmly told her family that “the first homestead must never be sold.”  She wanted her family to always have a home to call their own.  My family is the same way – if you can own land, even if it's an empty lot, do.  Mason's small wood frame house at 311 Spring Street was not just a family home, it became a “refuge for stranded and needy settlers,” a daycare center for working women, and a civic meeting place.  In 1872, a group of black Angelenos founded the First African Methodist Episcopal Church at her house and they met there until they were able to move to their own building.     She also continued to invest in real estate, while always making sure to give back. According to the Los Angeles Times: “She was a frequent visitor to the jail, speaking a word of cheer and leaving some token and a prayerful hope with every prisoner. In the slums of the city, she was known as “Grandma Mason,” and did much active service toward uplifting the worst element in Los Angeles. She paid taxes and all expenses on church property to hold it for her people. During the flood of the early eighties, she gave an open order to a little grocery store, which was located on Fourth and Spring Streets. By the terms of this order, all families made homeless by the flood were to be supplied with groceries, while Biddy Mason cheerfully paid the bill.”   Eventually she was able to buy 10 acres, on which she built rental homes and eventually a larger commercial building she rented out.  That land she invested in and developed is now the heart of downtown L.A. three substantial plots near what is now Grand Central Market as well as land on San Pedro Street in Little Tokyo.  Mason was a shrewd businesswoman too.  Los Angeles was booming, and rural Spring Street was becoming crowded with shops and boarding houses. In 1884, she sold the north half of her Spring Street property for $1,500 and had a mixed-use building built on the other half.  She sold a lot she had purchased on Olive Street for $2,800, turning a tidy profit considering she'd bought it for less than $400.  In 1885, she deeded a portion of her remaining Spring Street property to her grandsons “for the sum of love and affection and ten dollars.”  She signed the deed with her customary flourished “X.” Though she was a successful real estate pioneer and nurse, who stressed the importance of education for her children and grandchildren, and taught herself Spanish, she had never learned to read or write.   Bridget “Biddy” Mason died 1891, one of the wealthiest women in Los Angeles.  For reasons never fully explained, she was buried in an unmarked grave at Evergreen Cemetery.  While you can't visit her grave, you can visit the mini-park created in her honor.  Designed by landscape architects Katherine Spitz and Pamela Burton, an 80-foot-long poured concrete wall, created by artist Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, displays a timeline of Biddy's life, illustrated with images like wagon wheels and a midwife's bag, as well as images such as an early survey map of Los Angeles and Biddy's freedom papers, from the northernmost end of the wall with the text “Biddy Mason born a slave,” all the way down to “Los Angeles mourns and reveres Grandma Mason.”  If you're ever down near the Bradbury Building on Spring street, get some pictures for me.   Sources: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/mason-bridget-biddy-1818-1891/ https://la.curbed.com/2017/3/1/14756308/biddy-mason-california-black-history https://www.laconservancy.org/locations/biddy-mason-memorial-park https://alliesforracialjustice.org/shark-tank-in-the-1800s-black-women-reigned-in-household-inventions/ https://interestingengineering.com/black-inventors-the-complete-list-of-genius-black-american-african-american-inventors-scientists-and-engineers-with-their-revolutionary-inventions-that-changed-the-world-and-impacted-history-part-two https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/02/08/revolutionizing-cooking-mary-jones-de-leon/id=129701/ https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/lyda-newman https://interestingengineering.com/black-inventors-the-complete-list-of-genius-black-american-african-american-inventors-scientists-and-engineers-with-their-revolutionary-inventions-that-changed-the-world-and-impacted-history-part-two https://laist.com/news/la-history/biddy-mason-free-forever-the-contentious-hearing-that-made-her-a-legend-los-angeles-black-history  

Ben talks with George Maurer who works in the US Forces Radio network which is the Military. He's been stationed in many bases around the globe but most importantly, he's a local to the Los Angeles area. If you want some travel advice for LA...check it out. *the name of the market is Grand Central Market

In this week's episode of Living in the Sprawl: Southern California's Most Adventurous Podcast, host Jon Steinberg shares his list of top ten favorite Southern California cheesemongers. His list includes: Say Cheese in Silverlake, The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills, Andrew's Cheese Store in Santa Monica, Vromage in West Hollywood, DTLA Cheese in Grand Central Market, the Cheese Cave in Claremont, Monsieur Marcel at the Original Farmers Market, Venissimo Cheese in San Diego and Milk Farm in Eagle Rock.Instagram: @livinginthesprawlpodcastEmail: livinginthesprawlpodcast@gmail.comWebsite: www.livinginthesprawlpodcast.comCheck out our favorite CBD gummy company...it helps us get better sleep and stay chill. Use code "SPRAWL" for 20% off.  https://www.justcbdstore.com?aff=645Check out Goldbelly for all your favorite US foods to satisfy those cravings or bring back some nostalgia. Our favorites include Junior's Chessecakes from New York, Lou Malnati's deep dish pizza from Chicago and a philly cheesesteak from Pat's. Use the link https://goldbelly.pxf.io/c/2974077/1032087/13451 to check out all of the options and let them know we sent you.Use code "SPRAWL" for (2) free meals and free delivery on your first Everytable subscription.Support the podcast and future exploration adventures. We are working on unique perks and will give you a shout out on the podcast to thank you for your contribution!Living in the Sprawl: Southern California's Most Adventurous Podcast is on Podfanhttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/sprawl  Looking to start a podcast? Buzzsprout is the best and easiest way to launch, promote and track your podcast...trust me, I did a lot of research beforehand. Let Buzzsprout know we sent you, support the show and get a $20 Amazon gift card when you sign up.  https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1735110Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/livinginthesprawlpodcast)

