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Posted by: rs on 3/31/1998@21:07hrs:
In Reply to: Post a Joke you # it posted by: Old Timer on 3/31/1998@19:26hrs:
Ha...ha...ha...! So that's what you guys in Hangtown do when the river is too high to pan for the placers (that's nuggets to youse flatlanders). Gotta give those hillbillies more credit than I have...
Gotta say that one summer I came down from Lake Tahoe, where I was working at Harrah's Club, as a craps dealer, no less, because Placerville was having it's annual Wagon Train Day. The Wagon Train had started out from Reno, came over the hill (Tahoe, elevation 6400' or so, lake level) over the Donner pass (watch what you eat, especially in Winter), and then down to Hangtown. At least I think it was Donner Pass, could have been Echo Summit (elev. 7100' or so), and then down to Hangtown (same place as Placerville, but P-ville is the cleaned up version after the hanging). At any rate, I hitched a ride down and went to the party. The whole town turned out for it. Older ladies in dresses from the last century, the bars overflowing with drunks and their beer bottles, and a makeshift jail set up in front of the county court cum jail. If you weren't wearing a beard or half loaded, they put you in the hoosegow until you bailed yourself out with a small donation to the local charity. Then they had a big parade. I took lots of pitchers that day, kodachromes; the jazzmarching band from Hamilton AFB, the Chinese school, the wagons, horses, pioneers, and whatallnot. A great time, sober or not.
Placerville is home to the Hangtown Fry, a feature on many California menus; it's a fried omelette in which the main ingredient, after the haigs, is oysters. Served up with a load of well-done french fries. Never saw this anywhere else than Californy...
At any rate, O.T., I just thought I'd let the rest of the world know where the tide cast you and the Commodore up. If you can't live in San Fran, Hangtown ain't bad. -Faw Cawnahs