Turns out Lafayette, CA is interesting.

TourPods has 87 narrated audio stories about Lafayette — the hidden history, true crime, food legends, and local lore of its streets, told like a podcast about wherever you're standing.

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Lafayette

Lafayette and the Quiet Machinery of War

A local wartime story of fields, prisoners, and hidden intelligence.

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Lafayette Veterans Memorial Building

Where Memory Meets Main Street

A veterans memorial that became downtown Lafayette’s living gathering place.

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Lafayette Veterans Memorial Center

Where Lafayette Remembers Together

A memorial building that keeps remembrance in the middle of community life.

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Lafayette

What Lafayette Remembers Underground

A wartime story about fear, volunteers, and the limits of local memory.

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Lafayette Library and Learning Center

Where a Library Learned to Take the Stage

How Lafayette built a library meant for books, ideas, and a bigger audience.

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Lafayette

Brian Copeland’s Real Hometown Story

A Bay Area career rooted in San Leandro, not Lafayette.

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Lafayette

Where Lafayette Meets the Movies

A town’s film story centers on one beloved theater and a little mystery.

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Lafayette Library and Learning Center

Where Lafayette Reads Together

A story of how a public library became a civic living room for readers.

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Lafayette

Where Lafayette’s Writers Turn Life Into Story

A quiet Lamorinda city has nurtured bestselling voices in suspense and memoir.

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Town Hall Theatre

Where New Plays Find Their Feet

How a Lafayette stage has made room for local writers and local faith.

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Lafayette

Anthony Boucher’s Many Voices

A writer, editor, critic, and radio hand in his final California chapter.

HistoryCultureLiteraryListen in the app
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Stanley Middle School

The Middle School Where Lafayette Learned to Swing

How one public middle school turned a shared campus into a music tradition.

MusicCultureKids
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Town Hall Theatre

From Town Business to Stage Lights

A historic Lafayette hall keeps making room for local performance.

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Lafayette Cemetery Memorial Park

Where Lafayette’s First Families Still Keep Watch

A small cemetery holds fast as the valley around it changes.

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Mount Diablo Boulevard

The Street That Kept Lafayette Together

How movement, growth, and community shaped Lafayette’s main street.

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Crosses of Lafayette

A Hillside That Counted the Cost of War

How a Lafayette memorial turned a commute into a reckoning.

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Lafayette Reservoir

Where Water Works and Weekends Begin

A working reservoir that became one of Lafayette’s shared outdoor rooms.

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Reliez Valley

Where Reliez Valley’s Ghost Miners Go Missing

A local legend fades, and a truer Contra Costa history comes into view.

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Glenside Drive

What Haunts Glenside Drive

A ghost story whose clearest truth is the neighborhood that carries it.

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Lafayette Veterans Memorial Building

Whispers in Lafayette’s Veterans Hall

A memorial building where remembrance, community, and rumor share the same rooms.

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Lafayette Park Hotel & Spa

Ghost Stories in a Modern Hotel

How a suburban hotel became a home for modern hauntings.

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Lafayette Cemetery

What Really Haunts Lafayette Cemetery

A ghost legend meets the harder truth of local memory.

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Lafayette

Where Dave Brubeck Found His First Rhythm

A Northern California childhood helped shape a singular jazz voice.

HistoryMusicCulture
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Lafayette Reservoir

The Working Tower in the Middle of the Water

How a utility structure became part of Lafayette’s local identity.

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