by Luis Fuerte
McElroy, Hayden, 112
Meadows, Jayne, 30
Meeting of Minds, 30
Memphis, 20
Mennonite Quilt Center, 88, 164
menudo, 125-126
Mexico, 23, 161, 167, 186
Mexico City, 23
Miss America, 20
Mission La Purisima Concepción, 99
Mission San Fernando, 98
Mission San Francisco de Asís, 103, 185
Mission San José 103
Mission San Juan Bautista, 102
Mission San Juan Capistrano, 97, 184
Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, 100
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, 97
Mission San Miguel, 101
Mission Santa Barbara, 98
Mission Santa Clara de Asís, 102
Mission Santa Cruz, 102
Mission Santa Inés, 98-99
Mississippi River, 83, 179
Mitchell Caverns Nature Preserve, 170
Mobley, Mary Ann, 20
Mono Lake, 164
Montebello, 143
Monterey, 170, 184
Morongo Valley, 164
Morris, Ryan, 145, 152
Morro Rock, 93, 163
Moscow, 114
Mother Lode, 45, 162
Mountain Messenger, 163
Mozart, 23
Mt. Konocti, 186
Mt. San Jacinto, 177
Mule Days, 177
Muscle Beach, 182
National Historic Landmark, 84, 184
Native Americans, 102-103, 172, 176, 183
Navy, 24, 84, 86, 175, 179, 192
NBC, 20
Nese, John, 139
New Almaden Mine, 176
New England, 102
New York City, 15, 20
Nita, 22, 33, 35, 37-38
noon, 17, 97-98
nopales, 93
Noyes, Phil, 66, 152
Oakland, 163, 172
Officer and a Gentleman, An, 30
Olympic Auditorium, 26
Ontario, 162, 171
orange, 89-90, 115, 157, 181
Pallenberg, Harry, 66, 152
Palm Springs, 90, 126, 138, 171, 177, 180
Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, 177
Palmdale, 111
Panama Canal, 83, 179
Parton, Dolly, 18, 20
Pasadena, 177
Patrick’s Point State Park, 187
PBS, 40, 121, 145, 192
Perrine, Valerie, 29
Perry Mason, 20
Petaluma, 185
Philippe’s, 141
Pied Piper, 139
Pigeon Courier Service, 170
Pink, Richard, 142
Pink’s Hot Dogs, 141-142
Pismo State Beach, 186
Pittsburgh, 83
Placerita Canyon, 173
Point Reyes, 90, 177
Poison Oak show, 163
Pony Express, 167
Poppy Reserve, 64, 163, 170
Pozo’s Saloon, 161
Press Photographers Association, 123
Providence Mountains State Recreation Area, 170
Pyle, Gomer, 46
Railfair, 45, 162
Rancho Cucamonga, 183
ranunculus fields, 170
Rap On, 17
Real Life, 20
Red Bluff, 186
Red Church, 163
Redlands, 164
Redwood National Park, 162
Reedley, 88, 163-164
Reno, 178
Reynolds, Burt, 20
Richard Nixon Library, 185
Riverside, 23, 172, 181
Rockefeller Center, 15
Rodia, Simon, 161
Rogers, Jimmie, 187
Rosenberg, Howard, 22
Sacramento, 42, 45, 84-85, 162, 167, 169, 175-176, 178-179, 184-185
Sacramento River, 84-85, 179
Sagan, Carl, 30
Sajak, Pat, 17
Salinas Valley, 93, 178
Salvation Mountain, 177
San Andreas fault, 102
San Bernardino, 23-24, 126, 135, 181, 185-186, 192
San Bernardino Valley College, 24
San Diego, 22, 33, 42, 81, 97, 126, 170, 172, 182
San Diego Wild Animal Park, 22, 33
San Francisco, 31, 43, 46, 51, 64, 101, 103, 107-108, 126, 133-134, 149, 161-162, 168-169, 173, 176, 179, 181, 185-186
San Francisco Columbarium, 185
San Joaquin Valley, 63, 88, 171
San Luis Obispo, 43, 100-101, 161, 170, 179
San Miguel Island, 178
San Nicolas Island, 167
San Onofre Beach, 182
San Pedro, 122, 164
Santa Barbara Island, 64, 76, 170
