BellingHistory with the Good Time Girls - The Podcast
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Bellinghistory with the Good Time Girls is a hyper-local podcast dedicated to the quirky history of Bellingham, Washington. Hosts Kolby and Wren are co-owners of Bellinghistory Tours, aka “The Good Time Girls,” and are experienced researchers, storytellers and purveyors of local history, known for their signature sass. This podcast will appeal to history nerds who like to have a good time, in Bellingham and beyond. Hear Bellinghistory like you’ve never heard it before, with new episodes released every other week.
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It's the first real episode of season 2: Bellinghamsters and other Tails - Animal Stories with the Good Time Girls! Oooorrrr… “firefighters are a brave, unruly and maybe a little bit bored, bunch.” We pulled out some of our favorite furry history for this one with wild tales of Bellinghaminals, from Bellingh-hamsters to Belling.... ant bears. This one was based on a live talk we gave at the Whatcom Museum for their Free First Friday program, and coinciding with the recent exhibit “The Pet Show.”
Show notes and more at https://bellinghistory.com/the-podcast
Spring has sprung and Season 2 is here! Well, almost…
This is just a teaser, a little intro to what is coming your way for season 2. For this season, in order to save our sanity and precious time, we are going to release monthly on the THIRD THURSDAY. This will give us more time to do all the researching and scripting and editing to bring you fun content for your ears. Have a listen to hear what else we’ve got coming your way!
Show notes and more at https://bellinghistory.com/the-podcast
In this episode we get into the “vintage” era of the 1970s and 1980s and Bellingham’s dive-y waterfront scene with a discussion of our legendary “Serial Killer Bar” as well as an unsolved mystery concerning a body found in the boiler plant at the former Georgia Pacific mill complex.
The last of our re-released episodes from the 2020 season of “Bad Town” on the City of Subdued Podcast, hosted by Annika Fleming, Maria Dalla Gasparina, and guest hosted by Kolby and Wren and Good Time Girls founder Marissa McGrath.
CONTENT WARNING - DISCUSSIONS OF VIOLENCE AND MURDER AND OTHER GRUESOME TOPICS, SOME OF WHICH ARE OF MORE RECENT MEMORY.
Show notes and more at https://bellinghistory.com/the-podcast
This episode features the story of the Maple Falls Murder Farm! We discuss the creepy murderer who local papers blamed for the death of Frederick Dames (see previous episode: Bad Butchered Town) … and while this creepy murderer was perhaps Whatcom County’s first serial killer… did he really butcher the butcher? You be the judge!
This episode is a re-release from the 2020 season of “Bad Town” on the City of Subdued Podcast, hosted by Annika Fleming, Maria Dalla Gasparina and yours truly along with Good Time Girls founder Marissa McGrath. BUT with updates!
Content warning: murder, death, true crime.
Show notes and more at https://bellinghistory.com/the-podcast
In this week’s episode, we revisit one of our favorite Bellingham true-crime stories, the murder of a local butcher, Frederick Dames, in 1905. Though declared “solved” a few years later, doubts remain as to whether the supposed perpetrator was actually responsible for this particular crime. (More on him in next week’s episode!)
This episode is a re-release from the 2020 season of “Bad Town” on the City of Subdued Podcast, hosted by Annika Fleming, Maria Dalla Gasperina and yours truly along with Good Time Girls founder Marissa McGrath.
Content warning for gruesome descriptions of this particularly heinous murder. Listen with care.
Show notes and more at https://bellinghistory.com/the-podcast
In this episode we discuss the history of the Ku Klux Klan, aka the KKK, here in Bellingham, Whatcom County and the PNW.
Listen with care.
This episode is a re-release from the 2020 season of “Bad Town” on the City of Subdued Podcast, hosted by Annika Fleming, Maria Dalla Gasparina and yours truly along with Good Time Girls founder Marissa McGrath.
Show notes and more at https://bellinghistory.com/the-podcast
In this episode we get into prohibition era Bad-Town, complete with rum running, bootlegging and speak-easies (aka Blind Pigs). AND a story straight from the LaBree family vaults.
This episode is a re-release from the 2020 season of “Bad Town” on the City of Subdued Podcast, hosted by Annika Fleming, Maria Dalla Gasparina and yours truly along with Good Time Girls founder Marissa McGrath.
Show notes and more at https://bellinghistory.com/the-podcast
In this week’s episode we discuss the case of Lorena Upper, a so-called "lady barber" accused of violating the “red light statute” here in Bellingham, Washington in 1922 and what it meant to work as a woman in a traditionally male occupation at the time.
This episode is a re-release from the 2020 season of “Bad Town” on the City of Subdued Podcast, hosted by Annika Fleming, Maria Dalla Gasparina and yours truly along with Good Time Girls founder Marissa McGrath.
We have updates on this episode at the end!
Show notes and more at https://bellinghistory.com/the-podcast
This episode features stories of women who ran afoul of the law, as well as the women charged with policing them! There are murder plots, madams, police matrons and the “high priestess of anarchy.” Plus bonus content questions an updates.
Content warning on this one for topics of domestic violence and other disturbing situations.
This episode is a re-release from the 2020 season of “Bad Town” on the City of Subdued Podcast, hosted by Annika Fleming, Maria Dalla Gasparina and yours truly along with Good Time Girls founder Marissa McGrath.