We are in a series where we revisit all of the Wish You Were Heres that have been shared on our podcast, this time broken down by location. This week we're revisiting locations from Los Angeles. 4:25 Angel's Flight, Los Angeles, CA 10:40 La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, CA 15:40 The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Los Angeles, CA 24:30 The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA 28:45 Perch LA, Los Angeles, CA 30:25 Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, CA 33:10 Grand Central Market, Los Angeles, CA 34:55 Bradbury Building, Los Angeles, CA Follow us on Twitter & Instagram: @tmwypodcast  Leave us a voicemail (or text message): (406)763-8699  Email: tmwypodcast@gmail.com 

They made it to ten episodes!!! The guys celebrate by talking Halloween Horror Nights, why pins are better than buttons, the lie that is almond milk, and the surprise lightning storm that hit Los Angeles' collective social media feeds. For this episode, Rudy poses the question of where to take visiting friends and familiars on their first visit to the city, Tyler recalls the moment that made him realize he finally arrived in the City of Angels, and the guys reminisce about the before time and their totally unplanned, accidental, and amazing day across LA. Got a comment or question? Send it to toliveandtryinlapodcast@gmail.com Follow us on: Instagram: @toliveandtryinlapodcast Twitter: @toliveandtrypod

Today we’ll be talking about how the restaurant scene in Hong Kong could provide a window to the future for global reopening with chef May Chow. Early on in the pandemic, Black Sheep shared their COVID Restaurant Guidelines for Safety, and folks like May lead the way in initiating protocols to keep their diners and staff safe. May is the chef/owner behind Hong Kong’s Little Bao and Happy Paradise. She was also named Asia’s Best Female Chef in 2017, and has done pop-ups here in the US with the team behind Republique, which garnered lines that snaked around Grand Central Market. My team and I filmed our "Women in Food" series the last time we visited Hong Kong, and I was so inspired not only by her delicious take on traditional baos, but her activism and leadership. We discuss how her restaurants have pivoted to survive, what she's seeing in Hong Kong that may lead us to a more informed reopening, and how she hopes to uplift women and the LGBTQ community in Hong Kong and beyond.

This week’s Good Food is a metaphoric grilled cheese sandwich with tomato soup — an hour of comfort and distraction from a headshaking news cycle. Lydia Clarke operates DTLA Cheese with her sister in the historic Grand Central Market and describes how they flipped their business model on its head in this week’s segment of “In the Weeds.” Rachel Handler’s question of “Where has all the bucatini gone?” led her to a Nancy Drew investigation. Sophie Minchilli checks in from Rome with her version of the perfect amatriciana. Kim Prince and Lien Ta have details on the upcoming “Regarding Her,” a food festival with 100 of Los Angeles’ top female chefs and restaurateurs. Finally, citrus is in season at the Santa Monica Farmer’s Market.

Johnny Lee is the Chef/Owner of Pearl River Deli. Lee is a Los Angeles native whose humble beginnings started at McDonalds to working front of house as a waiter and restaurant manager at a Chinese restaurant in Colorado. His love for the hospitality business grew from these experiences and led him back to LA at the time when food trucks were booming. We fast-forward to Lee running the kitchens at Sticky Rice and Alvin Cailan's Eggslut in Grand Central Market before finally creating his own pop-up; which was so successful at the peak of the pandemic that it evolved into his brick and mortar restaurant located in the Far East Plaza in Chinatown. Lee also shares with us his dream of having a sustainable restaurant.

In the heart of downtown Los Angeles sits Hollywood’s undisputed architectural superstar — the Bradbury Building. The imposing structure’s character is definitive. Its origin story, however, is much murkier… How did a young draftsman design one of the most remarkable buildings in the world? Why did he never again do anything of note? Or did he? Was all his creativity spent on this one masterpiece? Was this a case of stolen intellectual property? Or could this have even been a brush with the supernatural?See images and read the show notes!Clever Confidential is our offshoot series where we dig into the lesser told stories of the darker side of design; the shadowy, sometimes sordid, tales hiding under a glossy top coat of respectable legacy.Many thanks to this episode’s guest experts Kim Cooper and Richard Schave!More about Esotouric: Although Esotouric's in-person tours have been paused since March 2020, Kim and Richard can be found every Saturday at 12p PST, presenting an all-new immersive cultural history webinar to Los Angeles history lovers around the world. Past webinar themes (all available On-Demand) include Raymond Chandler, The Black Dahlia, Angels Flight Railway, Grand Central Market, Cafeteria History and Lost Bunker Hill. And their first, naturally, was about the greatest building in Los Angeles: the Bradbury!Many thanks to our sponsors: HelixTo all our designer friends out there, Helix is one of the only “mattress in a box” companies that offers a designer trade discount—and it’s a good one at that! Just go to http://helixsleep.com/clever, sign up for the trade program, and once approved you will receive 25% off all products at all three of their brands. For regular customers, Helix is offering a great promo where you can receive up to $200 off your order plus 2 free dream pillows. Just visit http://helixsleep.com/clever to take the quiz and save up to $200 on your dream mattress SkillshareCuriosity is what drove us to create Clever and curiosity about design, creativity and the human experience is what keeps us going. We never stop learning, so whether you’re a beginner, a hobbyist, or a seasoned pro, there is always another skill to master, or technique to perfect. A new year is the perfect time to start. Skillshare is an online learning community for everyone. And they’re giving Clever listeners a free trial of their Premium Membership. No matter what 2021 brings, you can spend it creating something meaningful with Skillshare’s online classes—from design to film and photography, illustration, business, writing and more. Explore your creativity at Skillshare.com/Clever, where our listeners get a free trial of Skillshare’s Premium Membership. Start now at Skillshare.com/clever Please let us know what you think on social: Twitter, Instagram and Facebook... Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/clever. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