Santa Clara University, 102
Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 77
Santa Fe, 23
Santa Monica Pier, 182
Santa Rosa Island, 131, 176
Scott, Walter, 172
Sea Scouts, 24
Seabee Naval Museum, 171
See’s Candies, 133, 179
Serra, Junipero, 98
Shasta Dam, 137, 181
Sherman Indian High School, 172
Sierra gold country, 76
Sierra Nevada, 43, 66, 126, 135, 164, 177-178
Sixteen to One gold mine, 76
Slab City, 177
Sonoma, 169, 186
Sonora, 163
Southern Pacific Railroad, 75
Soviet Union, 111-112, 114, 120
SS Red Oak Victory, 182
St. George Reef Lighthouse, 63, 173
Stan’s Donuts, 140-141
Steambath, 29
Stockton, 162
Stockton Ports, 162
Story, Ralph, 140
Studebaker Car Company, 169
Sunset Boulevard, 38, 148, 156, 187
Supra, 114
Sutro Baths, 64, 173
Sutter’s Mill, 182
Taft, 131
Tbilisi, 111-114, 120
Ten Commandments, The, 165, 167
Tennessee, 9, 12, 15, 17, 22, 90, 146
Tesh, John, 17
Theme building, 45
Thomason, Harry, 112, 115
Tita, 23
To Life, 20
Top Gun, 86
trains, 45, 162, 172, 176
Treasure Island, 179
“Trees,” 89
Trinidad Bay, 162
Tulelake, 161
U-T Today, 17
UC Riverside, 181
UCLA, 45, 140, 162, 192
Uncle Harry’s, 88, 164
University of Tennessee at Knoxville, 17
US National Handcar Race, 176
Vandenberg Air Force Base, 178
Ventura, 98, 178
Videolog, 11-12, 22, 31-33, 36-37, 42, 46, 49, 53, 62, 121
Vietnam War, 17
Visiting with Huell Howser, 9, 87, 109, 125, 138, 153
Vista, 42, 162
W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Center, 167
Warner Brothers, 90
Watts Towers, 43
WCBS, 18
Weaver, Dennis, 20
Wedding Day, 20, 22
Wells Fargo, 40, 121
Westwood, 140
Wheel of Fortune, 17
White Mountains, 79, 169
Will Rogers State Historic Park, 187
Wimmer, Jenny, 182
“Wind,” 90
World War II, 81, 137, 168, 182-183
Worthington, Cal, 27
Wrigley, William 183
WSM, 17
Yosemite, 54, 71, 74-75, 169, 174-175
Yosemite Firefall, 71, 175
Yuma, 163
Zavala, Val, 155
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
LUIS FUERTE is the five-time Emmy-award-winning former cameraman for the Huell Howser show California’s Gold, a hugely popular program that continues to run on California’s many PBS stations even since Howser’s death in 2013. Th
e son of a Mexican immigrant, Fuerte was born in San Bernardino, California. He became a cameraman after two years in the US Navy and attending LA Valley College to study television engineering. Besides his Emmy awards, Fuerte has been named Latino of the Year, been inducted into two halls of fame, and won the Golden Mic Award, the International Monitor Award, and the Salt of the Earth Award. After forty-eight years in television, he’s now retired and lives with his wife in Rialto, California.
DAVID DURON met Luis Fuerte while working as senior unit manager at KCET-TV in Los Angeles. A Marine Corps veteran who earned bachelor’s in political science and a master’s degree in journalism from UCLA, he also wrote and produced for KCBS-TV and KABC-TV during his television career. Now retired from a real job, Duron is working on several writing projects, including a novel and other as-told-to books from his home in Yucaipa, California.