Good-bye to Chuck's

A long standing restaurant on Placerville's Broadway has closed its doors.  Chuck's was a surviving road side stop from the days bef...

A Very Unusual Week

And now for a little historical fiction... It seemed a little warmer than it had been as I walked up Main Street, though Camino had seen som...

Homecoming 1983

None of us went to “Homecoming” our freshman year of El Dorado High School, but as sophomores, friends Jossette, Paul, Laura and I decided w...

Turning On the Light

One of the truly (and rather recently) famous citizens of Placerville was Thomas Kinkade, who emerged in the early 1980s with his detailed a...

Apple Hill

Although I have mentioned Apple Hill often in past articles, I would be remiss if I didn’t devote a chapter to that very unique phenomenon o...

From Downey to Disneyland

It was a dare, but the twelve-year-old boy was up to it.  His big brother aspired to be an actor and the Pasadena Playhouse of Pasadena, Cal...