0:21 The Weekly Catch UpGeorge got busy this Thanksgiving and cooked up a whole pig at his house to feed a small army of holiday friends, we discuss the Mike Tyson and Jones Jr. fight exhibition recap and Greg has to let George know that he wouldn’t have literal fighting chance against a 51 year old Roy Jones Jr.. Plus, the trend of vilifying comedians for their jokes.31:57 Coffee SegmentIn this episode we s-sip on some GGET (Go Get Em Tiger) Coffee; the Caballero Catuai, Honduras, to be exact. GGET is a coffee roaster and cafe based in LA County. With humble beginnings as a pop-up coffee shop, GGET now has several locations and wide variety of roasts in the Los Angeles area.Grand Central Market (original location)317 S Broadway C19Los Angeles, CA 90013Text and ask anything at: 1-323-YAA-GGETgget.com47:40 Coffee News  The La Marzocco Linea Mini Was Barely on SaleSprudge Selected As Coffee Guides Provider For The New Apple MapsMeet Covidisor, A Practical COVID Helmet That Lets You Drink CoffeeTrinity Coffee Lightens Up With the Trinity Zero BrewerHere's What Espresso Drink To Order, Based On Your Zodiac Sign

California has a curfew now so I guess it's time to go back to high school! Just kidding, this doesn't affect us in any way. Andrew's got a tip for those of you who want a little companionship during these hard times and for the rest of your life onward. This week we checked out downtown's Grand Central Market and reviewed a couple of food places: Berlin Currywurst and Prawn. Our improv scene is then inspired by a scary story from Andrew's childhood. Checkout our WEBSITE for pictures and more recommendations. Adopt A Pet.com Best Friends Adoption LA Donate and become a subscriber mentioned on the show Watch our YOUTUBE CHANNEL for more comedy www.Frontrowfilmroast.com 

Another day in the life of the Cool Ass Black Woman,  conversation with Ahjahna and discussing our latest event Bike To The Ballot.  We thank The New Black Era, for providing all voting materials for the voters lounge. We also want to thank Ride On! Bike Shop for providing the space for us to produce Bike To The Ballot event in Leimert Park. Thank you Ride With Us Bike Club for leading the ride to the Grand Central Market in Downtown Los Angeles. Thank you to all the sponsors who made the day amazing: Boxed Water and T-Mobile Lastly, thank you to ALL of the vendors    Stay Connected:  Social Media: @CoolAssBlackWoman  www.coolassblackwoman.com

Goodbyes can be so hard sometimes. That’s why we’re not saying them! But this is our LA-Chef Special Season Finale, and it’s a doozy ladies and germs! Sami has a great chat with Ilan Hall (@ilanhall) and Rahul Khopkar (@rajamafool), the creators of Ramen Hood (@ramenhood) - a Vegan Ramen Spot in the Grand Central Market of DTLA. They discuss everything from starting the business, to the craziest, gamiest, exotic meats they’ve tried and Ilan’s chef game show “Knife Fight.” Plus, we get our grand finale of the Milkshake Break, with the BEST ONE IN TOWN being made by one of our very favorite returning guests… Tune in! Check out more on the Ramen Hood web-site: www.ramenhood.com Check out the show Knife Fight here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrYyEvGG4MoThanks for listening! To find cooking lessons, chef tips, and the Vegan in a Weekend cook book, visit www.lavenderlunch.com. Lavender Lunch is created by Sami Pollak, produced and engineered by Cameron Tagge (@camtagge). Thank you for joining us on this adventure. Connect with us on Instagram @veganinaweekend

Jonas Never has become L.A.'s unofficial sports muralist with his unforgettable work displayed across the city. From the Kobe Bryant tribute in Grand Central Market, to his most recent Joe Kelly pouty face mural, Never's art has had fans lined up for blocks just to take a photo. We spoke with Never about his inspiration for his iconic murals From Kobe's, Kelly's, the infamous LeBron James "King James" mural and more. Never details what the Dodgers' Kelly mural meant for the city in a time when a pandemic needed a ray of light to shine through, fans reception and even Kelly's reception himself. ----- Thank you for listening, we love vibing with our L.A. Weekly listeners and L.A. sports fans. Keep supporting and make sure to follow @laweekly on Instagram and Twitter. If you love the show, please make sure to show us some love on the Apple Podcasts store. ----- Your Guest: Jonas Never (@never1959) Your Hosts: Evan Lancaster (@thatsthatfuego) Isai "Izzy" Rocha (@izzy_serious) Mixed & Mastered by: Isai Rocha Publisher: Brian Calle (@briancalle)

Guests include a young religious mother and father, a trio of delivery women on an exciting birthday vacation, and our pal Whitmer Thomas! Recorded next to Grand Central Market in Downtown Los Angeles.

