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Huell Howser: not shy but retiring ... on Off-Ramp for December 1, 2012

Huell retired after 20 years of California's Gold ... Countercultural Paul Krassner remembers getting stoned with Groucho, John, and Yoko; celebrating the dean of radio DJs, Art LaBoe, 87; another Instagram winner!

Members of the gay activist group March On conducts a "die-in" on the sidewalk at West Hollywood City Hall to protest against County Supervisor Mike Antonovich's negative AIDS views. The group outlined bodies in chalk then wrote in the names of AIDS victims. Photograph dated October 23, 1988.
Members of the gay activist group March On conducts a "die-in" on the sidewalk at West Hollywood City Hall to protest against County Supervisor Mike Antonovich's negative AIDS views. The group outlined bodies in chalk then wrote in the names of AIDS victims. Photograph dated October 23, 1988.
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1988 WeHo AIDS protest (Paul Chinn/LAPL-Herald-Examiner)
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Huell retired after 20 years of California's Gold ... Countercultural Paul Krassner remembers getting stoned with Groucho, John, and Yoko; celebrating the dean of radio DJs, Art LaBoe, 87; another Instagram winner!

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50 years after it disappeared, a local art dealer has given the unfinished theme park, Bible Storyland, a brand new afterlife.
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His shows told the stories of thousands of Californians and helped millions more learn about California's history. He's reportedly retiring, but he's left his mark on the state.
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Kevin Roderick remembers back more than twenty years, when Huell Howser came West as a general assignment reporter for Channel 2, and then found his niche on KCET doing the long-form visits he became famous for.
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I especially wanted to know the most common thing people have him say. Turns out, some people are trying to break up Mr and Mrs Claus.
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The winner of KPCC's "Perfect Strangers" Instagram contest talks about her winning image and explains street photography.
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When they both took LSD, Groucho was seeing visions of gothic cathedrals, but Krassner saw cockroaches; and when John and Yoko were smoking their pot/opium joints, Yoko said, "Put another cookie on the fire."