Don Rogers: Legacy for a new era
It was Golden Era’s first Fourth of July in Nevada City, as well as mine. Steve Giardina, proprietor, made old-fashioned sodas at the bar that had been sailed around the Horn long ago. Hollie Grimaldi Flores and I set up at a plastic table on Broad Street that already hot morning for the parade. She would host and I would serve as clueless color commentator for the public TV predecessor to Nevada County Media. Fun morning, great old-timey sodas. My wife would come to love them. Steve told me about the history of the bar, and The Bar. His enthusiasm for the Golden Era, his sodas, for all ...
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