Kyle Glanville and Charles Babinski have spent most of their adult lives entrenched in the coffee business. They each even hold United States Barista Championship titles. The duo started G&B Coffee as a pop-up at Los Angeles’ super popular Sqirl back in 2012. They opened a permanent location of G&B at Grand Central Market the next year, and shortly after they launched the first of their now seven Go Get Em Tiger cafes. This caffeinated pair show no signs of slowing down, and we caught up with them to see what they’ve got on the horizon. Los Angeles native Will Wiesenfeld entered everyone’s musical consciousness in 2010 under the moniker, Baths. The following year, he stopped into our Brooklyn studio to gnosh on pizza, and to also give us a listen to the electro pop sound that had garnered him wide attention. Check out Baths’ latest single, “Clarence Difference.”Snacky Tunes is powered by Simplecast. 

Jeff Buck sits down with Mario Caballero to talk about Carmel -- a small format bloomy rind triple crème sheep and cow’s milk cheese from Stepladder Creamery in Cambria, CA. The goats at Stepladder only produce milk 9 months out of the year, they created this new small format cheese to fill that 3 month gap when they arent producing and used sheep's milk instead. As always the podcast ends with some #CheesyMoments. This episode Mario shares one involving memories of sharing cheese with his dad. Follow @saycheesepodEmail: saycheesepodcast@gmail.comor leave us a positive rating/review!!Cheese provided by @dtlacheeseCheck out our weekly comedy show, #SayCheeseShowcase, every Tuesday at the Grand Central Market in Los Angeles - 7pm - Free admission

Jeff Buck sits down with Danielle Firestone to talk about Wabash Cannonball -- a pasteurized goat's milk cheese from Capriole Goat Cheeses in Indiana.After hearing Jeff speculate about it in a previous episode, Danielle immediately wanted to inform Jeff on what Wawa (the American chain convenience store) actually is. Jeff then briefly revisits information on Capriole Goat Cheeses, asks Danielle what she would put on her hometown flag, discuss the origins of the Wabash Cannonball's mystical hobo train name, and rate the cheese on a classic scale system. As always the podcast ends with some #CheesyMoments. This episode Danielle shared one involving a horrible business name and another that involves classicism in a cheese museum.Follow @saycheesepodEmail: saycheesepodcast@gmail.comor leave us a positive rating/review!!Check out our weekly comedy show, #SayCheeseShowcase, every Tuesday at the Grand Central Market in Los Angeles - 7pm - Free admission

Jeff Buck sits down with cheesemonger Charles Davis to talk about Detroit Street Brick -- a pasteurized goat's milk cheese from Zingerman's Creamery in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Charles briefly discusses what his time in Ann Arbor was like. They get into the history of Zingerman's and how that name even came to be. After eating the cobble stone shaped cheese, Jeff rallies for someone to make a Cheddar Bob (8 Mile) named cheese. As always the podcast ends with some #CheesyMoments. This episode Charles shares one involving Cameron Diaz and Jimmy Kimmel Follow @saycheesepodEmail: saycheesepod@gmail.comor leave us a positive rating/review!!Check out our weekly comedy show, #SayCheeseShowcase, every Tuesday at the Grand Central Market in Los Angeles - 7pm - Free admission

Jeff Buck sits down with comedian Justin Lain to talk about Brie Aux Truffes a pasteurized cow's milk cheese from France. The podcast is recorded during the National Championship game and this cheese is eaten as a celebration. Justin shares how he didn't understand cheese until he got older. They both hype themselves up for the inevitable truffle attack. As always the podcast ends with some #CheesyMoments. This episode Justin shares his memories at a classic late night Chicago "cheesy" establishment.Follow @saycheesepodEmail: saycheesepod@gmail.comor leave us a positive rating/review!!Check out our weekly comedy show, The Say Cheese Showcase, every Tuesday at the Grand Central Market in Los Angeles - 7pm - Free admission

Part 2 of Pops’ Los Angeles trip continues with a Paramount film studio tour, breweries, and the Grand Central Market. It’s tough to avoid greediness. After Orlando took down the Lakers at Staples Center, the 2nd night of the back-to-back ended in defeat at the hands of Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers. The Magic are currently 20-22, still the 7th seed in the Eastern Conference, and 2-2 on this six-game road trip. Steve Clifford’s squad is already down a true backup power forward (Gary Clark on a 10-day contract doesn’t count), and the roster could be in desperate need of a backup point guard as D.J. Augustin will be sidelined at least three weeks with Michael Carter-Williams still not having returned. #MagicAboveAll #LetsGoMagic Warning: Adult Language

30. In this episode we hack one of the most iconic spots in all of Los Angeles, the incredible Grand Central Market in Downtown Los Angeles.  A big part of the amazing story of Downtown L.A. revitalization over the past 10 years is tied in with the resurgence of Grand Central Market as well. Listen to this episode and find out what makes Grand Central Market so special and discover our favorite places to eat and secret GCM tips and hacks.  You can find out more about Media and get his Downtown insider tips on his Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dtlainsider/ or his Youtube page.  Please take a moment to subscribe to our Podcast and you can find the new LA Hacker Journal here: https://lifehacksla.com/journal --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lifehacksla/message

V House’s Jaime Proano recorded live at Grand Central Market, Los Angeles California 10/10/2019 The post V HOUSE Radio 087 | Jaime Proano appeared first on V HOUSE Radio.

