E25 ICF Paul Napora - All about Lomita, History, Pizza, & Rock n’ Roll

Paul Napora is a historian of everything Lomita, a small city in the South Bay area of Los Angeles. He is also an educator, artist, and rock n' roller with some great stories from his pizza delivery days. He is the creator and curator of two pages on META (formerly FaceBook): Lomita's Distant Past w/Pictures and Old Postcards from Southern California.

SHOW NOTES:

LomitaCity.com: https://lomitacity.com/

Lomita's Distant Past w/Pictures| META: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2072129686424525

Old Postcards of Southern California| META: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1565048520313077

The Hot & Tot Restaurant: https://www.thehotntot.com/

Zampreini Field/Torrance Airport| Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamperini_Field

Manzanar National Historic Site (Because we briefly mentioned the Japanese detainment)| National Park Service: https://www.nps.gov/manz/index.htm

Augmented Reality App Lets Users Witness the Removal of Japanese Americans, by Josie Huang| Laist: https://laist.com/news/japanese-american-wwii-augmented-reality

Remembering the Ishibashi Family's Agricultural Legacy in Palos Verdes| Southbay: https://southbay.goldenstate.is/remembering-the-ishibashi-familys-agricultural-in-palos-verdes/

The Changing Face of Downtown: Surviving Change: Old Time Store Prospers, by Time Waters (About Wilson's)| Los Angeles Times: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-01-04-cb-1781-story.html

This Angle of Rich Strike Winning the Kentucky Derby Is Nuts - 2021| YoutTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DsQyMvPwtg

SOME MUSIC WE TALKED ABOUT:

Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized| YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdUBTE9JpgI

Mana - Rayando El Sol| YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDkQB9b3cBw

Dio - Holy Diver| YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhGEGIBGLu8

Queensryche - Jet City Woman| YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmiy9aMcbB4

*Correction: Anthrax was not part of the lineup for this concert: https://www.concertarchives.org/concerts/heaven-and-hell-alice-cooper-queensryche-4b1ea7b4-e14d-40eb-96cc-7a7cbf8b0119

BOOKS WE TALKED ABOUT:

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemptio; by Laura Hillenbrand| Amazon