Blog Posts and Podcast Notes
Maritime May-hem
GET SALTY WITH US THIS MONTH WITH A WEEKEND OF MARITIME HISTORY AND NAUTICAL NONSENSE!
The Podcast: Bellinghamsters and other Tails
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 beloved Bellinghaminals, from hamsters to ant bears.
The podcast: it’s time for season 2!
It’s time for Season 2 of Bellinghistory with the Good Time Girls, The Podcast!
The podcast: Bad Reputation Town
In this week’s FINAL re-release 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 a crazy unsolved mystery of a body found in the former Georgia Pacific mill complex.
The Podcast: Bad Murder Farm Town (Re-release)
In this episode, we introduce 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!
The Podcast: Bad Butchered Town (Re-Release)
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.
The Podcast: The Worst Bad Town
In this episode we discuss the history of the Ku Klux Klan, aka the KKK, here in Bellingham, Whatcom County and the PNW. 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. Listen with care.
The Podcast: Bad Booze Town (Re-release)
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.
The Podcast: Bad (Lady) Barber Town (Re-release)
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.