Guests include a New Zealander who now lives in Beijing, a guy about to go on a first date after a recent break-up, and our friends Gus Johnson and Eddy Burback. Recorded in front of Grand Central Market in Downtown Los Angeles.

Guests include a water treatment worker, a group of young models, and a very outgoing pornographic actress who randomly DMed Andrew asking to be a guest. Recorded in front of Grand Central Market in Downtown Los Angeles.

Matt discusses Santa Monica's version of Grand Central Market, which will be a mix of food, retail, office and a garden. The former Fred Segal (ice rink) building at 5th and Broadway will become a mixed use housing project. 84' high, approximately 250 housing units, subterranean parking, restaurants and retail. The other former Fred Segal building across the street on the west side of 5th will not change significantly, and will become a City Target. The former Whole Foods location at 5th and Wilshire will become a CVS Pharmacy. 

Recorded in front of Grand Central Market in Downtown Los Angeles.

Recorded in front of Grand Central Market in Downtown Los Angeles.

Welcome to the Travelman Podcast, my name is Ben and I’ll be your travel buddy, I hope you’re doing fine and have a trip on the horizon, if you’re new, well hello and thanks for joining me!!! Today I have a great podcast lined up for you. It features a really cool and interesting guy I met in DTLA last year by the name of Joel. He’s a Theatre Critic for the OC Weekly. We met while eating some delicious food at Grand Central Market, I think the place was called Prawn Coastal, he was drinking a beer, I was drinking a beer, as all Californians go they’re welcoming and nice to chat to. We started talking about travel and he told me that he was going to Hawaii the following week and that would mean he had ticked off every state in the US of A. That’s no mean feat! So, sit back and hear Joel’s reasoning and logic behind leaving the great state of Hawaii till last and how he managed to conquer all 50 states of America. There’s a language warning on this episode also as Joel has a bit of a potty mouth and I didn’t want to spend hours editing out the word f*#% and whatever else may slip out of his mouth!!!! Also, this is a two-parter. Be sure to listen to part 2 in a few week’s time!   Timestamps Part 1: Intro to the show 3:42 – Best three states in the USA 6:45 – One great thing in three states 12:56 – Best food, New Orleans, Louisiana and Halloween 19:11 – What state has the best beer? Craft beer revolution 23:04 – The Don and his golf course (Trump National), fun, charismatic and full of shit 27:29 – Pennsylvania, the Amish and the Mennonites 28:32 – Favourite state (California) and least favourite state (Kansas) 31:58 – Seeing the Capital Cities that are mostly bland except for Austin 33:11 – Reciting the 50 states of the USA, Maine is intriguing 43:21 – Travelling with a Donald Duck PEZ dispenser story 45:18 – Talking about the Florida Keys and the Everglades 49:00 - Outro to the show, I hope you enjoyed the podcast   Additional Information: Grand Central Market: https://www.grandcentralmarket.com/ The OC Weekly: https://ocweekly.com/ Joel Beers info: https://muckrack.com/joel-beers Joel Beers on Instagram: @joelbeers Joel Beers on Twitter: @jobeers   Follow Travelman Podcast: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/travelman-podcast/id1281446908 Libsyn: https://travelmanpodcast.libsyn.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benthetravelman/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/travelmanpodcast/?hl=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/TravelmanPod Tune In: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Travel/Travelman-Podcast-p1103948/ Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/ben-dow/travelman-podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3cYw4pCrK3C-Rty3zmw-eQ Travelman Podcast Website: www.travelmanpodcast.com Travelman Podcast email: travelmanpodcast@gmail.com

Welcome to the Travelman Podcast, my name is Ben and I host this cool little podcast. Today, Mandy my wife and I will be your travel guide. We talk about five places to travel to in May. I hope you find this guide useful and enjoyable. So here it is. This is my opinion from my own experience, I’ve also compiled this list through research using the interwebs. Enjoy the podcast. In no particular order.   Timestamps: Intro to the show 1:35 – Bali, Indonesia 10:00 – Los Angeles, USA 25:42 – Cairns, Australia 34:40 – Florence, Italy 43:53– Lima, Peru   Additional Information: Great Barrier Reef: https://www.barrierreef.org/ Green Island: https://www.greenislandresort.com.au/ Jazz Reggae Festival: http://www.jazzreggaefest.com/ Grand Central Market: https://www.grandcentralmarket.com/ Larco Museum: http://www.museolarco.org/en/ Ufizzi Gallery: https://www.uffizi.it/en How to Peru: https://www.howtoperu.com/   Follow Travelman Podcast: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/travelman-podcast/id1281446908 Libsyn: https://travelmanpodcast.libsyn.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benthetravelman/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/travelmanpodcast/?hl=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/TravelmanPod Tune In: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Travel/Travelman-Podcast-p1103948/ Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/ben-dow/travelman-podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3cYw4pCrK3C-Rty3zmw-eQ Travelman Podcast Website: www.travelmanpodcast.com  

Jordan, Dave, and Adam crawl through the 102-year-old downtown LA market, stuffing themselves with bagels, pupusas, shrimp, pig face fried rice, grilled cheese, ice cream, and (disgustingly?) more. The Air Jordan GCM Crawl 1. The Big Poppa at Wexler’s Deli 2. Chicharrones at Villa Moreliana 3. Pupusas at Sarita’s Pupuseria 4. The Patrona Burger at La Tostaderia 5. Sisig Fried Rice & Pinoy BBQ at SARI SARI Store 6. Cheese Plate and Grilled Cheese at DTLA Cheese 7. Vanilla Ice Cream & Chocolate Chip Sea Salt Cookie Sandwich at McConnell’s

Recorded in front of Grand Central Market in Downtown Los Angeles.

