Letters to Uncle Gay

About Letters to Uncle Gay

Intimate, funny, and irresistibly vivid glimpses of 1940's Los Angeles. When a lively 25-year-old woman writes to her beloved uncle- only a few years older and serving overseas during World War II - nothing is off limits. In these real-life letters, she chronicles her days and nights in Los Angeles with charm, wit, flirtation, and a sparkling sense of adventure. Each episode features a letter read aloud revealing a time capsule of love, youth, and the human moments that persist - even in a world at war.

Publisher

Teri Mandemaker

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Dec 2025

Latest episode

7 May 2026

Latest episodes

25 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 May 2026

   Pat Meets Bob, Dec 8 1945

   Pat meets Bob for the first time! He just got discharged from the marines and he is one beautiful man! Pat and Bob got married in 1955, but it seems like their romance was long in the making.

2. 

   6 May 2026

   Cocoanut Grove, Nov 6 1945

   The Cocoanut Grove was a nightclub inside the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. A prominent blonde singer performing at the Cocoanut Grove was Martha Tilton known as the "Liltin' Miss Martha Tilton".

3. 

   5 May 2026

   Blue Monday, Oct 29 1945

   In this episode Pat reports about Wally's bad injury where he tore the tendons on his right arm on a broken bottle. Yuck! We also hear about dewy weather in Southern California.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

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