George Lucas & Modesto, California

Skytalkers

Charlotte Errity & Caitlin Plesher

Tv & Film, After Shows, Film Reviews

4.7 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Travel with us to Modesto, California and dive deep into the history of young George Lucas growing up here. On this special episode of Skytalkers, Caitlin, architectural historian, details: Learn the history of the two houses he grew up in, plus notable locations like his father’s stationary store and the car crash site. Go on a journey with us about George’s childhood movie theater, and whether or not it inspired the world-renowned Stag Theater at Skywalker Ranch. The relationship between George and his hometown and how that inspired Star Wars and American Graffiti. … and so much more! Follow along on our website for photos + more historical context from Caitlin. Our San Ansemlo episode is here. Join our Patreon community and unlock bonus episodes + more! Our website! Follow us on Twitter/X @skytalkerspod Follow us on TikTok @skytalkers Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram @skytalkerspodcast Follow Charlotte on Twitter/X @crerrity Follow Caitlin on Twitter/X @caitlinplesher Email us! hello@skytalkers.com Our theme music is by Christy Carew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The hometown of George Lucas and a hub of cruising culture, we're exploring the history of
0:04.1	Modesto, California, and all the ways it made George Lucas into the renowned filmmaker that he is today.
0:29.5	Welcome to Sky Talkers. Here are your hosts, Charlotte and Caitlin.
0:33.2	Hello and welcome to Sky Talkers. I'm your host Charlotte.
0:39.3	Hey everyone. I'm your other host, Caitlin, and welcome to this episode where we are finally going to Modesto.
0:57.4	I'm really excited about this episode. It's been a long time coming. Honestly, a couple years in the making, truly. We did a history episode about San and Selma a couple years ago, December 2021, so a while ago, actually.
1:03.5	And ever since that episode, we've been planning to do more history discussions about some of the places in California associated with George Lucas. And one of them being, of course, Modesto,
1:09.1	which is his hometown, where he spent his early
1:12.1	formative childhood years.
1:14.6	So I'm excited that we finally made it to Modesto Day and we're here.
1:21.0	And yeah, I have a lot of fun things to talk about, hopefully fun and interesting things
1:25.8	about Modesto.
1:27.1	So even before the San Enselmo episode, Charlotte and I had done a whole series about
1:32.1	George Lucas, and it was called our By George series.
1:35.6	I think that was in 2019, 2018, something like that.
1:39.7	It was a long time ago.
1:40.5	It was a while ago.
1:41.3	A long time ago.
1:42.1	Yeah.
1:42.5	But anyway, the San Anselmo episode was kind of like a
1:46.1	sister discussion to that by George series that we did, you know, pre-2020. And this Modesto episode
1:53.6	is kind of another installment of that. So we're going to be talking about some of the places
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