Huell Howser: Career in pictures

Howser shakes the hand of Comdr. John Biegel (ret.) at a Sunday brunch in the Officers’ Club of the now-closed Long Beach Naval Shipyard in 1996.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Huell Howser had been doing basically the same job since the 1970s. “You could tell me that I couldn’t go outside of a five-mile radius ... [and] there’s enough right within five miles to keep me busy the rest of my life,” he said. “Why are we looking so hard? It’s right under our noses.”  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)