I’ve just come back from the states, actually just on Sunday, when I was supposed to release an episode. I thought I’d release this little episode just to give you a taste of what I ate in the US and what I am going to do in Bali. The US was great and always feel a bit sad leaving a place that I like so much. It was my first time to Miami and I didn’t really like it too much, South Beach is where I stayed and it was a bad move on my part as it’s full of posers and the type of people that I’d never be seen dead with. New York was very cool, I ate some great food there and enjoyed Brooklyn for the first time. Los Angeles is my favourite city in the US for many reasons and reasons I’m not gonna list it now. Also, went to San Diego, which was great as Chris from Yellow Productions drove us around, one day around Orange County and the other day around San Diego. My wife and I also drove all the way down to Key West from South Beach. Key West is awesome. I love it. The drive was very nice also. And now I have my Bali trip coming up and I’m doing this holiday to test the theory that; Is having a holiday after a holiday a good thing or not needed, because you always hear of people that have had busy holiday’s like I have, sightseeing and walking many many kilometres/miles each day. My America trip was full on and we did 14 to 15kms per day of walking, so about 15,000 steps on average. All that fatty food I ate and I didn’t put on a kilogram. In Bali, I’ll be relaxing by a pool with my brothers and my sister-in-law and my wife Mandy, and just drinking a lot so I think in the 10 days that I’ll be in Indonesia I may put on more weight than what I did in the US. In America I really enjoyed a host of great food. I went to some pretty well known food establishments. I’m listing the places that made an impact on me, positive or negative. Here’s my take on the food I ate in USA. Timestamps: Intro to the show Los Angeles 6:17 Orange County and San Diego 18:12 New York 21:35 Miami and Key West 27:26 Bali info 30:45 Additional Information: Los Angeles Eggslut, 1611 Pacific Avenue, Los Angeles in Venice Beach Lemonade, 1661 Abbot Kinney Boulevard, Los Angeles Wexler’s Deli at Grand Central Market, 317 S Broadway, Los Angeles Sticky Rice at Grand Central Market, 317 S Broadway, Los Angeles Prawn Coastal at Grand Central Market, 317 S Broadway, Los Angeles Wurstküche Restaurant, 800 E 3rd St, Los Angeles In-N-Out, 9149 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Los Angeles The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co., 8732 S Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles The Original Farmers Market, 6333 W 3rd St, Los Angeles Orange County and San Diego Lucille’s Smokehouse Bar-B-Que, location unknown Crack Shack, 2266 Kettner Blvd, San Diego New York Shake Shack, Madison Ave & E 23rd St, New York Dominique Ansel Bakery, 189 Spring Street (between Sullivan and Thompson), New York Le Relais de L'Entrecote, 590 Lexington Avenue, New York Friedman’s Lunch at Chelsea Market, 75 9th Ave, New York Stella34 Trattoria, 151 W 34th St, New York Grimaldi’s, 656 6th Ave, New York Miami and Key West Taquiza, 1506 Collins Ave, Miami Beach Puerto Sagua Restaurant, 700 Collins Ave, Miami Beach Blue Heaven, 729 Thomas St, Key West Southernmost Beach Café, 1405 Duval St, Key West Follow Travelman Podcast: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/travelman-podcast/id1281446908 SoundCloud: https://m.soundcloud.com/user-265082759 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benthetravelman/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/travelmanpodcast/?hl=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/TravelmanPod Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/ben-dow/travelman-podcast Travelman Podcast Website: https://travelmanpodcast.wixsite.com/travelman (New website coming soon via www.travelmanpodcast.com)

A fun video that shows still photo highlights from the exploration of downtown Los Angeles. It includes the Angel's Flight, Hotel Figueroa and Grand Central Market. Then you get a live video of Brad telling you about the $23 burger.

In episode 59 Brad Fanshaw, Dave Marek and Heather Storm explore food and drink in downtown Los Angeles (DTLA). They begin with spicy bloody Mary's in the newly renovated Hotel Figueroa bar. Next it is a side trip for a ride on the historic Angel's Flight railway to Bunker Hill. After they have explored the Grand Central Market our trio sits down for a food and beer. Have a seat and learn some history, food options and our hashtag segments including; #TravelLikeAMan, #PartyLikeAMan, #DrinkLikeAMan and #BeEntertainedLikeAMan. SUBSCRIBE on iTunes and you could win a Man Seeks Adventure T   VISIT: www.ManSeeksAdventure.com  

*We apologize for the delay in releasing this final episode. There was an issue with Wade's sound that we were hoping to fix, but alas, this is the best we could do. Also maybe we didn't want it to be over. ;) Enjoy! REALITY BYTES is a show about sex, love, relationships & dating in the digital age, hosted by Courtney Kocak & Steve Hernandez, produced in partnership with JASH. For the 22nd (& final!) episode of season 3, the duo are thrilled to welcome their significant others, comedian & Who's Your Sign? podcast co-host Julia Loken & restaurateur Wade McElroy, to discuss meet cute stories, early relationship misfires, the monogamy vs. boyfriend/girlfriend conversation & what it's like when your partner has a sex & dating podcast.  This episode is brought to you by the Fab Skin, Hot Bodies with Dr. Jeannette Graf podcast & FabFitFun (go to fabfitfun.com & use code REALITY to get $10 off your first FabFitFun box). And if you like good eats, check out Wade's restaurants: Horsethief BBQ at Grand Central Market, Cafe Birdie in Highland Park & – coming soon – Ma'am Sir in Silver Lake. Please rate & review to tell us what you love!

