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Jockey Russell Baze Has Ridden in 50,000 Races – That’s 1.5 Times Around the World
This week we are in Albany, California to see the ponies run at Golden Gate Fields. This is the only major racetrack in Northern California and thoroughbreds first started racing here back in 1941. This track has seen some truly great racehorses over the years including Noor, Citation and one of the sport’s most popular […]
Terry Fong is Leading NASA’s New Push into Space Exploration
Terry Fong is leading NASA’s new push into space exploration. Long gone is its legendary space shuttle program. The future belongs to Terry’s Robotics Intelligence Group. His team designs everything from land rovers to droids that help astronauts aboard the International Space Station. We’ll step inside the lab where they’re creating NASA’s latest robots. Astronauts […]
Historic Rail Line Opens in Santa Cruz
This week we are in Santa Cruz aboard Iowa Pacific for a ride on the newly re-opened 32-mile Branch Rail Line in Santa Cruz County. This is the most recent train to rumble through the central coast but certainly not the first. Today we’re going to learn a bit about local railroad history, from Sandy […]
Chef Phan Takes Us Behind the Scenes at The Slanted Door
This week we are at International Culinary Center in Campbell. Have we got some treats for you! First we’re going to learn to make a famous french pastry with an American twist…..and plenty of chocolate. Will also meet three of the finest and chefs in the Bay Area – Santa Cruz’s Reilly Meehan, the very […]
Two of the World’s Best Ping-Pong Players Train in Milpitas
At the India Community Center in Milpitas, California, Table Tennis is the sport that rules the hardwood. You may know it as “Ping Pong” but this cutthroat game played by young kids with a “take no prisoners attitude,” has captured city. Two of the ICC’s finest players, Lily Zhang and Timothy Wang were members of […]
America’s Cup Winner, John Kostecki Prepares to Defend Title in San Francisco Bay
Professional sailor and America’s Cup winner John Kostecki has been a force in his sport for the past thirty years. Raised near Marin and a master of the tricky San Francisco Bay waters, Kostecki is a former Olympic sailor who captured a silver medal in the Soiling Class at the 1988 Games in South Korea. […]
Spy for a Day-a Look at Antique Spy Gear
This week we are at History where we’ll take a look at San Jose’s famous Electric Tower, just one of the many amazing things you’ll discover walking around grounds here. The tower we’ll show you is a replica of the original, which was built in 1881 to ‘light up’ the downtown area. It was hailed […]
The Only Full Color Footage from Inside a Japanese Internment Camp
The film posted here, Dave Tatsuno Movies and Memories, documents an important piece of American and Bay Area history. In 1942 about 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast of the United States were placed in “war relocation camps.” Japanese-American businessman, Dave Masaharu Tatsuno and his family were relocated to the […]
Melani Clark, One of Very Few Women to Run a Railroad.
Melani Clark is the CEO of Roaring Camp Railroads in Felton, California. One of the just a few women in the country running a rail line. Founded by her father, Norman Clark, Roaring Camp is 180 acre historic, old western theme park. Complete with several 100 year old steam engines. And Clark is not just […]
Local Doctor’s “Solar Suitcase” Saves Lives Daily
In 2008, Dr. Laura Stachel went to Nigeria to find out why so many women were dying there during childbirth. She was flabbergasted to discover that in many areas, women were giving birth without electricity – sometimes in near total darkness. Doctors and midwives often helped delivered babies with only a cell phone or lantern […]
