The Grit City Podcast
The Premier Business, Community, Entertainment, and Nightlife Podcast. Hosted from The Grit City - Tacoma, Washington! Located in the heart of the beautiful Pacific Northwest.
We found 10 episodes of The Grit City Podcast with the tag “history”.
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GCP: The Question?!
February 9th, 2024 | 21 mins 18 secs
bonus, history, patrons, the question, vhs
What was the last thing you watched or recorded on VHS?
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Tacompton Files
July 19th, 2021 | 1 hr 10 mins
crime, facebook page, footage, history, police scanners, tacompton files
This time the guys sit down with Brandon, the creator of the Tacompton Files page on Facebook. Tacompton Files was created to share crime info for the Tacoma area and has grown into a place that also shares news on missing people and animals, and information directly related to the Tacoma area.
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Tacoma's Pretty Gritty Tours with Chris Staudinger
June 21st, 2021 | 1 hr 10 mins
b2b, black fleet brewery, chris staudinger, history, knives, kpop, pretty gritty tours, tours
This week the guys catch up with Chris Staudinger, owner of Pretty Gritty Tours since he was last on the show. Pretty Gritty Tours was founded in 2016 by a collection of guides, artists, and historian who feelt that the South Sound is one of the most beautiful and underrepresented parts of the world. Pretty Gritty Tours offers various tours around Tacoma, including a Brewery Tour, Historical Tours, and Antique Row. With the onset of Covid, they've also added new weekly virtual tours of the PNW for free! You can find out more about Chris and Pretty Gritty Tours at: prettygrittytours.com.
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Dunkelberger Returns with More Tacoma History
May 17th, 2021 | 1 hr 20 mins
bigfoot, drinks, drunk history, fireworks, graves, headstones, history, janovich, ohio, pizza, pythian temple, steve dunkelberger, the enterprise, union club, western state
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GCP is back recording in person!! Their first live guest is the great friend of the podcast, Steve Dunkelberger. Steve has been a working journalist for more than 20 years at various publications around the Puget Sound. In addition to being a journalist, he is also a judge for the Society of Professional Journalists National Sigma Delta Chi Journalism Awards. He has also has given lectures in the area on issues facing journalists, is a member of the Knights of the Pythias, and offers Drunken History tours of Tacoma. -
Valentine's Day and Other VD with Steve Dunkleberger
March 2nd, 2020 | 1 hr 12 mins
author, drunk history, history, steve dunkelberger, steve's drunk history, tacoma, valentine's day
Steve Dunkelberger is back! This time we talk Valentine's Day and VD. Steve has been a working journalist for more than 20 years at various publications around the Puget Sound. In addition to being a journalist, he is also a judge for the Society of Professional Journalists National Sigma Delta Chi Journalism Awards. He has also has given lectures in the area on issues facing journalists, is a member of the Knights of the Pythias, and offers Drunken History tours of Tacoma.
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Drunk History with Steve!
March 25th, 2019 | 1 hr 16 mins
drunk history, girl trouble, history, karpeles manuscript library museum, knights of the pythias, mcneal island, safe streets, steve dunkelberger
Steve Dunkelberger stops in to drink with us and talks history and stuff.
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Steve Dunkelberger - The Maury Island Incident
December 3rd, 2018 | 37 mins 26 secs
drunk history, history, maury island incident, men in black, steve dunkelberger, ufo
Steve Dunkelberger tells the guys about The Maury Island Incident. One of the first UFO and Men in Black experiences in the US.
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Pretty Gritty Tours - Chris Staudinger
June 25th, 2018 | 1 hr 1 min
chris staudinger, history, pretty gritty, tacoma, tours
Chris makes a stop by our temporary home, Wizard's Keep, to talk about his new tour business in Tacoma, Pretty Gritty Tours.
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Best Of - Jake Bird
June 11th, 2018 | 34 mins 55 secs
axe murderer, free rpg day, gcfu, history, jake bird, killer, pacific northwest, pnw, railroad, role playing games, rpg, rusted portal, serial, tacoma, washington
This week we bring back one of our most popular episodes. The story of serial killer Jake Bird, told by our friend and history nut Steve Dunkelberger. Plus a GCFU from Rusted Portal.
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The Knights of Pythias, Commencement Lodge # 7 with Steve Dunkelberger
May 28th, 2018 | 1 hr 6 mins
history, illuminati, jake bird, knights of pythias, maury island, pythian temple, secret society, steve dunkelberger, tacoma
Downtown Stevie D. gives us a tour of the Pythian Temple and some Tacoma history to go along with it.