Toot on a Flute in a Suit! Were back in Los Angeles and Huell is flyin' all over the city in episode 6. First he stops off at LAX to visit the Theme Building, then visits the oldest "building" at UCLA, then off to Grand Central Market, and ending it all with the last remaining grapefruit tree in Downtown LA. This episode is jam packed and full of some tart, yet sweet California's Gold!   Video: California's Gold 207 LA Adventures LAX Theme Building UCLA Bridge  Grand Central Market Japanese American Cultural Community Center

This week on The Stew we welcome Jordan Okun, a food writer based here in Los Angeles who is not only a talented eater, but a Stew fan, so he's able to slide right in with Jason and Andre's pod sensibilities. We chat about “MajorDomo," the new Momofuku restaurant here in LA, the bread at Cheesecake Factory, the best slice of Pizza in LA, Jonathan Gold still at the top? Grand Central Market, what's a better idea for a first date, bar or restaurant, and so much more!

On this episode of #SoLA, Charlie and Camille talk about everyone’s favorite topic- food!- wtih Eater LA’s Senior Editor and #SoLA Super Fan, Farley Elliot! Farley is like a sports reporter but for food, so lots of restaurants and LA specialties come up, including: Sqirl, Grand Central Market, Eggslut, Harold & Belle’s, Bar Covell, Alimento, Ramen Bangaichi, El Chato, Cosa Buona, Bludso’s, Howlin’ Ray’s, Art’s Famous Chilli Dogs and so many more. Farley recommends local road trips to his favorite dining neighborhood in San Diego, Tijuana, the Valle de Guadalupe wine region of Baja, Mexico, and Copper Top BBQ in Lone Pine, CA. They also discuss Roy Choi, an Israeli guy named Burt who sells brisket out of his back yard, and perrenial #SoLA topics hot chicken, shared plates and pho vs. ramen… also, racism… because America. Watch out: nobody’s steering this ship!

Adele Yellin, director of Los Angeles' 100-year-old Grand Central Market, talks about one of the city's few true civic spaces and how it draws together people and provides them with a wide range of food and experiences.

PiCast Episode 73 - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Scott and Brittany went to see The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time at the Ahmanson theater in LA. We give a very SPOILER filled review. It was a great emotional story about a young man on the spectrum and a mystery surrounding the death of a neighborhood dog.   We also got to experience the Grand Central Market a few blocks over. We’ll definitely go back there! We had a great burger and some delicious coconut soft serve.   Have you seen the play? Ever had coconut ice cream? We’d love to hear from you!   Contact us at PiDayCosplay@gmail.com Leave us a Voicemail on the Pi Line 626-66-PIDAY https://www.facebook.com/PiDayCosplay Follow us on Twitter & Instagram: @PiDayCosplay or Tumblr http://pidaycosplay.tumblr.com #PiCast #PiDayCosplay #PiDayWedding #PiCast #PiDayCosplay #PiDayWedding   On this episode: #TheCuriousIncidentoftheDogintheNight-time #Ahmanson #LA #Theater #Theatre #Play #Autism #GrandCentralMarket #LosAngeles #Coconut

Sherra Lasley got her start in the restaurant game as a blizzard master at the Dairy Queen in Bettendorf, Iowa, eventually graduating to bar manager at the famous IO theater in Chicago. We talk about the perils of Postmates, our escape route from Grand Central Market, and her extensive comedy accomplishments, including her recent pilot. Enjoy!

Located Inside the Grand Central Market in Downtown LA, Madcapra is a produce-driven, untraditional falafel shop created by Chefs Sarah Hymanson and Sara Kramer. Our falafel is made from organic, locally-sourced chickpeas from Koda Farms. We take a lot of pride in the quality of our ingredients and source as much of our product as possible from sustainable growers in Southern California. Why? Because vegetables. Cameron Orr is a looping artist that uses live-recorded layers of electronically affected violin and synthesizer sounds to create cinematic, orchestral compositions that combine classical, jazz, and modern indie-pop influences.

Happy Mother's Day! We recorded this episode live from Grand Central Market in Downtown Los Angeles. This is the place to have the munchies! Take a walking brunch, spend the afternoon on Horse Thief BBQ's patio & so much more! Guests: Fabulous GCM Vendors! So many choices it was hard to choose, so listen for a taste of one of the yummiest culinary hang outs in town.

Food Glorious Food... This week, a paid of chefs that make dishes sing!Executive Chef Bruce Kalman of Union in Pasadena, California and Knead & Co. Pasta Bar + Market at Grand Central Market, DTLA and Chef de Cuisine David Hands of Bouchon Bistro, Beverly Hills, California join us.

