There are five questions that get asked of every guest on the podcast:
Below are past responses:
Ulises Bella, musician and founding member of the Grammy award winning band Ozomatli (HHLA 76)
1. Philippe's (lamb with blue cheese / pork with cheddar)
2. Tacos Del Negro, 6525 Eastern Ave., Bell Gardens 90201; Carnitas El Momo, 2411 Fairmount St., Los Angeles 90033; La Luz Del Dia, W-1 Olvera Street, Los Angeles 90012; Tacos Don Goyo, 8502 Telegraph Rd., Downey 90240; Tacos El Bebe, 4800 Randolph St., Bell 90201
3. 1980s Showtime Lakers
4. Blade Runner, Big Lebowski, Repo Man, Colors
5. The height of the Central Avenue jazz scene (1920-1950s)
Natalia Molina, author of A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community (HHLA74)
1. Philippe's
2. Rickey's Fish Tacos, 3061 Riverside Dr., Los Angeles 90027; Angel's truck on Eagle Rock Boulevard in front of the Target, Yuca's, 2056 Hillhurst Avenue, Los Angeles 90027.
3. Every moment at Dodger Stadium (also mentioned the first year Fernando Valenzuela was pitching and Ramon Martinez' no-hitter in 1995)
4. Recommendations for books this year: Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy by George Sanchez and South Central Dreams: Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A. by Manuel Pastor and Pierette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Paul Haddad, author of Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles (HHLA72)
Ken Bernstein, author of Preserving Los Angeles: How Historic Places Can Transform America's Cities (HHLA69)
1. Philippe's (roast beef double dip)
2. Los Cinco Puntos, 3300 East Cesar E. Chavez Avenue, Los Angeles 90063
3. 1985 Lakers Championship
4. 500 days of Summer (movie) and Southern California: An Island on the Land by Carey McWilliams (book)
5. The opening of L.A. City Hall in 1928
William Deverell, author of Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy That Transfixed The Nation (HHLA67)
1. Cole's (and Varnish)
2. Guisados, 1261 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles 90026
3. Gibson's 1988 World Series home run (while in Super Shuttle driving by Dodger Stadium)
4. Chinatown (movie)
5. 1920s
Catherine Auman, author of Spiritual L.A.: The Irreverent, the Awake, and the True (HHLA65)
1. Philippe's (turkey)
2. Tacos Tu Madre, 1824 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles 90027 (Los Feliz)
4. Book: Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion; Movie: Holy Hell (2016 documentary about the Buddhafield cult)
5. Venice in the 1970s
Martha Gonzalez, author of Chicana Artivistas: Music. Community, and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles (HHLA64)
1. Neither.
2. La Estrella, 6103 N. Figueroa St., Highland Park 90042; Los California Tacos (taco truck in front of Nishikawa Auto Service), 510 S. Fair Oaks Ave., Pasadena 91105; Truck on Navarro Street in between Castalia and Pueblo in El Sereno (behind the parking lot for Food for Less, 4910 Hunting Dr. S Los Angeles 90032)
3. NBA playoffs during the Lakers three-peat (2000-2002)
4. Movies: Chinatown, Zoot Suit
5. Los Angeles before the freeways (get on a trolly on First Street and take it all the way from downtown to the beach)
Andrea Richards and Teena Apeles, authors of We Heart L.A. Parks (HHLA63)
Jason Horton, author of Abandoned and Historic Los Angeles: Neon and Beyond (HHLA62)
Nathan Marsak, author of Bunker Hill Los Angeles (HHLA61)
Maggie Moran, owner of Adams Pack Station (HHLA60)
D.J. Wadie, author of Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place (HHLA58)
Jon Wiener, author of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties (HHLA55)
Casey Schreiner, author of Discovering Griffith Park: A Local’s Guide (HHLA54)
Susan Philips, author of The City Beneath: A Century of Los Angeles Graffiti (HHLA52)
Chris Nichols, author of Walt Disney’s Disneyland (HHLA51)
Josh Kun, author of The Autograph Book of L.A. (HHLA49)
Nathan Masters, host of KCET’s documentary series Lost LA (HHLA48)
Phoef Sutton and Mark Jordan Legan, hosts of the podcast Film Freaks Forever (HHLA46)
David Kipen, author of Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018 (HHLA43)