Show notes and more at https://bellinghistory.com/the-podcast
Bad Trial Town, aka “For the Love of Moses” is about a sensational murder that occurred on Forest Street, near the Majestic Hall in Bellingham, Washington. It’s about a man who shot his wife and his son-in-law, who was also his wife’s lover. It’s about fancy-talking lawyers with pink toupees. It’s about an acquittal based on patriarchal biblical law. And lastly, it’s about the flaws in our justice system then and NOW.
Content warning on this one for topics of domestic violence and other disturbing situations.
This episode is a re-release from the 2020 season of “Bad Town” on the City of Subdued Podcast, hosted by Annika Fleming, Maria Dalla Gasparina and yours truly along with Good Time Girls founder Marissa McGrath.
Show notes and more at https://bellinghistory.com/the-podcast
Kolby and Marissa take a deeper dive into the life of Frank “Spider” Biles, arrested for a string of arsons in the summer of 1892. “Spider Biles, The Fire Bug” is memorialized on a cement marker in the cobblestone alley next to Skylark’s Café in Fairhaven, now a quaint historic shopping district in Bellingham, Washington. This episode is a re-release from the 2020 season of “Bad Town” on the City of Subdued Podcast, hosted by Annika Fleming, Maria Dalla Gasparina and yours truly along with Good Time Girls founder Marissa McGrath.
Read our show-notes and more at bellinghistory.com/the-podcast
This week’s story is about notorious Bad Bud Cox, an original Bad Town Bad Boy. We take a deeper look into the life of “Bud Cox” who gained local infamy after robbing a saloon in Fairhaven in the early 1900s, and who spent his life addicted and incarcerated.
This episode is a re-release from the 2020 season of “Bad Town” on the City of Subdued Podcast, hosted by Annika Fleming, Maria Dalla Gasparina and US along with Good Time Girls founder Marissa McGrath.
Read our show-notes and more at bellinghistory.com/the-podcast
Another re-release from the 2020 season of “Bad Town” on the City of Subdued Podcast, hosted by Annika Fleming, Maria Dalla Gasparina and US along with Good Time Girls founder Marissa McGrath. In this episode Marissa and Kolby discuss the so-called “Chines Curse” on the town of Bellingham, and the story behind the urban legend. We’ve included some additional discussion on this one. Also see our original show notes, references, resources and ephemera HERE.
(Apologies for being late on this one! Crazy October and Sickness! )
It’s a re-release of our 2020 BAD TOWN Halloween special! This one features some spooky seasonal favorites from our Fairhaven Gore and Lore Tours! We discuss why Fairhaven is called Bellingham’s “Haunted Hot-Spot” - hint, maybe it’s the disturbed burial grounds known as Dead Man’s Point? Also we’ll pop into Sycamore Square and discuss the famous Green Lady Ghost and listen to some Electronic Voice Phenomenon recordings believed to be from the spirit realm therein.
For show notes and other fun stuff see https://bellinghistory.com/the-podcast
Welcome (back) to Bad Town! Enjoy some re-released episodes of season 2 of the City of Subdued Podcast featuring us as co-hosts while we take a break! Recorded back in ye olden pandemic days of 2020, these episodes feature some of our BADDEST Belling-History. Enjoy, re-listen, and let us know what you’d like to hear about in future episodes.
https://bellinghistory.com/podcast
In this episode we regale you with the saga of the wreck of the Steamer Buckeye, a little steamship of the Mosquito Fleet, that capsized in Bellingham Bay in 1895 between Eliza Island and today’s Larrabee State park with a small crew and several passengers including Will D. Jenkins, local editor and Mayor of the town of Whatcom. This episode features one human casualty, and a number of unfortunate livestock. It’s a buck-wild story!
See our show notes for ephemera and references at: https://bellinghistory.com/the-podcast
In this episode we explore the wreck of the bark "Union" of 1875 near Lummi Island and Bellingham Bay in the Pacific Northwest, and take a deep dive (pun intended) into deep dives, that is the history of diving and salvage operations both in general and specific to this shipwreck. This is part one of two (and probably more later) episodes about shipwrecks that occurred in the vicinity of our hamlet.
For those so inclined, you could make it a drinking game - one for every bad maritime pun or new vocabulary word - beware, you just might get shipfaced... Anchors away!
See our show notes for ephemera and references at: https://bellinghistory.com/the-podcast
In this episode we continue our exploration of monsters of the deep. We’ll dish on the sea-monster stars of the 20th century, creepy carcasses and cryptids sighted in and around Bellingham Bay and the waters of the Salish Sea. And yes, we finally get to the globsters!
Show notes, ephemera etcetera at:
https://bellinghistory.com/the-podcast
In this episode we dive in (pun intended) to the seemingly bottomless pool of sea monster stories. Whether they be myth, lore or just a really big fish, “monsters of the deep” have inspired many a whopper of a tale here in Bellingham, Washington and the PNW over the years. Release the Kraken!
Show notes and more at https://bellinghistory.com/the-podcast
In this episode we explore bathing beaches at Squalicum Beach and Fort Bellingham, as part two of a two-part series on historical beach resorts of Bellingham, Washington. It’s hard to imagine thousands of Bellinghamsters spending a day at the seaside at these locations today, but around the 1920s these bathing resorts really picked up where the White City left off, with dancing pavilions, natatoriums and amusement parks. Of course there is some weird drama and old-time goss thrown in for good measure.
Show notes and more goodies at: https://bellinghistory.com/the-podcast
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