Snacky Tunes is back for 2016 as host Greg Bresnitz welcomes Peter Meehan, Editor of Lucky Peach Magazine and musical guest Loose Buttons to the studio. Peter is the editorial director and cofounder of Lucky Peach. A former columnist for the New York Times, he is also the coauthor of numerous cookbooks, including the New York Times bestselling Momofuku, The Frankies Spuntino Kitchen Companion and Cooking Manual. He is also the author of Lucky Peach’s debut cookbook, Lucky Peach Presents: 101 Easy Asian Recipes. He resides in Manhattan with his wife and their two daughters and shares his latest experiences at the quarterly publication and plus details surrounding the EATING OUT LOUD event in Los Angeles. An evening of performances, food, and drinks inspired by the content of Lucky Peach, hosted by Lucky Peach editors Peter Meehan and Chris Ying, the event consists of two parts: a series of readings from Lucky Peach at the Million Dollar Theater by David Chang, Roy Choi, Kim Gordon, Jonathan Gold, Amelia Gray, and Eric Wareheim, followed by a reception at the historic Grand Central Market. Unfortunately the event is sold out, but listen in for details on how to win tickets to the coveted event! A troupe of native New Yorkers (well we actually feel bad lying to you, one of them is from Connecticut), the quartet known as Loose Buttons was struck by the energy buzzing around The Big Apple at some point in their early adolescent years and channeled that inspiration into endless hours practicing in their parent’s garage. Loose Buttons have been together since 2012 and have played around New York City and Miami a heck of a lot. Three of them went to college in Miami to pursue careers as dubstep DJs, but eventually returned to their roots of indie rock and roll. The newest single “Thrill” came out in October and the band is planning to release their next EP in the Spring of 2016.

It's a Food Feast this week with guests, award-winning cookbook Author & Writer, Amelia Saltsman and rockin' Chef Bruce Kalman of Union Restaurant in Pasadena, CA and soon to open Knead & Co. Pasta Bar + Market in Grand Central Market, Downtown Los Angeles.

An oral history of my Teeth. Yes, teeth! Just one of life's wonders and horrors that we all share. And you can't talk about teeth without talking about Thunderdome, science and technology, surviving on 2 liter bottles of Coke and bowls full of jellybeans, stumps and crowns, implants (dental, not breast), royal decree, things you think are crazy until you do them yourself, being hypnotized out of your money, my psychology in particular or anyone's psychology in general, being busy, going to Iceland, flying vs. the bus and the Grand Central Market downtown.

BFFs and West Bev-heads Ben Lyons and Mike Kassar join The Blaze with Lizzie and Kat podcast this week to talk a lot about a lifetime of loving Beverly Hills 90210, and a little bit about the episode “Spring Training.” Ben writes for The Players' Tribune and is the host of ESPN's podcast The Lyons Den. Mike is a regular Nat Bussichio, owning Wexler's Deli in Downtown LA's Grand Central Market - our fav! What we were drinking: a variety of beersWhat we were eating: popcorn

This episode Chris and I chat about fondant potatoes, oily fish, Evan Kleiman, Grand Central Market, Jewish Delis, Acai Bowls, smoothies, cheese, ice cream, wetting the bed, beef and pickle tacos, New York favs, and so much more!

Need a change of scenery and some new brunch options? Grab your wallet and sneak out from behind the Orange Curtain for a little sight seeing in the world famous City of Angels. This episode is chock-full of tasty tips like: Spotting celebrities while hiking Runyon Canyon Park Chewing some tasty eats at Grand Central Market, Irv's Burgers, Salt's Cure, The Golden State & Belcampo Meat Co. Guzzling suds at Horse Thief & Eagle Rock Brewery Exploring low-brow art at Kat Von D's Wonderland Gallery, La Luz de Jesus Gallery & Subliminal Projects Check out this episode's blog post & video for more info. Join the adventure! Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio. Check out videos, pics, resources & more! 2GirlsTrippin.com | YouTube | FaceBook | Instagram | Twitter

Colin Marshall sits down in Culver City with Matthew Kang, food writer, editor of Eater LA, author of the blog Mattatouille, and proprietor of the Scoops Westside ice cream shop. They discuss the difference between eating on Los Angeles' west side and elsewhere in the city; how he manages to sell that health-conscious region on ice cream; the willingness of eaters, nowadays, to get back to the occasional bit of unhealthiness; how he prides himself on introducing unusual flavors to the public through the friendly medium of ice cream, even when kids' parents insist they "just get the chocolate"; how he got into food writing through Yelp during his previous career as a banking analyst; his explorations of Los Angeles through the Zagat guide and as a "hugely involved commenter" on Eater; what he experienced on his Koreatown days in childhood, an ideal place for him as it provides "Korea, but not in Korea"; what it meant to him when he discovered a time capsule of a greasy spoon buried in a Beverly Hills office building; the parts of town that put up with "a little less B.S." from customization-crazed customers; the balance between "I want it the way I want it" and "Just give me what's best"; the conversations he had with his parents and fellow Asian Americans when he left his banking career behind for a live of travel and food; the shift in downtown's Grand Central Market, and what it says about Los Angeles' wider social and food cultures; how your background matters less here, and how long that might last; food as his conduit for understanding not just Los Angeles but Seoul, Istanbul, Chicago, and Nagoya; how the current coffee-culture boom manifests itself here, where he divides time into two eras, before Intelligentsia and after; how Angelenos can make sure not to provincialize themselves; the exhilaration he feels at certain perfect "Midnight City" moments in his car; and how Los Angeles offers a seemingly infinite variety of places you should eat, but no one place you must.

Grand Central Market (317 S. Broadway)

Grand Central Market (317 S. Broadway)