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A city councilman has announced a public memorial for the late Huell Howser for fans to honor the PBS host.View photos Tom LaBonge told KCBS-TV Wednesday that the gathering will be held at the ...

Not long ago, I went down to the city of Orange (founded 1869, incorporated 1888) to Chapman University, in search of the late Huell Howser. Howser died in January 2013 at the age of 67, having ...

If you go to the Google map on the website for the public television show “California’s Gold,” host Huell Howser’s adopted state is blanketed by hundreds of dots marking places he has profiled. There ...

Huell Howser died last night and there's never been a night I wished more I was in California. His voice is so familiar to me and so closely tied to his love of the state that it might as well be the ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

Public television star Huell Howser, who died this month of prostate cancer, did not talk openly about his illness because “he never wanted the story to be about him,” his assistant said. The host of ...

“Pig ear Jell-O?!” That was the late and amazing Huell Howser’s reaction delivered in his signature, excitable, earnest Tennessean twang when I explained to him, on-camera, the process of making cold ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — A public memorial for fans of the late Huell Howser will be held next Tuesday at Griffith Observatory. Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge, who was sworn into office by ...

CORRECTS SPELLING OF NAME TO HUELL NOT HULL FILE- In this March 31, 2005, file photo provided by the Howser production company via KCET, television host Huell Howser poses for a photo at the Antelope ...

Huell Howser, the genial TV personality who took Californians on a three-decade tour of their state, died Sunday night at 67. Howser was best known for the long-running series “California’s Gold,” ...

Huell Howser, folksy enthusiast for all manner of local gems in the Golden State and long the host of travel show “California’s Gold,” died of natural causes in Palm Springs early Monday morning. He ...