Ep. 7—The examiner’s 1944 moral crusade against barfly women: Women in saloons—the shame of my sex PT. 1
In this episode of The Secret History of Frisco, we're diving into the San Francisco Examiner's sensational 1944 moral crusade against Barfly Women and the threat they posed to the social fabric of San Francisco. The paper hired the renowned 86-year-old author and...
Jimmie Tarantino Pt. 2: D.A. Thomas Lynch Spells Out Jimmie’s Scams in Post-WWII Frisco
TRANSCRIPT: Welcome to the Secret History of Frisco Podcast. I’m your host, Knox Bronson. I have a fun episode today, a bit of a departure in that it’s a verbatim reading of a portion of an oral history, the interviewing of former California Attorney...
Episode 5: introducing jimmie tarantino part 1—when frank sinatra and mickey cohen invested in hollywood nite life magazine
This episode of "The Secret History of Frisco" podcast introduces listeners to Jimmie Tarantino, a man described as a "louse, a blowhard, a barely literate, anti-Communist shake-down artist." The episode delves into Tarantino's early life in East Orange, New...
Bonus ep. 5 Call It Frisco Part 2—sally stanford weighs in on the eternal conflict
TRANSCRIPT: Welcome to the Secret History of Frisco Podcast. I’m your host, Knox Bronson. We are going to revisit the question of “FRISCO” today. Some people are quite passionate about it. This is the “Call It FRISCO, Part 2” Episode. Ever since I got sober many years...
Bonus ep. 4—FRISCO NOIR With Rachel Walther—The Maltese Falcon No.1 (1931) & No.2 (1941) and Dark Passage (1947)
TRANSCRIPT Knox(train chugging) (bell ringing) (horn blowing) Frisco: The Secret History, a podcast. (instrumental music) Hi, this is Knox Bronson at The Secret History of Frisco podcast, and we have a really great, uh, episode for you today. We're talking to Rachel...
Ep. 4—The Story of Johnny Ochsner, The Rich Kid Romeo, and the Lovesick Stowaways
TRANSCRIPT Hi, this is Knox Bronson at the Secret History of Frisco podcast. We have a rather remarkable episode today. It is the story of an Oakland man, two women who followed him across the Pacific as stowaways, one from San Francisco to Hawaii, one from Hawaii...
Bonus Ep. 3—when Sally Stanford Kicked Humphrey Bogart Out of Her Flagship Pleasure Palace at 1144 PINE in 1941
TRANSCRIPT Hi, this is Knox Bronson at The Secret History of Frisco podcast. This bonus episode is about legends: specifically the infamous San Francisco madam Sally Stanford, movie star Humphrey Bogart, and how she barred him from her infamous bordello, and...
The Secret Life of Bob Patterson, The Charming Ex-Con Who Terrorized High Society With His Column, “Freddie Francisco Observes” In The 1940s
TRANSCRIPT: Hi, this is Knox Bronson at The Secret History of Frisco podcast. I have a great episode for you today featuring one of the most wickedly intelligent and delightfully roguish writers ever to grace the pages of a San Francisco Newspaper: Bob Patterson. Bob...
Bonus episode No. 2—Interview with paul drexler, author of “notorious san francisco—True tales of crime, passion, and murder”
In this episode, I talk to author and historian Paul Drexler about the crime and vice rooted in the very birth of San Francisco and their evolution and influence in the city for the next hundred years.