Jimmie Tarantino Pt. 2: D.A. Thomas Lynch Spells Out Jimmie’s Scams in Post-WWII Frisco

by kbronson | Aug 22, 2025 | Episodes

TRANSCRIPT: Welcome to the Secret History of Frisco Podcast. I’m your host, Knox Bronson.    I have a fun episode today, a bit of a departure in that it’s a verbatim reading of a portion of an oral history, the interviewing of former California Attorney...

Episode 5: introducing jimmie tarantino part 1—when frank sinatra and mickey cohen invested in hollywood nite life magazine

by kbronson | Aug 12, 2025 | Episodes

This episode of “The Secret History of Frisco” podcast introduces listeners to Jimmie Tarantino, a man described as a “louse, a blowhard, a barely literate, anti-Communist shake-down artist.” The episode delves into Tarantino’s early life...

Bonus ep. 5 Call It Frisco Part 2—sally stanford weighs in on the eternal conflict

by kbronson | Jul 30, 2025 | Episodes

TRANSCRIPT: Welcome to the Secret History of Frisco Podcast. I’m your host, Knox Bronson.We are going to revisit the question of “FRISCO” today. Some people are quite passionate about it. This is the “Call It FRISCO, Part 2” Episode.Ever since I got sober many years...

Bonus ep. 4—FRISCO NOIR With Rachel Walther—The Maltese Falcon No.1 (1931) & No.2 (1941) and Dark Passage (1947)

by kbronson | Jul 24, 2025 | Episodes

TRANSCRIPT Knox(train chugging) (bell ringing) (horn blowing) Frisco: The Secret History, a podcast. (instrumental music) Hi, this is Knox Bronson at The Secret History of Frisco podcast, and we have a really great, uh, episode for you today. We’re talking to...

Ep. 4—The Story of Johnny Ochsner, The Rich Kid Romeo, and the Lovesick Stowaways

by kbronson | Jul 22, 2025 | Episodes

TRANSCRIPT Hi, this is Knox Bronson at the Secret History of Frisco podcast. We have a rather remarkable episode today. It is the story of an Oakland man, two women who followed him across the Pacific as stowaways, one from San Francisco to Hawaii, one from Hawaii...