Stories from the Attic
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S3E3 Technically Speaking...
Is technology passing you by? Join Greg and Martin in this light-hearted talk about the woes of chasing advances, innovating, and building vintage tech in the moment to recover home movies a family…
S3E2 Sex and Cigarettes
In 1954, A psychologist meets a friend in the city. This friend introduces him to a reporter covering a story on intimacy and smoking. The good doctor unwittingly speaks freely with the reporter.…
S3E1 An Honor and a Privilege
It's a true opportunity to sit down with someone who has owned an historic home, but who also has a rich and vibrant memory of their own history. This is John Reed. As superintendent of Newtown CT…
S2E10 Abandoned in Greenwich
"10 buildings on one street in Greenwich, CT to be demolished" was all Martin Blanco and I needed to hear, and we were on our way to hunt for history, or get stuck in an attic while the wrecking ball…
S2E48 Movie Props for Sale
In this quick episode Martin and I grab the gear and head to Hastings on Hudson to look for the elusive Wire Recorder used in the film "Death of a Salesman" which featured Dustin Hoffman. The home of…
S2E8 Tips from a 1750s House - Don't Smoke your Meat!
"Stories From The Attic" Podcast: A colonial estate in Wilton, CT is the setting for this episode. Greg and Martin stay in the Backyard and use a very old doll house to show where the treasure is…
S2E22 Tackling the Hoard Part 2
The dig so big...it needed two episodes. Note: we are taping shorter episodes now, and in the future they may get shorter. You're busy; we get that. Back in the studio, Martin Blanco and I review the…
S2E1 Tackling the Hoard Part 1
A "hoard" can mean a lot of things. (I'll let that sink in.) The word is most often associated with someone who is a hoarder. That term is most often associated with someone usually living in…
S2E4 Top CIC Secret WWII Documents!
In this episode Greg and Martin must lay low as they reveal Confidential documents, essentially case files from the Counter Intelligence Corps as they operated in Italy after its liberation from the…
S2E3 Are You Seeing Spots? Try this!
In this episode, Martin Blanco and I share our reaction to several newly discovered vintage commercials from the 1960s and 70s. Among the hidden history are often the products of a long career in…
S2E2 The Valentine's Day Massacre
We love our wives. Don't be mistaken. However, in the hidden history left behind, Greg has uncovered proof that love, While a many splendid thing, is not easy. From the pages of a 1797 preceptor on…
S2E1 Your Mother's a Chicken!
"Are you taking a tone with me!?" was an alternate title for this premiere episode of season 2. In it Greg and Martin track the correlation of sound used in early tech to trigger vintage computers,…
S1E10 The Banned Christmas Special
In this final episode of season 1, Greg and Martin spent 30 of your precious minutes examining this big budget special and revealing how great talent can be wasted at the hands of corporate…
S1E9 What did we just eat!?
The papers often ignored in a home about to be sold or demolished are the remnants of journeys and the souvenirs of meals enjoyed. These bits, or bites, of hidden history are a window to the past…
S1E8 World War II Letters with 'Art'
The Stories from the Attic podcast is back with a new episode! This time Martin and I go on location to a 100 year-old attic in New Milford, Connecticut to reveal the found letters, postcards and…
S1E7 “Everyone is Sick”
How can being a Boy Scout in 1947 and going to the international jamboree end so badly? How did people entertain themselves in a visual medium that predates film? The answer to these and other…
S1E6 Vinyl Oddities
In this episode Greg and Martin uncover 2 never before heard cuts on vinyl. Well, if you were watching regional TV in the Albany NY region in 1972, maybe you did hear or even see this. “Pick a show”…
S1E5 1915- Shillington’s body is missing!
In this episode Greg and Martin read letters regarding a WWI soldier who has been wounded on the battlefield and is missing in action. Can his wife handle the bad news? Will Aunt Bertha get someone…
S1E4 When Big Pharma was just a Little Pharma
In this episode Greg and Co-host Martin Blanco take some early 20th Century Herbal Medications (No, we didn't Take'em Take them!) found in an attic and review the interesting packaging and promises…
S1E3 The roots of Westinghouse run deep in this Wilton CT home
In this episode of Stories from the Attic Greg and Martin review an amazing dig in a home just prior to it being cleaned out. History was saved, blood was shed but we all escaped much wiser. You will…
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Stories from the Attic has published 22 episodes since April 2024, covering topics in Documentary, Society & Culture.
Stories from the Attic is currently highly active with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 25m.
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