As you know, I am a fan of spicy food and will usually try anything once. However, I am not like those crazy folks on “Youtube” who are trying to prove something by eating a whole Ghost Pepper or even…
Author: Doug Noble
Steppin’ Out – Euro Bistro, Placerville
Every now and then a new restaurant goes unnoticed by me for a month or two, and then I spot it. That happened with this one, the Euro Bistro, which is located at 545 Main Street in Placerville, next to…
Charles Lincoln Wilson – The Sacramento Valley Railroad, Part V
By June, 1865 the Placerville & Sacramento Valley Railroad had only reached Shingle Springs and, although it is now connected to the main road that carried nearly all of the freight and passenger traffic to and from the silver mines…
Charles Lincoln Wilson – The Sacramento Valley Railroad, Part IV
The agreement to bring the railroad to Placerville happened just a few months after Leland Stanford, now Governor of California, had lifted the first shovelful of dirt to start the building of the Central Pacific Railroad east from Sacramento. Unfortunately,…