Pop Up Podcast

Pop Up Podcast is back! While Pop Up Podcast started out as a free after-school activity for teens. In our second season, we welcome participants of all ages. Pop Up Podcast is an opportunity to tell your story, to engage with audio recording technology and to explore your own self-expression. Much like Season 1 of Pop Up Podcast, Season 2 invites members of the Escondido community tell their story, using the underlying philosophy that what is the most personal is the most universal. Our first episode of the new season covers the Olmstead family. Morse Olmstead managed Security First National Bank, which opened in Escondido in 1929 on the corner of Grand Ave and Broadway St. (The photo above is of the second location at 201 West Grand Ave which was built in 1951.) This podcast was recorded at an event celebrating the installation of a bench in Kit Carson Park to commemorate Morse and his wife Ida Olmstead. The project was initiated by their son Dave Olmstead, who in this recording tells his personal story a