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Greg has been hunting for hidden history in the basements and attics of America for over 30 years. He is a public speaker, historian and preservationist and this podcast presents the stories behind some of his favorite discoveries. Along with Co-host Martin Blanco, they discuss the items with a bent towards humor, while promoting the importance preservation and the accessibility for anyone to conduct their own search for hidden history.
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- Abandon House!! · 24 min · Kausi 3 Jakso 8What do you do when you get a tip on an abandoned house? Do you go? Should you go? Should you go alone!? Greg went, and he and Martin watch the reveal video of an adventure in to…
- Happy Belated Birthday, America! · 32 min · Kausi 3 Jakso 6In this episode, Greg and Martin discover what happened to America in, not the last 50 years, but the 200 before that.Two casual but timely "finds" reveal a blast from Martin's…
- Special Guest: Detectorist, Victoria Keating · 28 min · Kausi 3 Jakso 5Greg and Martin welcome their very first guest Victoria Keating. Victoria and Greg were given permission to revisit a Port Chester home built in 1865. Victoria, and her Mum with…
- How to win at Russian Roulette · 25 min · Kausi 3 Jakso 4Join Greg and Martin in a listening party as we try to decipher another fascinating piece of of hidden history from an attic dig. Can you really win at Russian Roulette? Listen…
- Technically Speaking... · 24 min · Kausi 3 Jakso 3Is 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…
- Sex and Cigarettes · 34 min · Kausi 3 Jakso 2In 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…
- An Honor and a Privilege · 24 min · Kausi 3 Jakso 1It'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…
- Abandoned in Greenwich · 9 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 10"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…
- Movie Props for Sale · 11 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 48In 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…
- Tips from a 1750s House - Don't Smoke your Meat! · 14 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 8"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…
- Tackling the Hoard Part 2 · 19 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 22The 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…
- Tackling the Hoard Part 1 · 13 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 1A "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…
- Top CIC Secret WWII Documents! · 30 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 4In 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…
- Are You Seeing Spots? Try this! · 32 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 3In 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…
- The Valentine's Day Massacre · 39 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 2We 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…
- Your Mother's a Chicken! · 28 min · Kausi 2 Jakso 1"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…
- The Banned Christmas Special · 33 min · Kausi 1 Jakso 10In 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…
- What did we just eat!? · 34 min · Kausi 1 Jakso 9The 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…
- World War II Letters with 'Art' · 20 min · Kausi 1 Jakso 8The 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…
- “Everyone is Sick” · 23 min · Kausi 1 Jakso 7How 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…
